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Adams also played several selections from his second solo album, Gold, including “When The Stars Go Blue,” recently covered by the Corrs and Bono, and the elegiac “Sylvia Plath.” Since Gold tends toward heavy production quality that is sometimes at odds with Adams’ rough-grained vocals, the solo live versions of these songs were refreshingly honest and vital. Adams also played an imaginative cover of the Rolling Stones’ “Brown Sugar,” and finished the set with a sedate...
...Sylvia Plath with the ego of Madonna,” was how the New York Times Book Review described her at that point. Despite its autobiographical cast, Prozac Nation was universalized into a cultural moment, packaged as a symbol and embraced into a canon of disaffected Gen-X plaints. The book has since been adapted into a film starring Christina Ricci and will be released by Miramax...
Later, I discovered a few white poets that I liked: William Shakespeare, Sylvia Plath, Wallace Stevens. I had just started college at San Jose State, and I went to a poetry reading by Robert Bly. Toward the end, just when I was so bored I thought I was going to shoot my brains out, he started reading these García-Lorca translations, and all of the sudden I perked up. So I went out and bought several García-Lorca books. Later I discovered Gertrude Stein and read her a great deal. Then it was the Black Mountain...
...frightening, painful seizures. Electricity worked faster, but the pain of uncontrolled convulsions remained. Patients fractured their spine, bit their tongue, broke bones. Consequently, the devils who ran some asylums used electroshock as punishment. In many circles, it retains a frisson of barbarity. Writers such as Ernest Hemingway and Sylvia Plath reinforced the image. "It was a brilliant cure," Hemingway wrote sarcastically in the days after his electroshock and before shooting himself, "but we lost the patient...
Like she did in her best-selling book Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide, Jamison interspersed her talk with quotes from authors and poets, including F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sylvia Plath, who suffered from mental illness...