Word: didions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Came to Stay and Mary McCarthy's A Charmed Life introduced to a wide audience the intelligent, exacting female who assumes that all the best minds are androgynous and finds nothing but trouble as a result. Now the growing list includes Doris Lessing, Sylvia Plath, Joan Didion, Margaret Atwood, Marge Piercy, Cynthia Buchanan and Joyce Carol Gates...
Canada: there is geography in her poems, and by inference she builds a tension around her expatriation. She mentions Canada again in her "Two Campers in Cloud Country," a what-I-did-last-summer-vacation-poem; her "Sleep in the Mojave Desert" harks to Joan Didion's feelings for the deserts of Southern California. One poem "On Deck" opens with "Midnight in the Mid-Atlantic," and in several of her poems the landscapes are interchangeably Massachusetts, Wales, and Ireland. Of the last of these "Wuthering Heights," the most remarkable as a poem, betrays here ambivalence to the wilderness most strongly...
...film is based on a LIFE series by James Mills. Its fictional framework does not mesh well with its documentary approach. The screenplay, by Novelist Joan Didion and her husband, Journalist John Gregory Dunne, is disappointing; it never explains enough about the main characters. When a resolutely middle-class girl from Indiana winds up in New York turning tricks for smack, there should be more behind it than the mere suggestion of a repressive family situation. Of Bobby we know still less...
...already well known for her last poems, which are brilliant songs of self-destruction, the ne plus ultra of confessional verse. The Bell Jar is a marvelously unself-conscious confessional novel dashed off before such documents were in vogue. Now, however, it is as if the likes of Joan Didion have merely been sweeping the stage for Sylvia's ghostly comeback. Like the Lady Lazarus of her poem, she is a virtuoso of death. As she wrote: "You could say I have a call...
...poetry, The Colussus, was published in 1960; Ariel was published in 1965. and Uncollected Poems in 1965. Although her novel goes far towards explaining her poems, it is not an appendage; it stands on its own. Sylvia Plath's legend is as ruthless and as individualistic as Joan Didion's, But where Joan Didion's Play It As It Lavs describes nothing leading to no suicide, The Bell Jar describes every thing hilarious you and I have ever done leading to suicide. She never tells us there is nothing; she just informs us of the process of obliteration...