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Oct 27, 2020 · Red Comet. vividly rewrites our understanding of Sylvia Plath. With Red Comet, Heather Clark had a clear mission in mind: to “rewrite the script on Sylvia Plath.”. A Harvard- and Oxford ...
Mar 2, 2021 · Please try again later. Heather Clark, whose 1,100-page biography of Sylvia Plath was published by Alfred A. Knopf and Jonathan Cape in October 2020, talks about her experience writing the life of an iconic figure who has been mythologized and pathologized for half a century. Clark spent eight years researching and writing her biography.
Oct 14, 2020 · Sylvia Plath is standing in her vegetable garden. It’s a warm summer evening in Devon. In her arms she holds a great bundle of loose papers. At her feet, a bonfire blazes. While her mother and her daughter watch from the kitchen, she tears up page after page of writing. Leaning over the bonfire, she sets the papers alight and watches them burn.
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Nov 13, 2020 · Hughes himself does not appear until midway through the book, giving Clark space to show how Plath’s worldview was shaped by the political horrors of the 1940s (the Holocaust and the Bomb) and ...
- Cordelia Jenkins
May 15, 2021 · Heather Clark is Professor of Contemporary Poetry and Director of the Centre for International Contemporary Poetry at the University of Huddersfield. She is the author of Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, which won the Biographers’ Club/Slightly Foxed Prize for Best First Biography, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the LA Times Book Prize ...
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Jan 11, 2021 · Jan 11, 202111:47 AM. Heather Clark. Carolyn Simpson. On this week’s episode of Working, Rumaan Alam spoke with writer and poetry professor Heather Clark about her new Sylvia Plath biography ...
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Dec 1, 2011 · The range of Clark's comparative approach is impressive here, reading Plath as a colonial subject through a series of metaphors provided by poems in The Birthday Letters. As Clark notes, reviewers of the time often co-opted Plath and Hughes's work into debates about male and female poetry, the competing claims of British and American verse, or the battle between gentility and the confessional ...
