In which apply a line from T.S. Eliot’s “Waste Land” to this very blog and suddenly understand the project in a new way.
Tag Archives: Sylvia Plath
Blog Fragments Shored against My Ruins
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Bell Jar, Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Kate Atkinson, Moliere, T.S. Eliot, Waste Land Comments closed
Trump, a Kane-Type Narcissist
Citzen Kane, Trump’s favorite film, brilliantly captures a narcissist. Margaret Atwood and Sylvia Plath also have things to say about narcissism.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Daddy", Circe Mud Poems, Citizen Kane, Donald Trump, Margaret Atwood, narcissism, Orson Welles Comments closed
Poetry that Reclaims Women’s Bodies
A former student, in her senior project, used feminist poems as the basis for art workshops designed to help women feel better about their bodies.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Rising Venus", Adrienne Rich, eating disorders, Feminism, Kelly Cherry, Lucille Clifton, Self esteem, women's bodies Comments closed
Top 10 Hellish Child-Parent Relationships
Top 10 Literary Parent-Child Relationships from Hell.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "All that Rises Must Converge", "Daddy", "Letter to a Dead Father", Aeschylus, Brothers Karamazov, D. H. Lawrence, Euripides, Flannery O'Connor, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Hamlet, King Lear, Medea, Midsummer Night's Dream, Oedipus, Oresteia, parents and children, Phillip K. Roth, Portnoy's Complaint, Richard Shelton, Romeo and Juliet, Sons and Lovers, Sophocles, William Shakespeare Comments closed
Sex without Love
Sex without love, as Sharon Olds frames it, requires a fascistic narcissism.
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