SELECTED ESSAYS, INTERVIEWS, POETRY

Poetry published or forthcoming in: Janus Head, Nebula (3.1), Le Mot Juste, disClosure , Remembering Faces edition, Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal and in a Spuyten Duyvil edition.

Filmed interview for “Sleep in a Nest of Flames: The Worlds of Charles Henri Ford,”2000-2001, produced and directed by James Dowell and John Kolumvakis, Symbiosis Films, New York City

“Plathologies: The Blood Jet is Bucks, Not Poetry”, 10 th Anniversary Essay, Belles Lettres Vol. 10, no. 1 (Fall, 1995), pp.48-62; Reprinted as “Dead Letter File: The Selling and Selling Out of Sylvia Plath”, Small Press Magazine, (Winter, 1995) pp 32-44.

“‘Yes, no, peut-etre’: Caresse Crosby After The Black Sun Set”, A Living of Words: American Women in Print Culture , ed. by Susan Albertine (University of Tennessee Press, 1995), pp.207-227.

“‘…a love from back of the heart’: The Story Djuna Wrote for Charles Henri,” The Review of Contemporary Fiction Vol 13, no.3 (Fall, 1993), pp. 8-32.

Chapter on Djuna Barnes; The Gender of Modernism, ed. Bonnie Kime Scott (Indiana University Press, 1990) pp. 19-45.

“My Art Belongs to Daddy: Incest as Exile—The Textual Economics of Hayford Hall,” in Women’s Writing in Exile, co-edited with Angela Ingram (University of North Carolina, 1989), pp. 41-86.

“‘Enigmatic, Shifting My Clarities’: The Poetic Career of Sylvia Plath” in Ariel Ascending, ed. Paul Alexander (Harper & Row, 1985), pp. 80-93.

“Whiteman in the Woodpile: John Berryman’s Burnt Cork Poetic,”American Poetry, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Winter 1984), pp. 18-34.

“‘A Common and Acute Particularity’: The Radical Wisdom of Adrienne Rich,” Journal of Educational Thought (University of Calgary), Vol. 17, No. 2 (August, 1983), pp. 181-187

“Bohemia Bumps Into Calvin: The Deceptive Drama of Lillian Hellman,” The Southern Quarterly, Vol. XIX, No. 2 (Winter 1981), pp. 26-41; reprinted in Critical Essays on Lillian Hellman, ed. Mark Estrin, G.K. Hall, 1989

MLB, Deirdre and Fonta at the Old Oak, Cornell Plantations
MLB, Deirdre and Fonta at the Old Oak, Cornell Plantations

“Recovering the Complex Self: Sylvia Plath’s Beeline,” The Centennial Review, Vol. XXIV, No. 1 (Winter, 1980) pp. 1-24.

“A Subtle Psychic Bond: Sylvia and Aurelia Schober Plath in Letters Home,” in The Lost Tradition: Mothers and Daughters in Literature, Esther Broner and Cathy Davidson, (New York: Frederick Ungar, 1980) pp. 217-230

“‘Oh Dad, Poor Dad’: Another Look at Sylvia Plath’s ‘Daddy’” Notes on Contemporary Literature, Vol. IX, No. 4 (1979), pp. 2-4

“Demythologizing Sivvy: That ‘Theatrical Comeback in Broad Day’”, Poet and Critic, Vol. 10, No. 1 (1977) pp. 30-39