Tag Archives: Sylvia Plath

Joan Didion: Conversations and Essays

Joan Didion: Essays and Conversations Edited by G. Friedman, 1984 Introduction: Play It As It Lays shows a preoccupation with existentialism. She examines the nothingness of the void as in Sartre and Camus—particularly The Myth of Sisyphus.  Kierkegaard She does … Continue reading

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Summer Reading For High School

Summer Reading For High School AP/Honors Class For 9th Grade   Wouldn’t Take Nothing For My Journey Now by Maya Angelou Go Ask Alice by Anonymous Ajeema and His Son by Richard Bradford The Good Earth by Pearl Buck Runs … Continue reading

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Journal, Diary and Memoir

May 7, 2015 Journal Is what I write considered a diary, a journal or a memoir? I pondered this question as I finished edits on Mono No Aware and continued typing up entries for Wings of Desire. I posed this … Continue reading

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Sylvia

June 16, 1996 Poetry Class Spring Quarter I took a poetry class. I really enjoyed it and I learned a lot too. I was exposed to great authors and poets and learned more about the ones I already knew about. … Continue reading

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The Pregnant Virgin

The Pregnant Virgin: A Process of Psychological Transformation by Marion Woodman came out in 1985.  I didn’t read it until 2010. I picked up her newer book Dancing in the Flames and then went back to read her other work … Continue reading

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Dark Nights Of The Soul

Dark Night of the Soul The Dark Night of the Soul by Thomas Moore came out in 2004.  It is based upon the ideas of St John of the Cross who was a Spanish Mystic and Poet.  His approach, as … Continue reading

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Passenger

April 27, 2004 Passenger     “Have you been the broken one, lying by the side of the road, waiting for a Good Samaritan, but no one has the time to ask, why are you bleeding?  And are you going far?” … Continue reading

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