#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl
This first line is from the first short story in this collection written by Sylvia Plath. This she wrote when she was 8. The start of this story also feels like a line from a poem and is a couple of paragraphs long with all the story ingredients. It‘s ending is wonderful and amused me.
@Eggs #majicmonday
for me it's winter trees, I also like them in summer but in winter there is much promise of what's to come
*contented sigh*
Always and forever, Sylvia
#bookshelf #collection #sylviaplath #womenwriters #letters
#PoetryMatters #Villa
my #currentread for #2024reads is the abdridged ed of Sylvia Plath's journal, for me all of Plath's writing is like reading poetry
pickSylvia Plath reading some of her poems and talking about her work. And it‘s wonderful how she reads them, I love her poetry that is full of stark, sharp imagery.
Extract from Candles by Sylvia Plath
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They are the last romantics, these candles:
Upside-down hearts of light tipping wax fingers,
And the fingers, taken in by their own haloes,
Grown milky, almost clear, like the bodies of saints.
#PoetryMatters #2024reads
Irresistible (to me ) finds at my favorite local used and rare bookstore. First editions to carefully curated reading copy paperbacks in this store.
#TreatYourself
