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Surprise: Plath Profiles 6 Published!

Surprise!  

Plath Profiles 6
 (Summer 2013) is now live online. The table of contents is as follows:

Special Features
Medicine in Sylvia Plath's October Poems by Tracy Brain

These Ghostly Archives 5: Reanimating the Past by Gail Crowther and Peter K. Steinberg

Light Borrowing by David Trinidad

Essays and Poetry from the Sylvia Plath 2012 Symspoium
An introduction to "The Boston Trio": Sylvia Plath with Robert Lowell and Anne Sexton by Sarah-Jane Burton

When Ariel Found Mercy Street: The Influence of Anne Sexton on Sylvia Plath's Poetry by Katherine Rose Keenan

"Something in me said, now, you must see this": Reconciliation of Death and "the empty benches of memory" in Sylvia Plath's "Berck-Plage" by Maeve O'Brien

"An efficiency, a great beauty": Sylvia Plath's Ariel Titles by Rai Peterson

"She has folded them back": Incorporation and The Maternal Imagination by Catherine Leigh Reeves

A Cognitive Metaphor Approach to Analysing Potentially Schema-Refreshing Metaphors in Sylvia Plath's "Lady Lazarus" by Amita J. Sanghvi

Lilly Library by Susan McMichael

Sylvia Plath Symposium 2012 by Gabriela Ramirez-Chavez


Essays
"O love, how did you get here?": The Presence of Questions in Sylvia Plath's Ariel by Chloe Honum

"A wind of such violence / Will tolerate no bystanding": Sylvia Plath, Ariel, and Mental Illness by Matthew Cronin

A Word with Many Edges: Sylvia Plath's Nomenclature for the Collection Ariel by Azadeh Feridounpour

The Drama of Confession: Orchestration of Emotion and Self-Disclosure in Ariel by Suzanne Richter

The Courage of Not Shutting Up by Adrianne Kalfopoulou

The Smoke and Mirrors of "The Couriers" by Julia Gordon-Bramer

Bee-ing There: The Existential Influence in Sylvia Plath's "Bee Poems" by Ashley McFarland

Bald Glyphs & Psychic Maps: An Examination of Sylvia Plath's "Sheep in Fog" by Rehan Qayoom

A Sociological Approach to Death wish in The Bell Jar by Akhtar Jamal Khan and Bibhudutt Dash

"Funny and Tender and Not a Desperate Woman:" Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, and Therapeutic Laughter by Andrea Krafft

Little Smiling Hooks by Bonnie Bolling

Refiguring Women: Metaphor, Metonymy, and Identity in Plath's Confessional Poetry by Whiney Naylor-Smith

The Confession of Love, Loss and Anger in Sylvia Plath's Poetry by Christina Pipos

The "Dead Mother" Effect on a Daughter, Sylvia Plath by Susan E. Schwartz, Ph.D.

The Valor of My Tongue: Plath and Shakespeare by Baron Wormser

The Right Mind of Sylvia Plath: Magic, Myth and Metamorphosis by Carole Brooks Platt, Ph.D.

What Sylvia Plath Means to Me by Thomas Howard

Subject Sylvia by Meghan O'Rourke

from Art and Alchemy: On Creative Writing and Reading by Kate Braverman


Creative Writing
The Everlasting Monday by Megeen R. Mulholland, Ph.D.

Three Poems by Alessandra Bava

Perdita by Azadeh Feridounpour

A Bell Jar Lexicon by Anne Gorrick

August in Northampton by Jaime Jost

Your Lost Pine by Thomas Howard

The Plath Not Taken by Gabriela Ramirez-Chavez


Art
Sylvia Plath's Eternal Buzz in the Sky by Kristina Zimbakova

For Sivvy by Tony Cockayne

Choice by Gabrielle Reeves


Reviews
Review of Janet Badia, Sylvia Plath and the Mythology of Women Readers by Anna Creadick

Review of Elizabeth Winder, Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953 by Katherine Rose Keenan

Recent Sylvia Plath Biographies by Maeve O'Brien

Bee-Stung in October by Diann Blakely


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American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath by Carl Rollyson

Mad Girl's Lover Song: Sylvia Plath and Life Before Ted by Andrew Wilson

Claiming Sylvia Plath: The Poet as Exemplary Figure by Marianne Egeland

Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953 by Elizabeth Winder

Thanks and congratulations to all the contributors! As you may remember from my 1 March post, with the publication of this volume I will no longer be involved with Plath Profiles. "It's time to wave goodbye now." If you need me, I "caught a ride with the moon" and will be hanging out with the dream king.

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