Axe & Answered

"What do you mean she was a witch?": The Occult Sylvia Plath


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The American poet Sylvia Plath is known primarily for her confessional writings and committing suicide at age 30. But Tarot expert and reknowned Plath scholar Julia Gordon Bramer, author of the forthcoming book "The Occult Sylvia Plath" discovered that the late poet was obsessed with Kabbala, the occult, and Tarot, which heavily influenced her later work and continues to be overlooked by virtually every other literary scholar. In this episode, Ms. Bramer shares her research into the little-known mystical life of Sylvia Plath.

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Axe & AnsweredBy College of Liberal and Applied Arts - Stephen F. Austin State University