The Occult Sylvia Plath: The Hidden Spiritual Life of the Visionary Poet

From a scholar of Sylvia Plath, this book looks into a little occult side of the author — the explorations of metaphysical knowledge that a fan might not be well acquainted with. Exploring the author’s interest in mysticism and her practices that perdured to the time of her death, the author Julia Goron-Bramer sheds a light and takes a deep long look into this side of Plath — how this part of her life combined the political, the historical, though research through her works, journals, scrapbooks, personal correspondences, the author has thoroughly researched her experience exploring the supernatural. Through means such as meditation, scrying crystals, interest in the Qabalah, Hermeticism, Plath interfaced with the esoteric which the author explains showed up in her poems and other works. The author explains that there was a hidden side to Plath, in contrast with the side Plath presents in her autobiography.