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Anne Sexton was born in Newton, Massachusetts and raised in Weston, Massachusetts. One of the most popular poets of mid-20th century America, Sexton’s impressive body of work continues to be widely read and debated by literary scholars and cultural critics alike.
5 de abr. de 2016 · The Complete Poems. Anne Sexton. Open Road Media, Apr 5, 2016 - Poetry - 622 pages. The collected works of Anne Sexton showcase the astonishing career of one of the twentieth century’s most influential poets. For Anne Sexton, writing served as both a means of expressing the inner turmoil she experienced for most of her life and as a ...
A woman like that is misunderstood. I have been her kind. I have ridden in your cart, driver, waved my nude arms at villages going by, learning the last bright routes, survivor. where your flames still bite my thigh. and my ribs crack where your wheels wind. A woman like that is not ashamed to die. I have been her kind.
By Anne Sexton. 1. After the sweet promise, the summer’s mild retreat. from mother’s cancer, the winter months of her death, I come to this white office, its sterile sheet, its hard tablet, its stirrups, to hold my breath. while I, who must, allow the glove its oily rape, to hear the almost mighty doctor over me equate.
Anne Sexton (born Anne Gray Harvey; November 9, 1928 – October 4, 1974) was an American poet known for her highly personal, confessional verse. She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967 for her book Live or Die. Her poetry details her long battle with bipolar disorder, suicidal tendencies, and intimate details from her private life ...
In 1957 Sexton enrolled in a poetry workshop in Boston where she met and formed a lifelong creative bond with the poet Maxine Kumin, and began to progress rapidly: some early poems were accepted by The New Yorker and Harper’s Magazine. This was followed by significant encounters with W. D. Snodgrass, whose account of divorce and separation ...
Each an ambition bird. The bird wants to be dropped. from a high place like Tallahatchie Bridge. He wants to light a kitchen match. and immolate himself. He wants to fly into the hand of Michelangelo. and come out painted on a ceiling. He wants to pierce the hornet’s nest. and come out with a long godhead.
