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...right takes a great deal of silence: also hearing nothing but one's own voice. Poetry exacts its measure of pain, but that is not to be confused with anguish. Anguish is what has obsessed many of our best-known "confessional poets," including Robert Lowell, John Berryman, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. They also expressed some joys, but in the end depression always tipped the balance. Lowell fought the dank beast throughout his life. Berryman, Plath and Sexton took their own lives when, as Rilke wrote in "The Song of the Suicide," the world's profusion entered...
...American women poets, volume she hopes will detail the social influences on women poets and examine their lives and poetry closely. Her lecture will focus on a theme that has fascinated women poets for years: the sanctuary. Walker will discuss Emily Dickinson, Sara Teasdale, Elinor Wylie and Sylvia Plath...
Swados calls upon Pablo Neruda, Sylvia Plath, Frank O'Hara, and others, including herself, to provide the words that fall in between the two Hikmet pieces. Often these sources point out the manner in which language not only expresses but also defines the way we treat each other...
...first book (and the new volume in the Yale Series of Younger Poets), Greek-born Olga Broumas, 27, displays both reckless energy and passion. Her subject is sexual love between women, and her allusions range from the classical goddesses through fairytale heroines to such contemporary poets as Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. The poems portray lesbianism as a brave new world, a terrain that women have been tricked (by themselves and men) into avoiding. To the uncertain, Broumas offers a refuge in eroticism...
...numerous articles from women all over the country. After reading the illiterate prose that dominates the book, Isuspect the bulk of the contributors are classmates in some rural Pennsylvania junior high school.) The articles are largely in parody form, including take-offs of Ms. Magazine, Mark Eden ads, Sylvia Plath and beauty magazines...