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Bibliography of Plath Biofiction


Sylvia Plath has been the subject of numerous poems, plays, musical, fictional, and other creations - or representations. The following list of creations (or re-creations) of Sylvia Plath was compiled by Annika J. Hagström, myself, and others. If there are any additions, please email them to me. Thank you.

Novels
Altschul, Andrew Foster. 2008. Lady Lazarus. Orlando: Harcourt.

Anderson, Robert. 2005. Little fugue. New York: Ballantine Books.

Fforde, Jasper. 2003. The well of lost plots. New York: Penguin Books.

Fromberg Schaeffer, Susan. 2006. Poison. New York: W.W. Norton.

Johnston, Christopher. 2003. Sylvia Plath Was murdered by the murder of crows in my head. Imprint Books.

Moses, Kate. 2003. Wintering. London: Hodder and Stoughton.

Skugge, Linda. 2006. Ett tal till min systers bröllop. Stockholm: Piratförlaget.

Tennant, Emma. 2001. Sylvia and Ted: A novel. New York: Henry Holt.

Weldon, Fay. 1971. Down among the women. Harmondsworth: Penguin.


Plays
Alexander, Paul. 2003. Edge.

Anthony, Edward. 2007. Wish I had a Sylvia Plath.

Brooker, Blake. 2008. Sylvia Plath must not die.

Freed, Amy. 1999. The psychic life of savages. Plays from Woolly Mammoth. Eds. Robert Alexander and Michael Kyrioglou. New York: Broadway Play Publishing.

Jelinek, Elfriede. 2002. Prinzessinnendramen. (Der Tod und das Mädchen I – V).

Kyle, Barry. 1976. Sylvia Plath: A dramatic portrait. London: Faber and Faber.

Leiman Goldemberg, Rose. 1979. Letters home. New York: Samuel French.

Lindley, Peter. 2008. Golden Lads and Lasses Must.

Richardson, Susan. 2000. Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath: Two of me now: A poetic drama. The Bloomsbury heritage series, 25. London: Cecil Woolf.

Tammany, Susan. 1999. Hecate's cave.

Thomason, Jane. 1989. Sylvia. London.

Washington Theatre Club, Janet Gardner, Kayla Kazahn Zalk, and Etain O'Malley. 1973. A Difficult borning: a dramatization compiled from the prose and poetry of Sylvia Plath. Washington, D.C.?: s.n.

Yasrebi, Christa. Sylvia Plath.


Poetry  (Individual poems and collections)
Ackerman, Diane. 1985. "On looking into Sylvia Plath's copy of Goethe's Faust." Parnassus.

Ackerman, Diane, and Enid Mark. 1996. About Sylvia. Wallingford, Pa: ELM Press.

Alexander, Elizabeth. 2001. "The female seer will burn upon this pyre". Antebellum Dream Book. Saint Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press.

Alvarez, Ivy. 2008. "She loves the glassy blue." Court Green 5. 150-1.

Aspenström, Werner. 1983. "Färg."

Auchter, Amanda. 2008. "With Love from Betty Grable." Court Green 5. 132.

Averbach, Leanne. 2008. "Darwin is Despondent." Court Green 5. 162.

Bang, Mary Jo. 2008. "Departure." Court Green 5. 205.

Bang, Mary Jo. 2008. "Reminds me Ramona." Court Green 5. 206.

Barboza, Meg. 2008. "The Whole World's Encyclopedia." Court Green 5. 177.

Beatty, Jan. 2008. "A Necessary Waist: Plath Grows Thinner Reading Stein." Court Green 5. 197.

Beaumont, Jeanne Marie. 2008. from Sylvia Suite "Channeling Sylvia." Court Green 5. 142-3.

Beaumont, Jeanne Marie. 2008. from Sylvia Suite "Charmes for Ariel." Court Green 5. 141.

Beaumont, Jeanne Marie. 2008. from Sylvia Suite "[Exit Corpse]." Court Green 5. 144.

Berg, Catherine. 2007. "Linden Flowers." Virginia Woolf Miscellany. 25.

Berryman, John. 1968. "Dream song 172." His toy, his dream, his rest. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Bowman, Catherine. The Plath cabinet. Forthcoming.

Bowman, Catherine. 2007. "Sylvia Plath's Paper Dolls: Gold Hostess Frock with Top Hat." TriQuarterly. 58.

Bowman, Catherine. 2007. "Sylvia Plath's Paper Dolls: Midnight Blue Gown with Cape." TriQuarterly. 60.

Bowman, Catherine. 2007. "Sylvia Plath's Paper Dolls: Three Black Skirts." TriQuarterly. 59.

Bowman, Catherine. 2008. "Last Wishes, 1963." Court Green 5. 216.

Bowman, Catherine. 2008. "Paradise, 1956." Court Green 5. 215.

Bowman, Catherine. 2008. "Sylvia's Paper Dolls: Melon Dress." Court Green 5. 217.

Bowman, Catherine. 2008. "Sylvia's Hair." Court Green 5. 218.

Bowman, Catherine. 2008. "Things to Do, 1952." Court Green 5. 214.

Brock, Geoffrey. 2008. "Daddy: 1933." Poetry. June: 236.

Brock, James. 2008. "3 Dresses: Rachel, 2006." Court Green 5. 172-3.

Broder, Michael. 2008. "Confession." Court Green 5. 171.

Brown, Lee Ann. 2008. "Arrow." Court Green 5. 182-3.

Buckley, W.K. 2002. Sylvia's Bells. Concord, Calif.: Small Poetry Press.

Burge, Sara. 2008. "Ghost Story." Court Green 5. 155.

Davis, Peter. 2008. "Sylvia Plath." Court Green 5. 170.

Davison, Peter. 1974. "The heroine." Walking the boundaries. New York, Atheneum.

Davison, Peter. 2000. "Sorry (In memory of Sylvia Plath)." Breathing Room. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

DiPrima, Diane. 2008. "Death Wish Pantoum." Court Green 5. 181.

Dlugos, Tim. 2008. "The Third Sex." Court Green 5. 140.

Doizelet, Sylvie. 1996. La terre des morts est lointaine (Sylvia Plath). Paris: Gallimard.

Emanuel, Lynn. 1992. "Spite, a homage to Sylvia Plath." The Dig. University of Illinois Press.

Ewing, Robyn. 2008. "Letter to Ms. Plath From a Future Stranger Lady in Line at the Post Office Writing This." Court Green 5. 167-9.

Flynn, Leontia. 2008. Drives. Forthcoming

Frezza, Luciana. 1986. "Requiem for Sylvia Plath." In The defiant muse: Italian feminist poems from the middle ages to the present.

Gerstler, Amy. 2008. "Sivvy." Court Green 5. 131.

Grider, Nicholas. 2008. "Forms of Opiates for Sylvia Plath." Court Green 5. 176.

Hadas, Rachel. "Daughters and others."

Harris, Judith. 2008. "To the Granite Muses Who Have Gone Too Deep." Court Green 5. 147-8.

Hayes, Terrance. 2008. "The Blue Sylvia." Court Green 5. 133.

Hemphill, Stephanie. 2007. Your own, Sylvia: A verse portrait of Sylvia Plath. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

Hughes, Frieda. 1998. “Readers.” Wooroloo. New York: HarperCollins, 61.

Hughes, Frieda. 2006. Forty-Five. New York: HarperCollins.

Hughes, Ted. 1998. Birthday letters. London: Faber and Faber.

Hughes, Ted. 1998. Howls & whispers. Rockport, Me.: Gehenna Press.

Hurdle, Crystal. 2003. After Ted and Sylvia. Vancouver: Ronsdale Press.

James, Susen. 2008. "no matter which channel I tune to the music is the same." Court Green 5. 161.

James, Susan. 2008. "Sunday." Court Green 5. 160.

Jones, Patricia Spears. 2008. "Sylvia Plath, Office Worker." Court Green 5. 166.

Jong, Erica. 1971. “In Sylvia Plath country.” Fruits and vegetables. New York: Holt, Reinhart, and Winston.

Keeney, Scott. 2008. "Without Which No Art." Court Green 5. 222.

Klein, Jim. 2008. "Daddy." Court Green 5. 175.

Koertge, Ron. 2008. "Another Conversation Among the Ruins." Court Green 5. 146.

Kroll, Judith. 2008. "Court Green." Court Green 5. 212-3.

Kuan, Debora. 2008. "Snug Guns." Court Green 5. 204.

Morgan, Robin. 1972. “Arraignment.” New York: Random House.

Laroche, Rebecca. 2008. "The Pregnant Woman reads Sylvia Plath." Court Green 5. 154.

Lemmon, Amy. 2008. "Home Brew." Court Green 5. 157.

Liddy, James. 2005. "To the Memory of Sylvia Plath: A Personal Note." Legal Studies Forum. June: 129.

Loden, Rachel. 2008. "The Sylvia Plath Story." Court Green 5. 149.

Maxwell, Kristi. 2008. "The Of In." Court Green 5. 138-9.

Morrissay, Michael. 1981. She’s not the child of Sylvia Plath: Poems. Sword Press.

Mueller, Jenny. 2008. "Sylvia Plath at the Aviary." Court Green 5. 210-11.

Mullen, Laura. 2008. "Mirror, Mirror." Court Green 5. 185.

Murphy, Sarah. 2008. "War Story." Court Green 5. 156.

Newman, Amy. 2008. "Little Winter, 1962." Court Green 5. 152-3.

Novak, Robert. 1983. Sleeping with Sylvia Plath. The Windless Orchard Chapbook Series.

Oates, Joyce Carol. 1973. The fabulous beasts. Louisiana: Louisiana University Press.

Ossip, Kathleen. 2008. "Plath Variations." Court Green 5. 163-5.

Rukeyser, Muriel. 2008. "Not to Be Printed, Not to be Said, Not to Be Thought." Court Green 5. 194.

Ruiz Udiel, Francisco. 2005. “Cada cuatro años nace una poeta suicida.”

Satterfield, Jane. 2008. "Letter in February." Court Green 5. 135-6.

Satterfield, Jane. 2008. "Shade." Court Green 5. 137.

Scates, Maxine. 2008. "Anne Sexton on the cover of APR: 1973." Court Green 5. 179-80.

Schneiderman, Jason. 2008. "Anachronistic Fair Use Self Portraits of 20th Century Sylvia Plath (with "Daddy" Fixation)." Court Green 5. 199-203.

Schneiderman, Jason. 2008. "Self Portrait of Gertrude Stein with Increasing Plath Fixation." Court Green 5. 198.

Sexton, Anne. 1966. “Sylvia’s death.” Live or die. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Sexton, Anne. 1966. "Wanting to die." Live or die. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Shaw, Anne. 2008. "Hive." Court Green 5. 134.

Siek, Robert. 2008. "Fresh Air." Court Green 5. 174.

Sittler, Lee Anne. 2008. "Notes." Court Green 5. 219-21.

Stevenson, Anne. 2008. "Letter to Sylvia Plath." Selected Poems. New York: Library of America: 59-63.

Stevenson, Anne. 1989. "Three poems for Sylvia Plath." The Other House.

Strange, Sharon. Spring 2003. "On seeing Sylvia Plath written on a wall." Callaloo.

Timmons, Susie. 2008. "Channel." Court Green 5. 207.

Timmons, Susie. 2008. "colic." Court Green 5. 209.

Timmons, Susie. 2008. "Southern." Court Green 5. 208.

Valentine, Jean. 2008. "To Plath, to Sexton." Court Green 5. 178.

Wilbur, Richard. 1976. "Cottage Street, 1953." The mind-reader: new poems. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

Ward, Jean Elizabeth. 2008. An homage to Sylvia Plath. Lulu.com

Wong, Angela Veronica. 2008. "In Spring." Court Green 5. 158.

Wong, Angela Veronica. 2008. "Remains." Court Green 5. 159.

Wormser, Baron. 2008. "Heptonstall Cemetery." Court Green 5. 145.


Movies & Scripts
Brownlow, John. 2003. Sylvia: The shooting script. New York: Newmarket Press.

Jeffs, Christine. 2003. Sylvia. London: Capitol Films.

Animation
Hanna, Suzie and Tom Simmons. 2007. The girl who would be God. The Sylvia Plath 75th Year Symposium.


Operas
Finch, Annie and Deborah Dratell. Sylvia’s children. (In production).

Hölszky, Adriana, and Hans Neuenfels. 1999-2000. Giuseppe e Sylvia.


Music
Adams, Ryan. 2001. “Sylvia Plath.” Gold. Universal City, Calif: Lost Highway

Adams, Will. 2007. “Dirge for Sylvia Plath.” Time lost and found.

Ahrold, Frank, Corinne Curry, and Harold Farberman. 1978. Three poems of Sylvia Plath.

Altena, Maarten, and Sylvia Plath. 1986. Three songs on poems by Sylvia Plath: for high voice and seven instruments, 1986. Amsterdam: Donemus.

Anderson, Mimi Weisbord, and Nanette Rainone. 1972. The blood jet is poetry; the life and work of Sylvia Plath.

Angil And The Hiddentracks. 2007. “Sylvia Plath, Libby and Small Ghost.” Oulipo Saliva. Unique Records.

Blaustein, Susan and Sylvia Plath. 1986. The moon has nothing to be sad about: six poems from Ariel by Sylvia Plath : a song cycle for mezzo-soprano and chamber ensemble. Ship Bottom, N.J.: Association for the Promotion of New Music.

Boatwright, Howard, and Sylvia Plath. 1995. Five poems of Sylvia Plath: for soprano and piano. Fayetteville, N.Y.: Walnut Grove Press.

Brauns, Lauren. 2007. “I’ll Be Your Sylvia Plath.” Closed for the season.

Cohen, Fred S., Linda Pastan, Philip Levine, and Sylvia Plath. 1990. Three for Emily: setting of three poems by Linda Pastan, Philip Levine and Sylvia Plath, for soprano and chamber ensemble. New York, N.Y.: American Composers Alliance.

Cost, Deborah K. 1975. Dies irae for Sylvia Plath: 1975.

Diabolique. 2005. “Unhappy girl (Sylvia Plath Mix).” Uses of disorder.

Etheridge, Le Ann. 2005. “Back When Ted Loved Sylvia.” Farmer's daughter. Currituck Sound Music.

Harris, William. 1991. Waking in winter: three songs on verse by Sylvia Plath. Wien: B.H. Realist Press.

Isaac and the Awkward Situations. 2006. “Sylvia Plath.” Isaac and the Awkward Situations.

Knehans, Douglas, and Sylvia Plath. 1985. Five songs to poems of Sylvia Plath. {Sydney}: Sounds Australian.

Lipkis, Larry. 1974. Ariel; three poems by Sylvia Plath set for soprano, cello, and piano.

Manic Street Preachers. 1996. “The Girl Who Wanted To Be God.” Everything Must Go. London: Sony Music.

Nordentoft, Anders, and Sylvia Plath. 1987. 2 Sylvia Plath songs. Copenhagen: W. Hansen.

Packer, Randall, and Silvia Plath. 1981. Ariel settings: 4 poems of Sylvia Plath for tenor and string quartet. New York: American Composers Alliance.

Pollard, Phil. 2006. “Sylvia Plath.” Note.

Polly Panic. 2006. “Plathian Fashions.” Painkillers. Portland, Ore.: Greyday Productions.

Ran, Shulamit, and Sylvia Plath. 2000. Apprehensions (1978-1979): for voice, clarinet and piano. Tel-Aviv, Israel: Israel Music Institute.

Reimann, Aribert, and Sylvia Plath. 1987. Six poems by Sylvia Plath: for soprano and piano. Mainz: Schott.

Rorem, Ned, and Sylvia Plath. 1974. Ariel; 5 poems of Sylvia Plath, for soprano, clarinet and piano. [New York]: Boosey & Hawkes.

The Stepford Five. 2004. “Ted Hughes.” A new design for living. Colombus, Ohio: Reverbose Records.

Witness. 2003. “Sylvia Plath.”

Veldhuis, Jacob ter, and Sylvia Plath. 1980. 3 Poems by Sylvia Plath. [S.l: s.n.].

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