Anne Sexton

Author : Diane Middlebrook
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1992-10-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780679741824

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Anne Sexton by Diane Middlebrook Pdf

Anne Sexton began writing poetry at the age of twenty-nine to keep from killing herself. She held on to language for dear life and somehow -- in spite of alcoholism and the mental illness that ultimately led her to suicide -- managed to create a body of work that won a Pulitzer Prize and that still sings to thousands of readers. This exemplary biography, which was nominated for the National Book Award, provoked controversy for its revelations of infidelity and incest and its use of tapes from Sexton's psychiatric sessions. It reconciles the many Anne Sextons: the 1950s housewife; the abused child who became an abusive mother; the seductress; the suicide who carried "kill-me pills" in her handbag the way other women carry lipstick; and the poet who transmuted confession into lasting art.

Author : Maggie Doherty
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780525434603

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The Equivalents by Maggie Doherty Pdf

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD In 1960, Harvard’s sister college, Radcliffe, announced the founding of an Institute for Independent Study, a “messy experiment” in women’s education that offered paid fellowships to those with a PhD or “the equivalent” in artistic achievement. Five of the women who received fellowships—poets Anne Sexton and Maxine Kumin, painter Barbara Swan, sculptor Marianna Pineda, and writer Tillie Olsen—quickly formed deep bonds with one another that would inspire and sustain their most ambitious work. They called themselves “the Equivalents.” Drawing from notebooks, letters, recordings, journals, poetry, and prose, Maggie Doherty weaves a moving narrative of friendship and ambition, art and activism, love and heartbreak, and shows how the institute spoke to the condition of women on the cusp of liberation. “Rich and powerful. . . . A love story about art and female friendship.” —Harper’s Magazine “Reads like a novel, and an intense one at that. . . . The Equivalents is an observant, thoughtful and energetic account.” —Margaret Atwood, The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

Author : Anne Sexton
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781504034357

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Transformations by Anne Sexton Pdf

Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Anne Sexton morphs classic fairy tales into dark critiques of the cultural myths underpinning modern society Anne Sexton breathes new life into sixteen age-old Brothers Grimm fairy tales, reimagining them as poems infused with contemporary references, feminist ideals, and morbid humor. Grounded by nods to the ordinary—a witch’s blood “began to boil up/like Coca-Cola” and Snow White’s bodice is “as tight as an Ace bandage”—Sexton brings the stories out of the realm of the fantastical and into the everyday world. Stripping away their magical sheen, she exposes the flawed notions of family, gender, and morality within the stories that continue to pervade our collective psyche. Sexton is especially critical of what follows these tales’ happily-ever-after endings, noting that Cinderella never has to face the mundane struggles of marriage and growing old, such as “diapers and dust,” “telling the same story twice,” or “getting a middle-aged spread,” and that after being awakened Sleeping Beauty would likely be plagued by insomnia, taking “knock-out drops” behind the prince’s back. Deconstructed into vivid, visceral, and often highly amusing poems, these fairy tales reflect themes that have long fascinated Sexton—the claustrophobic anxiety of domestic life, the limited role of women in society, and a psychological strife more dangerous than any wicked witch or poisoned apple.

Author : Anne Sexton
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0618057048

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Selected Poems of Anne Sexton by Anne Sexton Pdf

A selection of poems by contemporary American author Anne Sexton, drawn primarily from eight previously published collections.

Author : Paula M. Salvio
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780791480083

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Anne Sexton by Paula M. Salvio Pdf

Winner of the 2008 Critics' Choice Award presented by the American Educational Studies Association A Pulitzer Prize–winning poet who confessed the unrelenting anguish of addiction and depression, Anne Sexton (1928–1974) was also a dedicated teacher. In this book, Paula M. Salvio opens up Sexton's classroom, uncovering a teacher who willfully demonstrated that the personal could also be plural. Looking at how Sexton framed and used the personal in teaching and learning, Salvio considers the extent to which our histories—both personal and social—exert their influence on teaching. In doing so, she situates the teaching life of Anne Sexton at the center of some of the key problems and questions in feminist teaching: navigating the appropriate distance between teacher and student, the relationship between writer and poetic subject, and the relationship between emotional life and knowledge. Examining Sexton's pedagogy, with its "weird abundance" of tactics and strategies, Salvio argues that Sexton's use of the autobiographical "I" is as much a literary identity as a literal identity, one that can speak with great force to educators who recognize its vital role in the humanities classroom.

Author : Amanda Golden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 0813064031

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This Business of Words by Amanda Golden Pdf

This book offers fresh perspective on the life and writings of Anne Sexton, one of the most influential American women writers.

Author : Anne Sexton
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781504034371

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Anne Sexton by Anne Sexton Pdf

A revealing collection of letters from Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Anne Sexton While confessional poet Anne Sexton included details of her life and battle with mental illness in her published work, her letters to family, friends, and fellow poets provide an even more intimate glimpse into her private world. Selected from thousands of letters and edited by Linda Gray Sexton, the poet’s daughter, and Lois Ames, one of her closest friends, this collection exposes Sexton’s inner life from her boarding school days through her years of growing fame and ultimately to the months leading up to her suicide. Correspondence with writers like W. D. Snodgrass, Robert Lowell, and May Swenson reveals Sexton’s growing confidence in her identity as a poet as she discusses her craft, publications, and teaching appointments. Her private letters chart her marriage to Alfred “Kayo” Sexton, from the giddy excitement following their elopement to their eventual divorce; her grief over the death of her parents; her great love for her daughters balanced with her frustration with the endless tasks of being a housewife; and her persistent struggle with depression. Going beyond the angst and neuroses of her poetry, these letters portray the full complexities of the woman behind the art: passionate, anguished, ambitious, and yearning for connection.

Author : Linda Gray Sexton
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781582438788

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Searching for Mercy Street by Linda Gray Sexton Pdf

New York Times Notable Book: A “beautifully written” memoir by the daughter of the brilliant, troubled poet (Detroit Free Press). This is an honest, unsparing account of the anguish and fierce love that bound a difficult mother and the daughter she left behind. Linda Sexton was twenty–one when her mother killed herself, and now she looks back, remembers, and tries to come to terms with her mother’s life. Growing up with Anne Sexton was a wild mixture of suicidal depression and manic happiness, inappropriate behavior and midnight trips to the psychiatric ward. Anne taught Linda how to write, how to see, how to imagine—and only Linda could have written a book that captures so vividly the intimate details and lingering emotions of their life together. Searching for Mercy Street speaks to everyone who admires Anne Sexton and to every daughter or son who knows the pain of an imperfect childhood. “Sexton forcefully communicates the fear, repulsion, neediness, and sorrow that filled her childhood, as well as the agony of her own mental breakdown and her terror of becoming like her mother, in lucid and vivid prose.” —The Boston Globe “A candid, often painful depiction of a daughter’s struggles to come to terms with her powerful and emotionally troubled mother.” —The New York Times

Author : Gail Crowther
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781982138424

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Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz by Gail Crowther Pdf

"A dual biography of poets, friends, and rivals Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton"--

Author : Anne Sexton
Publisher : Boston : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015005556785

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Live Or Die by Anne Sexton Pdf

Author : Anne Sexton
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 0241460395

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Mercies by Anne Sexton Pdf

The ground-breaking work of the poet who paved the way for generations of women writers, in a new selection by her daugher and literary executor, Linda Gray Sexton When Anne Sexton took her own life in October 1974, she left behind a body of work which had already, in less than two decades of writing, won her the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, established her as one of the foremost voices of her generation, and shocked America by breaking multiple taboos of subject matter, from insanity, depression and addiction to menstruation, adultery and the figure of the witch. Sexton's name is legendary. Her poetry is read around the world, translated into over thirty languages, and in her own country remains a touchstone for poets and readers looking for rawness of perception, vitality of expression, confessional frankness and fiery passion. Yet, incredibly, there has been no new UK edition of her work for decades. In Mercies, readers are provided with a resonant new selection from the writings of this natural phenomenon of a poet.

Author : Anne Sexton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015066035950

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The Death Notebooks by Anne Sexton Pdf

Author : Jo Gill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0813031753

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Anne Sexton's Confessional Poetics by Jo Gill Pdf

Given the amount of scholarship on twentieth-century poetry, there has been remarkably little published about Anne Sexton, even though her work is considered to be as important as that of such contemporaries as Sylvia Plath and W. H. Auden. By offering new and provocative readings of her entire oeuvre, Jo Gill provides a long overdue critical appreciation of Anne Sexton and presents a radical rethinking of the confessional mode of poetry and a recuperation of Sexton's place in it. Gill makes substantial use of Sexton's archive of unpublished diaries, drafts, correspondence, lectures, interviews, stage readings, and book annotations, as well as a little-known television documentary on Sexton. She also uses techniques that have not been previously applied to Sexton's poetry to increase our understanding of the poet's life and work. Employing new--principally poststructuralist--literary theories and critical practices, Gill offers new readings of Sexton's complex and ambitious poems. She discusses the diversity and richness of Sexton's writing across her career, shows the relevance of the often-ignored later poems, and places Sexton's work in its specific historical, political, and ideological contexts.

Author : Anne Sexton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015002715673

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All My Pretty Ones by Anne Sexton Pdf

A gifted poet reveals the poignancy and plaintive charm of common experiences.

Author : Anne Sexton
Publisher : Boston : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Poetry
ISBN : IND:30000003489113

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The Awful Rowing Toward God by Anne Sexton Pdf

In this powerful new collection, one of our most dazzlingly inventive and prolific poets tackles a universal theme: the agonizing search for God that is part and parcel of the livse of all of us. As always, Anne Sexton's latest work derives from intense personal experience. She explores the dilemmas and triumphs, and the agony and the peace of her highly unorthodox faith, sharing all her findings with her readers as the quest progresses. Anne Sexton's poetry speaks to our most passionate yearnings for love and our deepest fears of evil and death. The uncompromising honesty and vividness of "The Awful Rowing Toward God" confirms her stature as one of the most compelling voices of our time. -- From publisher's description.