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Plath Profiles: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Sylvia Plath Studies, Jun 21, 2012
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Mystic Flu is a collection of poetry and short stories by Julia Gordon-Bramer. The poetry and pro... more Mystic Flu is a collection of poetry and short stories by Julia Gordon-Bramer. The poetry and prose of Mystic Flu turns its world inside-out: exploring themes of family, friends, and lovers turned to enemies, and predators; alcoholism and addiction; the subconscious ruling the conscious; the physical wrestling with the spiritual; and the road toward self-actualization in all its strangeness. The poetry in this work is predominantly free verse, confessional, yet embedded with spiritual imagery and double-meanings. The short stories of Mystic Flu are realistic, with thematic views from the skewed wisdom and fleeting innocence of the child’s experience, moving toward the definite unknowing and inevitable corruption of adulthood
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Plath Profiles: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Sylvia Plath Studies, 2015
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Plath Profiles: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Sylvia Plath Studies, Jun 21, 2010
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Plath Profiles: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Sylvia Plath Studies, May 24, 2019
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TAMSEN Poetry Blog of Bio-Poetics, 2016
Every serious poet eventually faces the daunting task of assembling a collection of work. Some gr... more Every serious poet eventually faces the daunting task of assembling a collection of work. Some group their work by theme, some by feeling. What does it take to assemble the perfect book of poetry? To create a flow and cohesive feeling for the reader? How does one tell a story that lifts the reader from one place to the other on a seamless, breathless ride through 40 poems? Sylvia Plath knew.
In my book, Fixed Stars Govern a Life: Decoding Sylvia Plath, vol. one (2014, Stephen F. Austin State University Press), I introduce Plath’s organizational system of aligning her poems in Ariel: The Restored Edition (2004, HarperCollins) with the tarot and Qabalah. In the introduction of my forthcoming FSGL volume two, I’ll discuss another poetic technique in Plath’s arsenal: Connecting one poem to the next through shared words and images.
Want to see for yourself? Grab your copy of Ariel and come along for the ride.
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TAMSEN Poetry Blog of Bio-Poetics, 2016
Every serious poet eventually faces the daunting task of assembling a collection of work. Some gr... more Every serious poet eventually faces the daunting task of assembling a collection of work. Some group their work by theme, some by feeling. What does it take to assemble the perfect book of poetry? To create a flow and cohesive feeling for the reader? How does one tell a story that lifts the reader from one place to the other on a seamless, breathless ride through 40 poems? Sylvia Plath knew.
In my book, Fixed Stars Govern a Life: Decoding Sylvia Plath, vol. one (2014, Stephen F. Austin State University Press), I introduce Plath’s organizational system of aligning her poems in Ariel: The Restored Edition (2004, HarperCollins) with the tarot and Qabalah. In the introduction of my forthcoming FSGL volume two, I’ll discuss another poetic technique in Plath’s arsenal: Connecting one poem to the next through shared words and images.
Want to see for yourself? Grab your copy of Ariel and come along for the ride.
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Plath Profiles: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Sylvia Plath Studies, 2015
Excerpt from forthcoming book reinterpreting Sylvia Plath's early poems. This article loo... more Excerpt from forthcoming book reinterpreting Sylvia Plath's early poems. This article looks at ten poems from Sylvia Plath's Collected Poems, organized in the year 1957 (although the dates are different, in some cases): "Mayflower", "The Everlasting Monday", "Hardcastle Crags", "The Thin People", "The Other Two", "Two Views of Withens", "The Great Carbuncle", "Words for a Nursery", "The Disquieting Muses", and "Night Shift".
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Plath Profiles: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Sylvia Plath Studies, 2003
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Plath Profiles: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Sylvia Plath Studies, 2014
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Plath Profiles: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Sylvia Plath Studies, 2010
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Literary scholars have long-identified references to alchemy, gnosticism, and forms of the occult... more Literary scholars have long-identified references to alchemy, gnosticism, and forms of the occult woven into the fiber of literature as old as Dante and Shakespeare. In fact, the word occult means hidden, and what better way to hide a spell than within the incantation of a prayer, hymn, or poem? In pre-common era South Asia, the word for poet, kavi, meant seer (Longman, 15). Jumping ahead centuries, one can see mysticism illuminating the work of the great Persian poet Rumi, the transcendentalism of Blake and Emerson, and the hermeticism of Yeats and Eliot, to name only a handful. Sylvia Plath, as well as her husband Ted Hughes, were probably known best for their tragic marriage and Plath's suicide. However, the couple was also widely acknowledged to have played with the occult, and scholars such as Keith Sagar, Dr. Ann Skea, and Ekbert Faas have found definite, intentional poetic structure and references to alchemy and hermeticism in Hughes' work, as well as Hughes' own ...
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A review of Edmund Wilson's 1931 book, Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 18... more A review of Edmund Wilson's 1931 book, Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930, as a gift to Sylvia Plath and how it affected Plath's understanding of Yeats,' Joyce's and Eliot's use of spirituality in literary technique.
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This article explores a book Sylvia Plath learned tarot and Qabalah from, The Painted Caravan: a ... more This article explores a book Sylvia Plath learned tarot and Qabalah from, The Painted Caravan: a penetration into the secrets of the tarot cards, by Basil Ivan Rákóczi. This is part of a series first posted on www.juliagordonbramer.com
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This article explores James Joyce's literary masterpiece, Finnegans Wake, and how it specifically... more This article explores James Joyce's literary masterpiece, Finnegans Wake, and how it specifically influenced the poet and writer Sylvia Plath. This is part of a series of posts summarizing and quoting from books that were important to, and I believe, shaped Sylvia Plath’s work, since the majority of Plath fans today have not read them. This was first posted on www.juliagordonbramer.com.
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A look at Joseph Campbell's A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake, a book owned and read by Sylvia Pla... more A look at Joseph Campbell's A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake, a book owned and read by Sylvia Plath in her formative years. This is part of a series summarizing and quoting from books that were important to, and I believe, shaped Sylvia Plath’s work, since the majority of Plath fans today have not read them. This was first posted on www.juliagordonbramer.com.
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Plath Profiles: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Sylvia Plath Studies, Jun 21, 2012
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Mystic Flu is a collection of poetry and short stories by Julia Gordon-Bramer. The poetry and pro... more Mystic Flu is a collection of poetry and short stories by Julia Gordon-Bramer. The poetry and prose of Mystic Flu turns its world inside-out: exploring themes of family, friends, and lovers turned to enemies, and predators; alcoholism and addiction; the subconscious ruling the conscious; the physical wrestling with the spiritual; and the road toward self-actualization in all its strangeness. The poetry in this work is predominantly free verse, confessional, yet embedded with spiritual imagery and double-meanings. The short stories of Mystic Flu are realistic, with thematic views from the skewed wisdom and fleeting innocence of the child’s experience, moving toward the definite unknowing and inevitable corruption of adulthood
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Plath Profiles: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Sylvia Plath Studies, 2015
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Plath Profiles: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Sylvia Plath Studies, Jun 21, 2010
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Plath Profiles: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Sylvia Plath Studies, May 24, 2019
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TAMSEN Poetry Blog of Bio-Poetics, 2016
Every serious poet eventually faces the daunting task of assembling a collection of work. Some gr... more Every serious poet eventually faces the daunting task of assembling a collection of work. Some group their work by theme, some by feeling. What does it take to assemble the perfect book of poetry? To create a flow and cohesive feeling for the reader? How does one tell a story that lifts the reader from one place to the other on a seamless, breathless ride through 40 poems? Sylvia Plath knew.
In my book, Fixed Stars Govern a Life: Decoding Sylvia Plath, vol. one (2014, Stephen F. Austin State University Press), I introduce Plath’s organizational system of aligning her poems in Ariel: The Restored Edition (2004, HarperCollins) with the tarot and Qabalah. In the introduction of my forthcoming FSGL volume two, I’ll discuss another poetic technique in Plath’s arsenal: Connecting one poem to the next through shared words and images.
Want to see for yourself? Grab your copy of Ariel and come along for the ride.
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TAMSEN Poetry Blog of Bio-Poetics, 2016
Every serious poet eventually faces the daunting task of assembling a collection of work. Some gr... more Every serious poet eventually faces the daunting task of assembling a collection of work. Some group their work by theme, some by feeling. What does it take to assemble the perfect book of poetry? To create a flow and cohesive feeling for the reader? How does one tell a story that lifts the reader from one place to the other on a seamless, breathless ride through 40 poems? Sylvia Plath knew.
In my book, Fixed Stars Govern a Life: Decoding Sylvia Plath, vol. one (2014, Stephen F. Austin State University Press), I introduce Plath’s organizational system of aligning her poems in Ariel: The Restored Edition (2004, HarperCollins) with the tarot and Qabalah. In the introduction of my forthcoming FSGL volume two, I’ll discuss another poetic technique in Plath’s arsenal: Connecting one poem to the next through shared words and images.
Want to see for yourself? Grab your copy of Ariel and come along for the ride.
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Plath Profiles: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Sylvia Plath Studies, 2015
Excerpt from forthcoming book reinterpreting Sylvia Plath's early poems. This article loo... more Excerpt from forthcoming book reinterpreting Sylvia Plath's early poems. This article looks at ten poems from Sylvia Plath's Collected Poems, organized in the year 1957 (although the dates are different, in some cases): "Mayflower", "The Everlasting Monday", "Hardcastle Crags", "The Thin People", "The Other Two", "Two Views of Withens", "The Great Carbuncle", "Words for a Nursery", "The Disquieting Muses", and "Night Shift".
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Plath Profiles: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Sylvia Plath Studies, 2003
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Plath Profiles: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Sylvia Plath Studies, 2014
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Plath Profiles: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Sylvia Plath Studies, 2010
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Literary scholars have long-identified references to alchemy, gnosticism, and forms of the occult... more Literary scholars have long-identified references to alchemy, gnosticism, and forms of the occult woven into the fiber of literature as old as Dante and Shakespeare. In fact, the word occult means hidden, and what better way to hide a spell than within the incantation of a prayer, hymn, or poem? In pre-common era South Asia, the word for poet, kavi, meant seer (Longman, 15). Jumping ahead centuries, one can see mysticism illuminating the work of the great Persian poet Rumi, the transcendentalism of Blake and Emerson, and the hermeticism of Yeats and Eliot, to name only a handful. Sylvia Plath, as well as her husband Ted Hughes, were probably known best for their tragic marriage and Plath's suicide. However, the couple was also widely acknowledged to have played with the occult, and scholars such as Keith Sagar, Dr. Ann Skea, and Ekbert Faas have found definite, intentional poetic structure and references to alchemy and hermeticism in Hughes' work, as well as Hughes' own ...
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A review of Edmund Wilson's 1931 book, Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 18... more A review of Edmund Wilson's 1931 book, Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930, as a gift to Sylvia Plath and how it affected Plath's understanding of Yeats,' Joyce's and Eliot's use of spirituality in literary technique.
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This article explores a book Sylvia Plath learned tarot and Qabalah from, The Painted Caravan: a ... more This article explores a book Sylvia Plath learned tarot and Qabalah from, The Painted Caravan: a penetration into the secrets of the tarot cards, by Basil Ivan Rákóczi. This is part of a series first posted on www.juliagordonbramer.com
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This article explores James Joyce's literary masterpiece, Finnegans Wake, and how it specifically... more This article explores James Joyce's literary masterpiece, Finnegans Wake, and how it specifically influenced the poet and writer Sylvia Plath. This is part of a series of posts summarizing and quoting from books that were important to, and I believe, shaped Sylvia Plath’s work, since the majority of Plath fans today have not read them. This was first posted on www.juliagordonbramer.com.
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A look at Joseph Campbell's A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake, a book owned and read by Sylvia Pla... more A look at Joseph Campbell's A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake, a book owned and read by Sylvia Plath in her formative years. This is part of a series summarizing and quoting from books that were important to, and I believe, shaped Sylvia Plath’s work, since the majority of Plath fans today have not read them. This was first posted on www.juliagordonbramer.com.
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The American Journal of Poetry, 2016
An article published in 2016 in the American Journal of Poetry, exploring Sylvia Plath's multiple... more An article published in 2016 in the American Journal of Poetry, exploring Sylvia Plath's multiple layers of meaning in her poem, "Morning Song."
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The writer Louisa May Alcott shaped Sylvia Plath in many ways and Plath saw herself and her famil... more The writer Louisa May Alcott shaped Sylvia Plath in many ways and Plath saw herself and her family mirrored back to her in Alcott's work, which she had read since she was a young girl. See the fascinating parallels between Plath's real life and Alcott's fiction, as well as all Plath and Alcott had in common.
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A poem by Julia Gordon-Bramer, published in Indiana University's Plath Profiles 8. December, 2015.
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2015, Stephen F. Austin State University Press. Click to purchase or request a review copy.
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Fixed Stars Govern a Life: Decoding Sylvia Plath, volume one, Jul 15, 2014
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Presentation for the National Association of Native-American Studies Conference, February 12, 201... more Presentation for the National Association of Native-American Studies Conference, February 12, 2016, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Material excerpted from Fixed Stars Govern a Life: Decoding Sylvia Plath, vol. one, by Julia Gordon-Bramer (2014, Stephen F. Austin State University Press).
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This is the presentation of slides presented at the National Association of African-American Stud... more This is the presentation of slides presented at the National Association of African-American Studies Conference, February 2016 in Baton Rouge, LA. The paper accompanying these slides is "Sylvia Plath's Hidden Civil Rights Issues", first presented in 2013 at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Please download PPT presentation to read notes.
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Objects of Our Desire, 2014
"The Dress" is an original poem by Julia Gordon-Bramer, first published in the "From the Depths" ... more "The Dress" is an original poem by Julia Gordon-Bramer, first published in the "From the Depths" issue of the Objects of Our Desire web journal, Summer 2014
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MARGIE: The American Journal of Poetry, 2008
The original poem, "Photo Resolution," by Julia Gordon-Bramer, was first published with the title... more The original poem, "Photo Resolution," by Julia Gordon-Bramer, was first published with the title "Daddy, II" in MARGIE: The American Journal of Poetry, volume seven, 2008. It was nominated for the St. Louis Poetry Center's Stanley Hanks Award in 2009.
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Stymie Magazine, 2013
"Scrabble Ethics" by Julia Gordon-Bramer was first published by Stymie Magazine, June 2013
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Review of "The Detective: Sylvia Plath's Tribute to Holmes and the Whodunit" by Mark Doyle, for T... more Review of "The Detective: Sylvia Plath's Tribute to Holmes and the Whodunit" by Mark Doyle, for The Passengers' Log, the Journal of The Sydney Sherlock Holmes Society, 'The Sydney Passengers'. (c) 6 January, 2017. Vol. 20 No. 2. ISSN 1440-6152. Reprinted with permission.
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Weblink above to my essay on Sylvia Plath's poem, "Morning Song," published in May 2016 in The Am... more Weblink above to my essay on Sylvia Plath's poem, "Morning Song," published in May 2016 in The American Journal of Poetry. I explore Plath's connections with the then-new element of Lawrencium, Huxley's Brave New World, Shakespeare's Tempest & A Midsummer Night's Dream, and the mysterious intoxicant of Soma.
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The word Poetomachia is, as defined by Merriam-Webster, " a contest of poets; specifically: a lit... more The word Poetomachia is, as defined by Merriam-Webster, " a contest of poets; specifically: a literary quarrel involving a number of Elizabethan dramatists. " That Elizabethan detail is important. What they're saying is that the Western viewpoint controls the whole she-bang. But as the adage goes, " the pen is mightier than the sword, " and for generations, there has been a war of words by playwrights to give the oppressed a voice and to make the world a better place. The Indigenous Voice of Poetomachia is twelve essays and two interviews, exploring various regions of the world where voices in drama and literature have been suppressed. This book was created to fill the gap of post-colonial dramatic theory, as for centuries, the West has told indigenous and third-world cultures who and what they are, dictating their future and demonizing their past. The book spans regions in Africa, Ireland, Japan, and India, exploring readings of plays which are out of the mainstream of the average graduate student or Ph.D. candidate. Some are obscure, but all offer different possibilities for dramatic reading. As the Expert's Note tells us in the beginning, the idea is that the only uncensored truth is for one to write one's own stories. The re-telling of a sample of these stories is one of the goals of this four-part book. Section One of The Indigenous Voice of Poetomachia introduces indigenous theater. These enactments beyond the stage included religious rites, poetic songs, oral storytelling traditions and ancient aboriginal theater. These dramas have all been performed over the ages without much (or any) written text or stage construction, in common community spaces. The book presents the western view of theater as a 16 th Century development, led by Shakespeare and the Christian Passion Plays. They do not discuss the influence of the Ancient Greeks here, still clearly Western and forever relevant. But that would probably be another thousand pages. It is the editors' premise that traditional Indian forms of performance have been repressed by the West and in fact have " centrifugal power " to activate our historical and theoretical imaginations, to understand what performance used to be and its future potential to create intellectual change. The British post-colonial view of what defines art and aesthetics have long ignored, if not erased, much Indian ritualistic drama, such as the celebration of death anniversary of Sufi saints. The first essay explores the British censorship in Bengal. After colonialization, anti-British themes and nationalism began appearing in theater, which has always been a voice for staging resistance and stirring public opinion.
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