Lovey post, Leila. It prompted a return to reading Sylvia's, Mad Girl's Love Song. How beautiful is that poem as is the embossed page you created. At the risk of sounding poetic, the embossing is like the impression left by a loving heartbeat on a page that belongs to a much admired artist's work.
If you, Caroline and others are aiming to read a poem monthly, weekly or otherwise, may I recommend a couple others that, in my opinion, were emotionally stirring, dare I say, brilliant:
The Red Dress, by Myra Schneider and The Japanese Wife by Charles Bukowski. Contemporary Canadian poet, Evelyn Lau, also knocks them out of the ballpark. I think you'd like some of her themes.
I think I mentioned to you before that I’m reading a poem a day this year - well two of them this month have been about Sylvia Plath (though neither by her). One was called Against Extremism, which was very critical of her daring to be critical of the establishment in any way (wish I could remember the name of the dinosaur who wrote it). The other was called 11th February 1963 and was about the strange coincidence that this day marked the release of The Beatles ‘Abbey Road’ as well as the day Sylvia Plath took her own life. She seems to be making an appearance in my life in all sorts of ways at the moment so I will have to add some of her work to my tbr!
It’s funny how that happens, how are you get interested in something and then it keeps popping up everywhere. If haven’t read her novel The Bell Jar, I’d recommend it but you need to be in the right headspace. It can do your head in otherwise.
Lovey post, Leila. It prompted a return to reading Sylvia's, Mad Girl's Love Song. How beautiful is that poem as is the embossed page you created. At the risk of sounding poetic, the embossing is like the impression left by a loving heartbeat on a page that belongs to a much admired artist's work.
If you, Caroline and others are aiming to read a poem monthly, weekly or otherwise, may I recommend a couple others that, in my opinion, were emotionally stirring, dare I say, brilliant:
The Red Dress, by Myra Schneider and The Japanese Wife by Charles Bukowski. Contemporary Canadian poet, Evelyn Lau, also knocks them out of the ballpark. I think you'd like some of her themes.
Thank you for reminding me of Mad Girl's Love Song. Just re-read it a couple of times. Amazing.
Thanks for the recommendations, Arrigo. I don't either of those poems and I haven't heard of Evelyn Lau before. I'll let you know when I've read them.
I think I mentioned to you before that I’m reading a poem a day this year - well two of them this month have been about Sylvia Plath (though neither by her). One was called Against Extremism, which was very critical of her daring to be critical of the establishment in any way (wish I could remember the name of the dinosaur who wrote it). The other was called 11th February 1963 and was about the strange coincidence that this day marked the release of The Beatles ‘Abbey Road’ as well as the day Sylvia Plath took her own life. She seems to be making an appearance in my life in all sorts of ways at the moment so I will have to add some of her work to my tbr!
It’s funny how that happens, how are you get interested in something and then it keeps popping up everywhere. If haven’t read her novel The Bell Jar, I’d recommend it but you need to be in the right headspace. It can do your head in otherwise.