Ruben Antonyan
composer
This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary
The trees of the mind are black. The light is blue.
The grasses unload their griefs on my feet as if I were God
Prickling my ankles and murmuring of their humility
Fumy, spiritous mists inhabit this place.
Separated from my house by a row of headstones.
I simply cannot see where there is to get to.
The moon is no door. It is a face in its own right,
White as a knuckle and terribly upset.
It drags the sea after it like a dark crime; it is quiet
With the O-gape of complete despair. I live here.
Twice on Sunday, the bells startle the sky ----
Eight great tongues affirming the Resurrection
At the end, they soberly bong out their names.
The yew tree points up, it has a Gothic shape.
The eyes lift after it and find the moon.
The moon is my mother. She is not sweet like Mary.
Her blue garments unloose small bats and owls.
How I would like to believe in tenderness ----
The face of the effigy, gentled by candles,
Bending, on me in particular, its mild eyes.
I have fallen a long way. Clouds are flowering
Blue and mystical over the face of the stars
Inside the church, the saints will all be blue,
Floating on their delicate feet over the cold pews,
Their hands and faces stiff with holiness.
The moon sees nothing of this. She is bald and wild.
And the message of the yew tree is blackness - blackness
and silence.
The Moon And The Yew Tree
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
1932-1963
Short Biography
Sylvia Plath ( October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she studied at Smith College and Newnham College at the University of Cambridge, before receiving acclaim as a poet and writer. She married fellow poet Ted Hughes in 1956; they lived together in the United States and then England, and had two children, Frieda and Nicholas. Plath was clinically depressed for most of her adult life.She committed suicide in 1963.
Plath is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for her two published collections, The Colossus and Other Poems, and Ariel. In 1982, she won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for The Collected Poems. She also wrote The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her death.
Bibliographies
Sylvia Plath was one of the most written about authors of the 20th century. She has been the subject of many biographies, hundreds of dissertations, and thousands of articles and essays. Publication of works by Plath receive international attention.
Several full-length bibliographies have been compiled; the most useful to date being the 1987 Sylvia Plath: An Analytical Bibliography by Stephen Tabor.
Here are brief citations for the existing bibliographies:
Sylvia Plath: A Reference Guide, 1973-1988 by Sheryl Meyering (1990)
Sylvia Plath: An Analytical Bibliography by Stephen Tabor (1987)
Sylvia Plath: A Bibliography by Gary Lane and Maria Stevens (1978)
Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton: A Reference Guide by Cameron Northouse and Thomas P. Walsh (1974)
A Chronological Checklist of the Periodical Publications of Sylvia Plath by Eric Homberger (1970