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Literature Poetry Psychoanalysis

Hooking up with Sylvia Plath

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politics Psychoanalysis

American Dream or Nightmare?

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Penwith Poetry Psychoanalysis West Cornwall (and local history)

Thoughts on two different ways of losing control

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Book Reviews Literature Psychoanalysis

The Odd Woman and the City by Vivian Gornick

I have long wanted to try something by Vivian Gornick, the American writer and critic who started her career at the Village Voice in the late 1960s. Since then, Gornick’s work has appeared in various publications, including the New York Times, the Atlantic and the New York Review of Books, while in 2019, the New […]

The Odd Woman and the City by Vivian Gornick
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Art and Photographic History Psychoanalysis

Blue with Picasso

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Literature Poetry Psychoanalysis

Poetic Propositions

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Art and Photographic History Poetry Psychoanalysis

Mills, Memories and Melancholy

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Literature Poetry Psychoanalysis

Longfellow; Somewhat sad fellow

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Literature Poetry Psychoanalysis

Reading Benefits and Autism

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Classics Literature Poetry Psychoanalysis

The Drunken Boat

Patti Smith (Boat to Fire Island), Robert Mapplethorpe, circa 1971-74   LE BATEAU IVRE Comme je descendais des Fleuves impassibles, Je ne me sentis plus guidé par les haleurs : Des Peaux-Rouges criards les avaient pris pour cibles, Les ayant cloués nus aux poteaux de couleurs. J’étais insoucieux de tous les équipages, Porteur de blés […]

The Drunken Boat