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Anne Sexton (Newton, 9 de novembro de 1928 — Weston, 4 de outubro de 1974) foi uma escritora estadunidense conhecida por sua poesia confessional bastante pessoal. Ela venceu o Prémio Pulitzer de Poesia em 1967.
Anne Sexton. Anne Gray Harvey (poeta e ensaísta norte-americana) nasceu em 9 de novembro de 1928, em Massachusetss, EUA. Poeta conhecida por sua poesia de estilo confessional muito pessoal, sua temática inclui uma longa batalha contra a depressão, suas tendências suicidas e vários detalhes íntimos de sua vida privada.
- Early Life and Family
- Poetry
- Death
- Content and Themes of Work
- Subsequent Controversy
- Legacy
- Bibliography
- Further Reading
- External Links
Anne Sexton was born Anne Gray Harvey in Newton, Massachusetts to Mary Gray (Staples) Harvey (1901–1959) and Ralph Churchill Harvey (1900–1959). She had two older sisters, Jane Elizabeth (Harvey) Jealous (1923–1983) and Blanche Dingley (Harvey) Taylor (1925–2011). She spent most of her childhood in Boston. In 1945 she enrolled at Rogers Hall boardi...
Sexton suffered from severe bipolar disorder for much of her life, her first manic episode taking place in 1954. After a second episode in 1955 she met Dr. Martin Orne, who became her long-term therapist at the Glenside Hospital. It was Orne who encouraged her to write poetry. The first poetry workshop she attended was led by John Holmes. Sexton fe...
On October 4, 1974, Sexton had lunch with Kumin to revise galleys for Sexton's manuscript of The Awful Rowing Toward God, scheduled for publication in March 1975 (Middlebrook 396). On returning home she put on her mother's old fur coat, removed all her rings, poured herself a glass of vodka, locked herself in her garage, and started the engine of h...
Sexton is seen as the modern model of the confessional poetdue to the intimate and emotional content of her poetry. Sexton often wrote and disclosed her struggles with mental illness through her work. Sexton included numerous topics which were then regarded as obscene and repulsive, especially for women to talk about publicly at the time. Maxine Ku...
Following one of many suicide attempts and manic or depressive episodes, Sexton worked with therapist Martin Orne. He diagnosed her with what is now described as bipolar disorder, but his competence to do so is called into question by his early use of allegedly unsound psychotherapeutic techniques. During sessions with Sexton, he used hypnosis and ...
Peter Gabriel dedicated his song "Mercy Street" (named for her play Mercy Street and inspired by his reading of her poem "45 Mercy Street") from his 1986 album So to Sexton. She has been described as a "personal touchstone" for Morrissey, former lead singer and lyricist of The Smiths. She is commemorated on the Boston Women's Heritage Trail.
Poetry
1. To Bedlam and Part Way Back(1960) 2. All My Pretty Ones(1962) 3. Live or Die(1966) 4. Love Poems(1969) 5. Transformations(1971) 6. The Book of Folly(1972) 7. The Death Notebooks(1974) 8. The Awful Rowing Toward God(1975) 9. 45 Mercy Street(1976) 10. Words for Dr. Y.: Uncollected Poems(1978) 11. The Complete Poems: Anne Sexton(1981)
Prose
1. Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters(1977)
Middlebrook, Diane Wood (1992) [1991]. Anne Sexton: A Biography. Boston: Vintage. ISBN 978-0-679-74182-4.Sexton, Linda Gray (1994). Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother. Little, Brown & Co. ISBN 978-0-316-78207-4.McGowan, Philip (2004). Anne Sexton & Middle Generation Poetry: The Geography of Grief. Praeger Publishers. ISBN 978-0-313-31514-5.Salvio, Paula M. (2007). Anne Sexton: Teacher of Weird Abundance. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-7097-8. OCLC 70684774.Barbara Kevles (Summer 1971). "Anne Sexton, The Art of Poetry No. 15". The Paris Review. Summer 1971 (52). Archived from the original on November 27, 2020. Retrieved November 23, 2010.Anne Sexton at home on YouTube(video)Rare film footage on YouTubeof Anne reciting some poetry, and some home movie excerpts. From an Arts Review program from the early 1990s."Requiem For Anne Sexton". Here and Now. November 8, 2007. Interview with daughter Linda Gray Sexton, and Robert Clawson, who managed the Sexton's experimental band Anne Sexton and Her Kind.- Alfred Muller Sexton II (1948–1973)
- American
8 de abr. de 2024 · Anne Sexton, American poet whose work is noted for its confessional intensity. She won a Pulitzer Prize for Live or Die. Other collections include To Bedlam and Part Way Back, All My Pretty Ones, Transformations, and The Awful Rowing Toward God. Learn more about Sexton’s life and work.
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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. According to Diane Hume George,…
Há 2 dias · Anne Sexton was born Anne Gray Harvey in Newton, Massachusetts, on November 9, 1928. She received the 1967 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for her third collection, Live or Die (Houghton Mifflin, 1966). She taught at Boston University and at Colgate University, and died on October 4, 1974, in Weston, Massachusetts.
Anne Gray Harvey, mais conhecida pelo nome Anne Sexton – usado após o seu casamento – nasceu a 9 de novembro de 1928, em Massachussets, Estados Unidos. Considerada uma das maiores poetas norte-americanas do século XX, tornou-se figura expoente da “poesia confessional”. Dentre diversos prêmios literários, conquistou o “Pulitzer”, em 1967.
