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Be careful of words ( Read more... )

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Hi all.

A year or two ago I finished my Master's dissertation on Sexton (The Black Art: Biography and the Appearance of Truth in the Poetry of Anne Sexton - 25,000 words). I posted a message here offering to share it with anyone who was interested, and a few people were. Just the other day I noticed it was in my "drafts" folder - evidently it had ( Read more... )

Here's one of my favorite Anne Sexton poems:

The KissMy mouth blooms like a cut ( Read more... )

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/ent/stories/DN-voices_0309gd.State.Edition1.412045e.html

Dating from 1973, Transformations is based on tales by the Grimm brothers that were "transformed" by poet Anne Sexton. Stories that originally had only unsettling undercurrents mingle, literally, with madness. Sexton imagined the tales set in a ( Read more... )

What are some of your favorite Anne Sexton poems?

Mine are: After Auschwitz, The Black Art, and The Kiss.

 ( The Ballad of the Lonely Masturbator )

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Wonderful song by Peter Gabriel, inspired by Anne Sexton

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX7zIypE2FE&feature=related

What significance do think "rats star" held for Sexton?

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