21. Anne Sexton A very brief biographical note on sexton, with a small selection of her poems. http://www.inch.com/~ari/as1.html

Anne Sexton - confessional, intimate, direct - her recorded voice as intriguing as William Burroughs' or Ezra Pound's - even fronted a jazz-rock band towards the end, reciting all her pretty ones to a beat. Born in Newton, Massachusetts, in 1928 and living all of her life in or near Boston, her first book of poems, To Bedlam and Part Way Back , was published in 1960; her last, Words for Dr. Y. , was published after her death, by her own hand, on October 4th, 1974. She won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry in 1967 for Live or Die "All my pretty ones? Did you say all? O hell-kite! All? What! all my pretty chickens and their dam At one fell swoop?... I cannot but remember such things were, That were most precious to me." - Macbeth Another quote at the opening of this second Sexton volume (1962), read: ...the books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest remote from all human habitation - a book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us. - from a letter of Franz Kafka to Oskar Pollak CLICK on any IMAGE or use arrows BELOW menu contact ari CV

22. Anne Sexton: A Brief Biography In recent days, the release of Diane Wood Middlebrook s biography of anne sexton s life has caused controversy in the circles of certain groups of http://www.uta.edu/english/tim/poetry/as/bio1.html

A Brief Biography of the Life of Anne Sexton In 1954, Anne began struggling with recurring depression and began seeking counseling. During the time of her counseling she and Kayo gave birth to their second child, Joyce Ladd Sexton, whom they nicknamed Joy. Beginning in 1956, Annes mental condition worstened, leading up to her first psychiatric hospitalization and her first suicide attempt. In December of that year, under the guidance of her psychiatrist, Dr. Martin, she resumed writing poetry. Finding therapeutic value in her writing, she enrolled in John Holme's poetry workshop, where she met Maxine Kumin. Yet falling, once again into a deep depression, Anne attempted suicide again in May, 1957. Again hospitalized, she continued to write poetry and in August received a scholarship to Antioch Writers' Conference, where she met W. D. Snodgrass. In 1958, Anne enrolled in Robert Lowell's graduate writing seminar at Boston University, where she met Sylvia Plath and George Starbuck. In 1959, she was awarded the Audience Poetry Prize. With this award Anne began work to publish the first of her books of poetry entitled

23. Anne Sexton Controversy When the poet anne sexton began writing in the late 1950 s, those intensely autobiographical poems about her mental breakdowns, erotic fantasies and http://www.dianemiddlebrook.com/sexton/nyt7-15.html

Author Anne Sexton: A Biography Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton Anne Sexton : Controversy Surrounding the Biography New York Times 15 July 1991 Poet Told All; Therapist Provides the Record By ALESSANDRA STANLEY When the poet Anne Sexton began writing in the late 1950's, those intensely autobiographical poems about her mental breakdowns, erotic fantasies and preoccupation with death brought her overnight acclaim, and some criticism, as a "confessional poet." As Sexton said, rather proudly at the peak of her popularity in 1969, " I hold back nothing." Neither did her psychiatrist. "Ann Sexton," to be published by Houghton Mifflin in September, is the first serious examination of Sexton's life and work since her suicide in 1974. It is also the first known time a biography of a major American figure relies on material taken from the subject's private therapy sessions with a psychiatrist. The author of "Anne Sexton," Diane Wood Middlebrook, was given medical records, unpublished early poems and more than 300 audiotapes of sessions the poet had with Dr. Martin T. Orne, a psychiatrist who treated her from 1956 to 1964 and who first encouraged her to write poetry. Details of Madness and Abuse His action has caused far more consternation in literary and more particularly psychiatric circles than any other revelation in the book, which chronicles in sometimes harrowing detail Sexton's madness, alcoholism and sexual abuse of her daughter, along With her many extramarital affairs, including one with a woman and another with the second of her many therapists.

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25. Sexton, Anne The American Pulitzer Prize–winning poet anne sexton took her own life in 1974 via carbon monoxide poisoning before reaching the age of fifty. http://www.deathreference.com/Py-Se/Sexton-Anne.html

// nothing @import "../css/default.css"; Sexton, Anne forum Encyclopedia of Death and Dying Py-Se S EXTON , A NNE A number of creatively eminent individuals have taken their own lives, including John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, Sylvia Plath, and many other writers. The large number of such cases suggests that there may be a functional relationship between creativity and psychological health. This relationship seems to vary across domains, with the rate of suicide especially high in certain groups of artists, suggesting that there may be something unique to those domains that either draws suicide-prone persons into the domain or has an impact on the individual such that suicide is considered and often attempted. Live or Die (1966), which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, Sexton also received acclaim for The Awful Rowing towards God The Death Notebooks The Book of Folly Mercy Street Love Poems All My Pretty Ones To Bedlam and Partway Back Transformations (1971), and several volumes of selected and collected poems. Sexton was apparently addicted to sleeping pills and perhaps also to alcohol, further evidencing serious psychiatric disorders. At one point she had an affair with one of her therapists, further supporting the idea that she was not bound by most social norms.

26. Anne Sexton (1928-1974) anne sexton s poetry teaches superbly. It is accessible, challenging, richly textured, and culturally resonant. Her work is equally appropriate for use in http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/sexton.html

Anne Sexton (1928-1974) Contributing Editor: Diana Hume George Classroom Issues and Strategies Anne Sexton's poetry teaches superbly. It is accessible, challenging, richly textured, and culturally resonant. Her work is equally appropriate for use in American literature, women's studies, and poetry courses. The selections in this text represent many of the diverse subjects and directions of her work. Three problems tend to recur in teaching Sexton; all are interrelated. First, the "confessional school" context is troublesome because that subgenre in American poetry is both misnamed and easily misunderstood; Sexton has been the subject of inordinately negative commentary as the first prominent woman poet writing in this mode. Second, contemporary readers, despite the feminist movement, often have difficulty dealing with Sexton's explicitly bodily and female subject matter and imagery. Finally, readers often find her poetry depressing, especially the poems that deal with suicide, death, and mental illness. If the course emphasizes historical context, a sympathetic and knowledgeable explanation of resistance to the confessional mode is helpful. (Ironically, if historical context is not important to presentation of the material, I suggest not mentioning it at all.) Academic and public reactions to the women's movement, even though Sexton did not deliberately style herself as a feminist poet, will help to make students understand the depth and extent of her cultural and poetic transgressions. The third problem is most troubling for teaching Sexton; teachers might emphasize the necessity for literature to confront and deal with controversial and uncomfortable themes such as suicide, mortality, madness. A discussion of the dangers of equating creativity and emotional illness might be helpful, even necessary, for some students. It's also important to demonstrate that Sexton wrote many poems of celebration, as well as of mourning.

27. Anne Sexton (1928-1974) Modernist Conversations Sylvia Plath and anne sexton, Two Confessional Poets (juxtaposes poems by the two poets to explore their dialogic relationship) http://www.nagasaki-gaigo.ac.jp/ishikawa/amlit/s/sexton20.htm

Anne Sexton (1928-1974) Anne Sexton Home Page (Ari Frankel) Anne Sexton Archive Modernist Conversations: Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton, Two Confessional Poets (juxtaposes poems by the two poets to explore their dialogic relationship) (Lori Jendusa) "My Friend, My Friend" (Lori Jendusa) American Literature on the Web Sexton20.htm

28. Remembering Anne Sexton Article originally published Oct. 27, 1974 in the New York Times. Jong reminisces about sexton s life and career. Site requires free registration. http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/07/20/reviews/jong-sexton.html

October 27, 1974 Remembering Anne Sexton By ERICA JONG es! Yes! We'll live!" Anne Sexton wrote in my copy of "Live or Die"her third book of poems and the one that earned her the Pulitzer Prize. She wrote that inscription last June, only four months before she took her life on Oct. 4, 1974. Dr. Johnson said that a man is not upon oath in lapidary inscriptions, and he might just as well have said that an author is not upon oath in book inscriptions. Still, looking back at that evening in June when Anne Sexton sat in my living room and delighted everyone with her humor and warmth, I wonder whether some of her ebullience did not come from the fact that she had already made her decision. I will never know. She dealt with suicide and death in all her books. Her last published collection, "The Death Notebooks," was originally intended for posthumous publication, and her next book, "The Awful Rowing Toward God," had just been corrected in galleys before she died. I could speak here of the fact that Anne Sexton is one of the writers by whom our age will be known and understood in times to comeif there are any times to come. Some people including other poetswere embarrassed by her poetry and sought to denigrate it, perhaps because it was so naked and painful that it exposed the hypocrisies they lived by (and even, at times, wrote by). But I would rather speak of Anne Sexton's bigness as a person than of her greatness as a poet. The poems are thereseven published books and two more (at least) to come. They will be understood in timenot as "women's poetry" or "confessional poetry"but as myths that expand the human consciousness. Like all such myths, they are a big frightening. Some people would rather pretend they do not exist, or do not exist in the temple of art. But no matter: the poems go on saying themselves to us in the dark. They will not go away.

29. Poet: Anne Sexton - All Poems Of Anne Sexton Poet anne sexton All poems of anne sexton .. poetry. http://www.poemhunter.com/anne-sexton/

Poem Hunter .com Poet: Anne Sexton - All poems of Anne Sexton 1/27/2008 1:11:35 PM Home Poets Poems Lyrics ... SEARCH Anne Sexton (October 4,1974 / Newton, Massachusetts) Biography Poems Comments More Info ... message to the poet Sexton was born in Newton, Massachusetts, and spent most of her life near Boston. In 1945, Sexton began attending a boarding school, Rogers Hall, in Wayne, Michigan. For a time as a young woman, she modeled at Boston's Hart Agency. She eloped in 1948 with Alfred Muller Sexton, known as 'Kayo.' Befor .. .. more >> Poems Search in the poems of Anne Sexton Click the title of the poem you'd like read. Page: 45 Mercy Street A Curse Against Elegies A Story for Rose on the Midnight Flight to Boston Admonitions to a Special Person ... Christmas Eve Page: Comments about Anne Sexton There is no comment submitted by members.. Click here to write your comments about Anne Sexton Web pages / more info about Anne Sexton Anne Sexton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia She also collaborated with some musicians, forming the group Anne Sexton and Her Kind, who were working to put some of her writing to music.

30. PAL: Anne Sexton (1928-1974) anne sexton a selfportrait in letters. edited by Linda Gray sexton and Lois Ames. Boston Houghton Mifflin, 1977. PS3537.E915 Z53 http://web.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap10/sexton.html

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide - An Ongoing Project Paul P. Reuben (To send an email, please click on my name above.) Chapter 10: Anne Sexton (1928-1974) Primary Works Selected Bibliography 1980-Present MLA Style Citation of this Web Page Chap. 10: Index ... Home Page Source: Primary Works To Bedlam and Part Way Back, All My Pretty Ones, Selected Poems, Live or Die, 1966 (Pulitzer Prize); Transformations, The Book of Folly, The Death Notebooks, The Awful Rowing Toward God, 45 Mercy Street, Anne Sexton: a Self-Portrait in letters, Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories Anne Sexton, The complete poems, No Evil Star: Selected Essays, Interviews, and Prose, To Bedlam and part way back; poems. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960. PS3537 .E915 T6 Live or die; poems. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966. PS3537 .E915 L5 Love poems. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1969. PS3537 E915 L6 Transformations. With drawings by Barbara Swan. Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1971. PS3537 .E915 T7 The book of folly.

31. IMS: Anne Sexton, HarperAudio With Mercy for the Greedy, The Starry Night, Letter Written on a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound, and Self in 1958, read by poet anne sexton. http://town.hall.org/radio/HarperAudio/053094_harp_ITH.html

Anne Sexton Anne Sexton reads her own poetry "Her Kind," "The Ambition Bird," "Ringing the Bells," "Music Swims Back to Me," and "The Truth the Dead Know." Sexton was born in Newton, Massachusetts, in 1928. She began writing poetry on the advice of her therapist in 1957, and won the Pulitzer Prize for her book of poems, "Live or Die." Haunted by mental illness and personal torment, Sexton's poems speak openly of a dark and unhappy world. Part 1 .au format (4.5 Mb), .gsm format (1 Mb), .ra format (0.6 Mb). "With Mercy for the Greedy," "The Starry Night," "Letter Written on a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound," and "Self in 1958," read by poet Anne Sexton. Sexton spent much of her life battling mental illness, and much of her poetry refers openly to her experiences in psychiatric hospitals. Her intricate play of rhyming sounds and repetitive rhythms forms a structure for work that focuses primarily on deep introspection and unhappiness. Part 2 .au format (5 Mb), .gsm format (1 Mb)

32. Anne Sexton: Photograph & Commentary By Gwendolyn Stewart Another of her anne sexton s reading outfits is on display in a famous photo by Gwendolyn Stewart that was on the cover of Diane Wood Middlebrook s http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~gestewar/sexton.html

A NNE S EXTON November 9, 1928 - October 4, 1974 by Gwendolyn Stewart ANNE SEXTON (1928-1974) Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1967 ( Live or Die Photograph by Gwendolyn Stewart This photograph to me captures Anne's duality, and argues against reducing her to her death. Cover the top part of the picture; look at the legs tortuously twisted together. It is well known that she made a number of attempts to kill herself. Now cover the bottom half of the photograph, and look at the arms and radiant face. She told me she always felt joyous when she was rescued from those attempts. There was of course no final rescue, but I am not convinced that she "really" meant this suicide attempt, that she would not have welcomed another rescue. Gwendolyn Stewart POSTER AVAILABLE: Please contact: gestewar@fas.harvard.edu The poster is 18x24", with a white border around the full-length image of the photograph as shown, but without the labels. "The high point of the winter for Sexton was the reading arranged for her at Sanders Theater on 7 March [1974] by the Harvard Literary Club. Since this reading was to serve as the Boston debut of The Death Notebooks

33. Anne_Sexton sexton, anne. Transformations. Boston Houghton Mifflin Company, 1971. Drawing by Barbara Swan. Link to analysis of anne sexton s Briar Rose http://www.gwu.edu/~folktale/GERM232/sleepingb/Anne_Sexton.html

BRIAR ROSE (SLEEPING BEAUTY) Consider a girl who keeps slipping off, arms limp as old carrots, into the hypnotist's trance, into a spirit world speaking with the gift of tongues. She is stuck in the time machine, suddenly two years old sucking her thumb, as inward as a snail, learning to talk again. She's on a voyage. She is swimming further and further back, up like a salmon, struggling into her mother's pocketbook. Little doll child, come here to Papa. Sit on my knee. I have kisses for the back of your neck. A penny for your thoughts, Princess. I will hunt them like an emerald. Come be my snooky and I will give you a root. That kind of voyage, rank as honeysuckle. Once a king had a christening for his daughter Briar Rose and because he had only twelve gold plates he asked only twelve fairies to the grand event. The thirteenth fairy, her fingers as long and thin as straws, her eyes burnt by cigarettes, her uterus an empty teacup, arrived with an evil gift.

34. CROSSROADS | Ann Sexton: The Life Vs. The Work On May 17th, the PSA held an event at Cooper Union in New York City called Beyond Tribute anne sexton Revisited. The participants included Betsy Andrews, http://www.poetrysociety.org/journal/articles/sexton.html

O n May 17th, the PSA held an event at Cooper Union in New York City called "Beyond Tribute: Anne Sexton Revisited." The participants included Betsy Andrews, Eileen Myles, Chris Stroffolino, Robert Clawson, Marie Howe, and David Trinidad. J.D. McClatchy moderated and introduced the evening. The speakers presented complex, troubling, and often exhilarating relationships with Anne Sexton, each one trying to claim a space from which to relate to this difficult and sometimes baffling poet. What came out most strongly that night was the difficulty each one had in separating Anne Sexton's life from her work from her reputation, or even deciding if the desire for this separation was the proper reaction to have. There is a push and pull between almost any artist's life and work, and a desire on the part of many readers to reconcile them, to see a coherent pattern uniting the two. What became clear that night in May was how much Anne Sexton complicates this urge, and how willing many people are to try anyway. This Fall

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Anne Sexton Akoot - Famous Writers o Home o Poetry Board o PoeticQ.com - Famous Writers Gallery o PoeticSpace.com - MySpace For Poets... Picture Brief Bio Unable to afford making a living and supporting a wife, Kayo decided that they should move back to Massachusetts. Upon moving back, Anne enrolled in a modeling class at the Hart Agency, completing the course and going on to model for the agency for a short period of time. Meanwhile, Kayo had joined the naval reserve and had been shipped out on the USS Boxer to Korea. In 1952, Kayo came home for a year after the Boxer received war damage. It was during this time that Anne and Kayo conceived their first child. In July 1953, shortly after Kayo had been shipped out again, Anne gave birth to Linda Gray Sexton. Later that year Kayo was discharged and he returned home where he and Anne purchased a home in Newton Lower Falls, Massachusetts, not far from either of their parents. In 1954, Anne began struggling with recurring depression and began seeking counseling. During the time of her counseling she and Kayo gave birth to their second child, Joyce Ladd Sexton, whom they nicknamed Joy. Beginning in 1956, Annes mental condition worstened, leading up to her first psychiatric hospitalization and her first suicide attempt. In December of that year, under the guidance of her psychiatrist, Dr. Martin, she resumed writing poetry. Finding therapeutic value in her writing, she enrolled in John Holme's poetry workshop, where she met Maxine Kumin. Yet falling, once again into a deep depression, Anne attempted suicide again in May, 1957. Again hospitalized, she continued to write poetry and in August received a scholarship to Antioch Writers' Conference, where she met W. D. Snodgrass. In 1958, Anne enrolled in Robert Lowell's graduate writing seminar at Boston University, where she met Sylvia Plath and George Starbuck. In 1959, she was awarded the

36. Anne Sexton, Cinderella anne sexton, Cinderella You always read about it the plumber with the twelve children who wins the Irish Sweepstakes. From toilets to riches. That story. http://www.muohio.edu/technologyandhumanities/sexton.htm

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38. Anne Sexton — Infoplease.com sexton, anne (Harvey), 1928–74, American poet, b. Newton, Mass. Educated at Garland Junior College and at Radcliffe, she worked briefly as a fashion model http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0844608.html

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39. Anne Sexton Life Stories, Books, & Links Stories about anne sexton s life and Poems. With links to essays literary criticism and analysis. http://www.todayinliterature.com/biography/anne.sexton.asp

TABLE OF CONTENTS Anne Sexton - Life Stories, Books, and Links Biographical Information Stories about Anne Sexton Selected works by this author Selected books about / related to this author ... Recommended links BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION Anne Sexton (1928 - 1974) Category: American Literature Born: November 9, 1928 Newton, Massachusetts, United States Died: October 4, 1974 Newton, Massachusetts, United States Related authors: John Berryman Sylvia Plath list all writers Anne Sexton - LIFE STORIES Anne Sexton, "Her Kind," Suicide On this day in 1960, "confessional" American poet Anne Sexton published To Bedlam and Part Way Back , her first book of poetry, titled from experience. One poem in the collection is "Her Kind"; this signature piece would usually start Sexton's readings and, when the readings became performances accompanied by a chamber rock group, would have her billed as "Anne Sexton and Her Kind." top of page SELECTED WORKS BY THIS AUTHOR The Complete Poems anthology, poetry

40. Howstuffworks "Sexton, Anne - Encyclopedia Entry" Learn about sexton, anne. Read our encyclopedia entry on sexton, anne. http://reference.howstuffworks.com/sexton-anne-encyclopedia.htm

HowStuffWorks.com RSS Make HowStuffWorks your homepage Get Newsletter Search HowStuffWorks and the web: Encyclopedia Humanities Literature American ... Poets Learn about American Poets and get information on topics related to American Poets. Related Categories: REFERENCE LINKS PRINT EMAIL Sexton, Anne Sexton, Anne (1928-1974), was an American poet. She wrote about troubling, intimate experiences in a style intended to reveal raw feeling. Sexton dealt with such subjects as her mental illness, her sexuality, and her parents and children from a specifically female point of view. She began to write with the encouragement of her psychiatrist. Her poetry remains the vision of a disturbed suicidal individual, but it attempts to speak for modern experience as a whole. Her approach follows a trend set by the confessional poets Sylvia Plath, John Berryman, and Sexton's former teacher Robert Lowell. Related Topics: Gluck, Louise , glihk, loo EEZ (1943-...), an American poet, gained recognition for her straightforward poems that deal with such themes as... Johnson, James Weldon

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