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It has never been a secret that Sylvia Plath and her husband Ted Hughes dabbled in the occult and mysticism. Plath wrote of tarot cards, Ouija boards, astrology, crystal gazing, and much more. Hughes’ work has been widely explored in this light, yet in the fifty years since Plath’s death, no one thought to approach her work in this way.
In Fixed Stars Govern a Life: Decoding Sylvia Plath, volume one, author Julia Gordon-Bramer aligns Plath’s great poetry collection, Ariel, with the tarot and Qabalah opening it up to entirely new—and quite obvious meanings.
--Understand Plath’s Jewish imagery references the Qabalah (Kabbalah/Cabala), ancient Jewish mysticism
--Understand how Plath’s Holocaust, color, and chemical imagery connects to Jungian alchemy and shamanism
--Understand Plath’s concern for African-American, Native American, Women’s, and even LGBT’s civil rights, as well as her fear of the Cold War and nuclear annihilation and how she wove these themes into Ariel
--Appreciate the historical, scientific, and artistic correspondences that support Plath’s themes and thus “cast a spell” on the reader, resonating on all levels of consciousness to explain Sylvia Plath’s timelessness
This is volume one of Fixed Stars Govern a Life: Decoding Sylvia Plath, exploring the first 22 poems in Ariel: The Restored Edition, from “Morning Song” through to “The Courage of Shutting-Up,” as they reflect the tarot deck’s major arcana cards.
- Sales Rank: #810671 in Books
- Published on: 2015-01-06
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.77" h x .70" w x 7.43" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 408 pages
Review
“Like her beloved Yeats, Sylvia Plath was drawn to numerous and often contradictory systems of belief and ways of knowing, including mystical and magical systems. Julia Gordon-Bramer, in her dazzling and meticulously researched book, shows us how Sylvia Plath may have drawn upon the images of the tarot to fuse and merge the many ways of knowing she was so profoundly inspired by—myth, science, current events, folklore, alchemy, literature, motherhood, art and other sources to create the poems in Ariel, one of the great literary achievement of the 20th century. In doing so, Julia Gordon-Bramer illuminates, expands on, and asks profound questions about the very nature of making and creating poems.”—Catherine Bowman, winner of the Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award for Poetry, the Dobie Paisano Fellowship, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, four Yaddo Fellowships, and author of The Plath Cabinet (2009, Four Way), and other collections.
"A wonderful exploration of Plath's Ariel poems in relation to myth, symbol, and the creative process."—Kathleen Connors, author of Eye Rhymes: Sylvia Plath’s Art of the Visual (2007, Oxford University Press)
“Lucid and intriguing… what is valuable about Fixed Stars Govern a Life is that it is such a great source study with commentary on what Plath read, what was happening at the time of the poem, and more. "—Carl Rollyson, author of American Isis: the Life and Art of Sylvia Plath (2013, St. Martin’s Press)
About the Author
JULIA GORDON-BRAMER is an award-winning poet and prose writer, a professor of creative writing and humanities, and a professional tarot card reader. In 2013 she was voted St. Louis’ Best Local Poet by the Riverfront Times, and she is listed as one of St. Louis’ Top Ten Psychics. Julia received her Master of Fine Arts in both poetry and fiction from the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
A fresh perspective on Sylvia Plath
By Amazon Customer
I was able to snag a copy of this book at a Tarot workshop in Indianapolis a couple months ago. What an interesting book! Drawing from biographical sources and Plath’s own journals, Julia Gordon-Bramer uncovers the hidden links between Tarot/mysticism and Plath’s “Ariel” poems, bringing to light a facet of Plath's work that has received little, if any, attention until now. This book is packed with information, but none of it is extraneous. The analysis and discussion of Plath's poems from this perspective showcases a part of that famous author’s world that has been seldom-discussed by other Plath scholars, but which was obviously hugely influential in her writing. The many links pointed out by Gordon-Bramer are both uncanny and entertaining, and references to the Tarot and mysticism are clearly explained and should be easily understandable for those without prior knowledge of these subjects.
My only criticism is that the Ariel poems are not included in this book, which made it somewhat difficult to follow how Gordon-Bramer unpacks the poems and ties particular words and lines to the Tarot (I’m assuming it’s a licensing issue for the Plath poems). Aside from that, I would consider this a must-read for Plath lovers, as well as anyone with an interest in the Tarot or mysticism.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
(which is a fun play on words referencing Plath’s first poem
By Caleb
I thought this text tackled the very difficult subject material with grace and eloquence. I think it is important to read the first section titled “What set me going”, (which is a fun play on words referencing Plath’s first poem, and in a sense all of our first steps into reality (more on that later)) in order to fully grasp the type of text and type of person you are dealing with. The thing this section makes clear is that Julia is a very unique individual with a very unique skill set that allowed for these epiphanies to take place. You also get the sense that this book is going to be different than other academic texts. There are the usual elements: hours upon hours of research, citations, connections that can be traced with a clear paper trail. These elements are very passionately and professionally covered. Then there are the unusual elements: intuition, meditation, mysticism, etc. These are the elements that make some staunch academics uncomfortable. These are also the elements that make this book, and its author, thrive. The next section, “Author’s Notes on How to Read these Interpretations”, is also important because it lays out the way each chapter works. I think the organization of these chapters in integral in the understanding of the book, and one of the strongest stylistic choices. Each chapter begins with a picture of the corresponding Tarot card, and then is broken down into six “mirrors” of the poem. These mirrors are broken up in to definable sections, which is nice, but you also quickly realize that these sections bleed into one another in many ways, and she has set them up to be read in sequential order. The mirrors are as follows: Tarot/Qabalah, Alchemy, Mythology, History and the World, Astrology and Astronomy, Arts and Humanities. In sections such as: History and the World, or Arts and Humanities, you find many common elements you have come to expect from academic writing, and in many ways Gordon-Bramer is reusing a lot of the common ways that Plath has been read over the years in these sections. The thing that makes this book unique is the author’s experiences in Mysticism, Qabalah, Tarot, etc. This is where the new information is coming in, and she makes some very compelling arguments in this book. If you are worried that you have no idea about Mysticism, Qabalah, Tarot, etc., don’t be. The book does an excellent job of catching you up to speed on the important information, without bogging you down so much that you feel you have to study for hours before reading it. Honestly, as someone interested in the subject, I would have liked to study more, either by virtue of even more information from the author, or a suggestion of where to begin in the introduction. The language is easy to understand, and while the material is challenging, especially the Alchemy sections, she does a good job of making it accessible. If I had one con about the way these sections are written, and it’s not really a con to me at all, it’s that the author doesn’t fully explain her connections sometimes. She expects you to fill in the gaps sometimes, but I actually like this, and given the ambiguity of the subject material, I’m not sure at all that it’s not intentional and perfectly suited. One actual complaint I have about the book, and this is more due to my laziness than anything, is it relies on you having Plath’s poem right beside you as you are reading it. Instead of quoting pieces of Plath’s poetry, it will just say: “line 9” or something of that nature, which requires you to go back and count lines to see the reference. I feel like actual quotation of the lines referenced could be useful here and save a little time from having to flip back and forth between two books. Granted, this process would make the book exceptionally thicker I suppose. On that note, aesthetically I like the size of the book. It is large to seem like a text book, but not so overwhelming that I had trouble holding it in my hands while taking a hot bath. On the whole I would rate this book a 9/10 on enjoyability, freshness of material and perspective, ease of reading, and layout, with the only mark against it being the one I mentioned above.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
I think this book is great. It's a lot of information to take in
By Tiffany
I had a few bumps trying to get this book before my class started. Amazon didn't have it in stock, so I had to purchase it from the distributor who took longer than expected. Other than that, I think this book is great. It's a lot of information to take in, the explanations (mirrors) for one poem are a little lengthy, but vital to get a good grasp of the poem. The illustrations are fantastic, and it's apparent a lot of time and effort went into the quality of the book as well as the information within it.
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