The blood jet is poetry, There is no stopping it. You hand me two children, two roses. I found this quote again yesterday. Back in college, these were my favorite lines from Sylvia Plath, though I didn’t understand the children and roses part (on any level beyond the symbolic). The “blood jet” spoke to me [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Sylvia Plath'
HAVING TEA WITH SYLVIA PLATH
November 7th, 2011 2 Comments
Tags: Creativity · Elisabeth Badinter · motherhood · poetry · Sylvia Plath · Who Does She Think She Is
Are You a Morning Person?
July 5th, 2010 No Comments
I’ve never considered myself a morning person, but motherhood has made me one. I am now useless after 9 pm, but if I get about six hours of solid sleep, I can wake up energized and eager for projects (provided the sun is shining). Today is supposedly a holiday, a day for schmoozing and sleeping [...]
Tags: motherhood · Productivity · Sylvia Plath
Magentic Poetry for Mothers
July 2nd, 2010 1 Comment
I’m vacuuming the kitchen floor when I see the word “WOMB” staring up at me amidst the cereal scum. It’s a piece of the “MOTHERHOOD MAGNETIC POETRY KIT” that I got for Christmas. The kit should have been a great fit, since I’m a mother and a (former) poet. But somehow I haven’t been inspired [...]
Tags: magnetic poetry · motherhood · Sylvia Plath
Who Does She Think She Is
April 20th, 2009 2 Comments
What’s the best movie you’ve seen in the past year? For me, it wasn’t Slumdog Millionaire, which was riveting but shocked me with its gruesome child torture scenes. My husband and I went to Slumdog on a rare date night and for some reason were expecting a light comedy– we nearly walked out. Instead, I [...]
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