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[1973], Harper's Magazine Press Call No: 811 S822c Edition: [1st ed.] Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2007., Trinity University Press Call No: 814.54 P444p Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Poet Lucia Perillo, who once worked as a park ranger and was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in her thirties, confronts the ironies of going from an outdoors person to someone who can no longer walk. Among other topics, these essays explore how poetry provides an alternative means of accessing nature"--Provided by publisher.
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By Smith, Pattic2010., Ecco Call No: Bio S656j Edition: 1st Ecco pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: An artist and musician recounts her romance, lifetime friendship, and shared love of art with Robert Mapplethorpe, in a memoir that includes such influential artists as Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, and William Burroughs.
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1995., Anchor Books Call No: Bio P4382n Edition: 1st Anchor Books ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2020., Penguin Random House Canada Call No: Bio C592r Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: An engrossing new biography of Sylvia Plath focuses on her remarkable literary and intellectual growth and achievement, restoring the vivid creative woman behind the longtime Plath myths perpetuated by a pathology-based approach to her life and art. With a wealth of never-before-accessed materials, Heather Clark here brings to life the brilliant daughter of Wellesley, MA who had poetic ambition from a very young age, and was an accomplished, published writer of poems and stories before she became the star English student at Smith College. Determined not to read Plath's work as if her every act, from childhood on, was a harbinger of her tragic fate, Clark presents new materials about Plath's scientist father, her juvenile writings, and her psychiatric treatment, and evokes a culture in transition in the mid-twentieth century, in the shadow of the atom bomb and the Holocaust, as she explores Sylvia's world: her early relationships and determination not to become a conventional woman and wife; her conflicted ties to her well-meaning, widowed mother; her troubles at the hands of an unenlightened mental health industry; her Cambridge years and thunderclap meeting with Ted Hughes, a marriage of true minds that would change the course of poetry in English; and much more. Clark's clear-eyed sympathy for Hughes, his lover Assia Wevill, and other demonized players in the arena of Plath's suicide promotes a deeper understanding of her final days, with their outpouring of first-rate poems. Along with illuminating readings of the poems themselves, Clark's meticulous, compassionate research brings us closer than ever to the spirited woman and visionary artist who blazed a trail that still lights the way for women poets the world over.
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By Smith, Patti2019., Adult, Alfred A. Knopf Call No: Bio S656y Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: From the National Book Award-winning author of 'Just Kids' and 'M Train' comes a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year.
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By Smith, Patti2019., Knopf Canada Edition: eBook ed. Connect to this eBook title Summary Note: Following a run of New Year's concerts at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself tramping the coast of Santa Cruz, about to embark on a year of solitary wandering. Unfettered by logic or time, she draws us into her private wonderland with no design, yet heeding signs—including a talking sign that looms above her, prodding and sparring like the Cheshire Cat. In February, a surreal lunar year begins, bringing with it unexpected turns, heightened mischief, and inescapable sorrow. In a stranger's words, "Anything is possible: after all, it's the Year of the Monkey." For Smith—inveterately curious, always exploring, tracking thoughts, writing—the year evolves as one of reckoning with the changes in life's gyre: with loss, aging, and a dramatic shift in the political landscape of America. Smith melds the western landscape with her own dreamscape. Taking us from California to the Arizona desert; to a Kentucky farm as the amanuensis of a friend in crisis; to the hospital room of a valued mentor; and by turns to remembered and imagined places, this haunting memoir blends fact and fiction with poetic mastery. The unexpected happens; grief and disillusionment set in. But as Smith heads toward a new decade in her own life, she offers this balm to the reader: her wisdom, wit, gimlet eye, and above all, a rugged hope for a better world. Riveting, elegant, often humorous, illustrated by Smith's signature Polaroids, Year of the Monkey is a moving and original work, a touchstone for our turbulent times.
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