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Anne Sexton






Anne Sexton

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born
November 09, 1928

died
October 04, 1974

gender
female

place of birth
Newton, Massachusetts, The United States

genre
Poetry


about this author

Anne Sexton once told a journalist that her fans thought she got better, but actually, she just became a poet. These words are characteristic of a talented poet that received therapy for years, but committed suicide in spite of this. The poetry fed her art, but it also imprisoned her in a way.

Her parents didn’t expect much of her academically, and after completing her schooling at Rogers Hall, she went to a finishing school in Boston. Anne met her husband, Kayo (Alfred Muller Sexton II), in 1948 by correspondence. Her mother advised her to elope after she thought she might be pregnant. Anne and Kayo got married in 1948 in North Carolina where it was still possible to get married before the age of 18. After the honeymoon Kayo ...more




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The Complete Poems: Anne Sexto... The Complete Poems: Anne Sexton
by Anne Sexton
avg rating 4.37 — 1,463 ratings — published 1982
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Transformations Transformations
by Anne Sexton
avg rating 4.33 — 552 ratings — published 1971
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Love Poems Love Poems
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avg rating 4.22 — 245 ratings — published 1969
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Selected Poems: Anne Sexton Selected Poems: Anne Sexton
by Anne Sexton
avg rating 4.29 — 210 ratings — published 1988
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All My Pretty Ones All My Pretty Ones
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avg rating 4.38 — 133 ratings — published 1962
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The Awful Rowing Toward God The Awful Rowing Toward God
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avg rating 4.37 — 111 ratings — published 1975
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Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait i... Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters
by Anne Sexton
avg rating 4.11 — 116 ratings — published 1979
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Live or Die Live or Die
by Anne Sexton
avg rating 4.34 — 101 ratings — published 1970
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To Bedlam and Part Way Back To Bedlam and Part Way Back
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avg rating 4.30 — 77 ratings — published 1960
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No Evil Star: Selected Essays,... No Evil Star: Selected Essays, Interviews, and Prose
by Anne Sexton
avg rating 4.05 — 56 ratings — published 1985
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Her Kind
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Anne reads a poem (two) and there's debate regarding her therapy tapes.
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"Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth."
Anne Sexton
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"As it has been said
Love and a cough cannot be concealed
Even a small cough
Even a small love"
Anne Sexton
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"Anne, I don't want to live. . . . Now listen, life is lovely, but I Can't Live It. I can't even explain. I know how silly it sounds . . . but if you knew how it Felt. To be alive, yes, alive, but not be able to live it. Ay that's the rub. I am like a stone that lives . . . locked outside of all that's real. . . . Anne, do you know of such things, can you hear???? I wish, or think I wish, that I were dying of something for then I could be brave, but to be not dying, and yet . . . and yet to [be] behind a wall, watching everyone fit in where I can't, to talk behind a gray foggy wall, to live but to not reach or to reach wrong . . . to do it all wrong . . . believe me, (can you?) . . . what's wrong. I want to belong. I'm like a jew who ends up in the wrong country. I'm not a part. I'm not a member. I'm frozen."
Anne Sexton (Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters)
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