versions of sacred truth. Just as she revises the Bible, she offers new interpretations of Persephone, ... transitional; even her experiments with myth seem to offer no solid assurance of stability. Hope is generally ... Page 259 from Issue 80 knows the impossibility of undoing, history. In "Reading the Bible ...

Plath's sense of personal failure. She had no way of knowing to what extent the extremes of her experience ... Page 231 from Issue 80 the birth of her second child, with a probable further disruption follow­ ... result of her own psychological inade­ quacy. The insights offered her by psychoanalysis and her study of ...

Page 221 from Issue 80 "Dawn Poems in Blood": Sylvia Plath and PMS Catherine ... agree that Plath was in some way imprisoned in a self-limiting vision from which she was struggling to ... escape. The purpose of this essay is to offer a biochemical explanation for that imprisonment- an ...

Page 238 from Issue 80 also a sacrificial death, and the poem presents the paradox of menstrua­ ... I Hooks-/ / Black sweet blood mouthfuls." "Ariel" is a good example of the way ... menstrua­ tion functioned for Plath as both a determining life experience and an emblem of the tension ...

Page 87 from Issue 80 As wood burns the years of sunlight packed into its grain until the burning, ... city's cold pavements-the trees fenced off into a few distant green spots on the map. The neatly spaced ... for the sight of leaves, a whiff of their green scent on the air- the way that, when the maples, ...