'Three-Martini Afternoons At The Ritz' by Dr. Gail Crowther
May 29, 2021 21:28:40 GMT
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Post by petrolino on May 29, 2021 21:28:40 GMT
'Three-Martini Afternoons At The Ritz : The Rebellion Of Sylvia Plath & Anne Sexton' (2021) is a new book by Doctor Gail Crowther, author of 'The Haunted Reader And Sylvia Plath' (2017). It's about the respect, rivalry and relationship between two of my favourite American poets, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton; their poems influenced my way of thinking about the world.
I'll have to pick up a copy of this book somewhere down the line and give it a read.
"I think Sylvia Plath herself and those who read her and become attached to her, have had a very rough time indeed. The fact that the expression the ‘Cult of Plath’ is used says it all really. I do think in recent years a revision is taking place and hopefully Plath will emerge from this as a more rounded cultural figure. Certainly the publication of her Letters over the next year or so will make a massive difference to how she is understood. Her voices in those letters are astonishing – multiple, playful, serious, anguished, hilarious, teasing, passionate, stroppy. Once Plath becomes fully recognised for the woman she was, I think (hope) this positivity will transfer to her readers too."
- Dr. Gail Crowther speaking in 2017, Mademoisellewomen.com
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