plum
pesto
chocolate
bumblebee
pea 'n' parsnip
NEW! cherry INTPOWRIMO flavour
['cos everyone's blood is red and everyone's teeth {for those who have 'em} are white]
Plus last year's classic:
Let Maureen 'Baby-Eating Monster' Thorson know you're keen to write a poem a day for a month [see the Wed, 21 March 07 entry]!
Another letter from Anne Sexton to a Brother Dennis Farrell, dated 16 July 1962 [p145 in my edition]:
Once, this fall, I recorded a radio program I was on ... it was taped at the station and on the air two days later so I thought I'd record it. All quite funny because, of course, I had three matinis with another poet at the Howard Johnson's next to the station before we did the tape. We were four, who were supposed to discuss something (they never defined it) about poetry. The moderator started with a long question (five minutes worth) and then said "And, Miss Sexton, what do YOU think about the state of modern poetry" ... which caught me unawares as I didn't know he was even asking a question and in fact I hadn't been listening too accurately to him ... so I said (it's on the tape) "Well, Mr Morgan (or whatever his name was) the state of modern FOETRY ... I mean poetry..." now, around Boston, poets greet me with a question about the state of modern foetry!!I like Sexton's letters. So gossippy and full of interesting details that verges on prurient titillation, while giving another glimpse of her public/private face, something which a lot of the Plath canonical materials lack, I think. The latter poet tends to be very sober and straitlaced. Where one gets a sense of Sexton's mania, enthusiasms and depression from her letters, by way of contrast, Plath's Sivvy letters to her mother were a controlled mask she put on to please, playing the role of the high-achieving, dutiful daughter. Still, all very interesting to me, anyway. Perhaps there needs to be a collection of Plath letters, too.
