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	About Anne Sexton
		Anne Sexton was born Anne Gray Harvey on November 9, 1928 in Newton, MA.
		Anne took refuge in Westwood Lodge, a private neuropsychiatric hospital that was frequently to serve as her sanctuary when the voices that urged her to die reached an insistent pitch.
		Anne basked in the attention she attracted, partly because it was antithetical to an earlier generation's view of the woman writer as "poetess," and partly because she was flattered by and enjoyed the adoration of her public.
	members.tripod.com /~toryn/anne.html (623 words)

	Anne Sexton's Life
		Sexton, Anne Gray Harvey (9 Nov. 1928-4 Oct. 1974), poet and playwright, was born in Newton, Massachusetts, the daughter of Ralph Harvey, a successful woolen manufacturer, and Mary Gray Staples.
		Anne was raised in comfortable middle-class circumstances in Weston, Massachusetts, and at the summer compound on Squirrel Island in Maine, but she was never at ease with the life prescribed for her.
		Sexton's biographer, Diane Middlebrook, recounts possible sexual abuse by Anne's parents during her childhood; at the very least, Anne felt that her parents were hostile to her and feared that they might abandon her.
	www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/s_z/sexton/sexton_life.htm (1309 words)

	Anne Sexton Papers, Biographical Sketch
		Born Anne Gray Harvey, Anne Sexton (1928-1974) was the youngest of three daughters born to a well-off couple in Weston, Massachusetts.
		Sexton's father owned and ran a wool business and her mother, well educated and intelligent, maintained an active social schedule of parties and charity events.
		In 1968 Sexton was awarded honorary membership in the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the first woman to receive this award, and in 1969 she was made a member of the Radcliffe chapter.
	www.hrc.utexas.edu /research/fa/sexton.bio.html (1020 words)

	Anne Sexton Art Collection
		In junior high school Sexton lost her awkwardness and became the center of a gang of girlfriends.
		Sexton bought one of Swan's first lithographs, and the two later collaborated on various projects, including some broadsides, jackets for three works (Live or Die, The Book of Folly, and The Death Notebooks), and illustrations for Transformations.
		The Anne Sexton Art Collection consists of fifteen oil paintings by Anne Sexton, and eight lithographic proofs of the same image by Barbara Swan.
	www.hrc.utexas.edu /research/fa/sexton.art.html (1408 words)

	CROSSROADS \| Ann Sexton: The Life vs. the Work
		Anne wrote about the complications of being female at a time when the rule was that "nice girls don't talk about sex," and the women of Massachusetts were still begging their doctors for sound advice on safe birth control.
		Anne refused to be a conventional housewife and repeatedly stated that she could not be a "cookie momma," but put energy and time (beyond work and family, friends and students) into vital social issues.
		Sexton's poetry is fixated on this language-game: she was, I think, both totally seduced by the Oedipal narrative of discovering "the awful truth," and totally aware of the impossibility of such a venture.
	www.poetrysociety.org /journal/articles/sexton.html (2672 words)

	Anne Sexton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sexton's poetry is characterized by its confessional tone: the poet addresses sex, illegitimacy, guilt, and her own mental breakdown in her work.
		Sexton sought to compose poetry that would shock the senses; and several of her collections, which anticipate her suicide at the age of forty-six, engage in a debate about taking one's life.
		Anne Sexton and John Berryman are key figures in the mode loosely described as "confessional" or "confessionalist"; their poems often present painful personal experience and psychological responses which emanate from and relate chiefly to their private lives.
	www.wwnorton.com /college/english/naal5/explore/sexton.htm (594 words)

	Anne Sexton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sexton was born in Newton, Massachusetts, and spent most of her life near Boston.
		Controversy was stirred with the public release of tapes recorded during Sexton's psychotherapy (and thus subject to doctor-patient confidentiality), wherein Sexton revealed incestuous contact with her daughter.
		Sexton's poetic life was further encouraged by her mentor, W.D. Snodgrass, whose poem, "Heart's Needle" encouraged her to write "The Double Image," a poem significant in expressing the multi-generational relationships existing between mother and daughter.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anne_Sexton (666 words)

	Anne Sexton
		Anne Sexton was known or classified as a confessional poet, one who writes real or fictitious, intimate, and hidden details of one's life.
		Anne did not consider herself to be a feminist, although she did write such poetry that dealt with feminist subjects and concerns.
		Anne wrote a lot about her own experiences to the point that it was hard to criticize her, because she really did go through some of it.
	www.uncp.edu /home/canada/work/allam/edit/sexton.htm (1998 words)

	Suicidal Thoughts/Anne Sexton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Anne Sexton found this same refuge and release in the company of Alfred-- he eased her strife and soothed her harried spirit.
		Anne shares that not long after Alfred is discharged from the navy and returns home, the couple prepare for the birth of their first daughter, Linda.
		Sexton indicates that she no longer even knows who she really is. She hates the image that she has come to emulate, and considers her whole physical appearance to be a falsehood behind which she hides, frustrated, but seeking validation and security.
	home.earthlink.net /~ltb05/id5.html (2046 words)

	Anne Sexton (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Anne's rage took root in Anne as a frightening symptom, which she described as a "tiny voice" in her head "shouting from far away," telling her she was awful, often taunting her to kill herself.
		Anne was one of the few patients at this hospital who did not receive electroshock therapy, which the staff doctors favored; instead, she was treated with psychotherapy.
		Anne sobbed and felt "shattered", fishing in her pockets for tissues, she found a slip of paper on which were a few lines from a poem by Rimbaud.
	www.glastonberrygrove.net.cob-web.org:8888 /reference/annesexton (10761 words)

	Sexton
		Sexton draws attention to this passivity in her poem, and describes the frustration a woman feels at being forced into inactivity.
		Sexton's poem is not just a re-telling of Sleeping Beauty, but a feminist interpretation of the tale, and the addition of the king forcing an incestuous relationship on his daughter compels a reader to focus on the feminist concern of where the princess fits within the power relations of the story.
		Sexton's "Briar Rose" is a feminist telling of a fairy tale that brings out the complications and disturbing aspects of the tale and shows that the story cannot honestly end "happily ever after." It is a tale which raises questions and problems and forces the reader to think about the woman's role in the story.
	www.gwu.edu /~folktale/GERM232/sleepingb/Sexton.html (950 words)

	Anne Sexton, anne sexton poems, Welcome to Anne Sexton Poets Website... Collection of poetry written by Anne Sexton can ...
		Growing up, Anne saw her eldest sister, Jane, become Daddy's girl, while her other sister Blanche, became reknown as the smart one of the three, loving to read and the only one to go to college.
		Nineteen sixty-four proved to be an interesting year in Anne's clinical life as her longtime psychiatrist moved his practice to Philadelphia, and she began seeing a new psychiatrist who started Anne on the drug, Thorazine, to control her on going depression and hospitalizatizations.
		Despite her success as a writer, poet, and playwright, Anne's personal life took a sudden plunge in 1973, where she was hospitalized three times and received a divorce from her husband during the course of the year.
	www.akoot.com /annesexton.html (1013 words)

	Anne Sexton (1928-1974)
		A balanced presentation of Sexton would include mention of her major themes, most of which are touched upon in the selection of poems here: religious quest, transformation and dismantling of myth, the meanings of gender, inheritance and legacy, the search for fathers, mother-daughter relationships, sexual anxiety, madness and suicide, issues of female identity.
		Sexton's early poetry was preoccupied with form and technique; she could write in tightly constrained metrical forms, as demonstrated in To Bedlam and Part Way Back and All My Pretty Ones.
		Sexton: Selected Criticism, edited by Diana Hume George, University of Illinois Press, 1988, includes many previously published articles from diverse sources in addition to new criticism, as does Anne Sexton: Telling the Tale, edited by Steven E. Colburn, University of Michigan Press, 1988.
	www.georgetown.edu /faculty/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/sexton.html (1025 words)

	The Academy of American Poets - Anne Sexton
		Anne Gray Harvey was born in Newton, Massachusetts, in 1928.
		In 1955, following the birth of her second daughter, Sexton suffered another breakdown and was hospitalized again; her children were sent to live with her husband's parents.
		She made the experience of being a woman a central issue in her poetry, and though she endured criticism for bringing subjects such as menstruation, abortion, and drug addiction into her work, her skill as a poet transcended the controversy over her subject matter.
	www.poets.org /poet.php/prmPID/14 (346 words)

	*Anne Sexton
		Anne Gray Harvey nasce il 9 novembre 1928 a Newton, vicino Boston, da un'agiata famiglia puritana di estrazione alto borghese che vantava ascendenti di notevole levatura culturale e politica.
		Anne Sexton che a differenza di Sylvia Plath non soffriva di depressione, cadeva in trance per ore, si imbottiva di psicofarmaci ed era vittima di un etilismo devastante.
		Anne Sexton si definì "poetessa primitiva", nessuno schermo intellettuale infatti sembrava filtrare la rappresentazione poetica, essa appariva finalizzata al recupero psicologico dell'infanzia individuale e culturale tramite l'utilizzo di ritmi infantili, della simbologia magica delle fiabe, di ritornelli da ballata.
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	Anne Sexton
		Anne Gray Harvey was born in Newton, Massachusetts.
		Anne was not comfortable with school, but she attended a finishing school and was briefly a fashion model.
		Anne Sexton killed herself with carbon monoxide in her garage at age 46.
	www.harvardsquarelibrary.org /poets/sexton.php (598 words)

	Amazon.ca: Anne Sexton : A Self-Portrait in Letters: Books: Lois Ames,Anne Sexton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		An expression of an extraordinary poet's life story in her own words, this book shows Anne Sexton as she really was in private, as she wrote about herself to family, friends, fellow poets, and students.
		Anne's daughter Linda Gray Sexton and her close confidant Lois Ames have judiciously chosen from among thousands of letters and provided commentary where necessary.
		I so wanted Anne to be happy, to feel satisfyed, to be content with her MANY accomplishments, but the mental illness would not allow her this luxury.
	www.amazon.ca /Anne-Sexton-Self-Portrait-Lois-Ames/dp/0618492429 (596 words)

	IMS: Anne Sexton, HarperAudio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.
		Sexton spent much of her life battling mental illness, and much of her poetry refers openly to her experiences in psychiatric hospitals.
		Anne Sexton reads her poems "Divorce, Thy Name is Woman," "Gods Making a Living," "Jesus Cooks," "Jesus Walking," and "The Fury of Overshoes." Sexton's poetry speaks clearly of her most personal conflicts; "The Death Notebooks," the last work published in her lifetime, deal with the interconnecting obsessions of death, motherhood, and religion.
	town.hall.org /Archives/radio/IMS/HarperAudio/053094_harp_ITH.html (362 words)

	Essays.cc - Anne Sexton
		Anne was often compared to Sylvia Plath but distinguishes herself from Plath in her interest in the flesh rather than in emblem of pain and mutilation (American Literature 3596).
		Sexton believed that complete honesty and self-revelation were an essential to creative work, so this was often the basis of her poetry.
		Anne Sexton was known to be one of the most “confessional” poets of the nineteen-sixties, and also one of the most debated.
	www.essays.cc /free_essays/c2/wuj286.shtml (1355 words)

	dwm.com \| Books \| Anne Sexton: A Biography
		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.
		It reconciles the many Anne Sextons: the 1950s housewife and mother; the seductress; the suicide who carried "kill-me pills" in her handbag the way other women carry lipstick; and the poet who made lasting art.
		To hear Anne Sexton performing with her chamber rock group, "Her Kind," click on Audio.
	www.dianemiddlebrook.com /sexton/as.html (148 words)

	Anne Sexton: Photograph & Commentary by Gwendolyn Stewart
		While he made a warm introduction, she stood leaning against the wall behind him, stunning in a fl jersey top that wrapped her body and a long fl-and-white skirt slit to the knee.
		"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 controversial 1991 biography of Sexton....
		ANNE SEXTON The Biography by Diane Wood Middlebrook
	www.people.fas.harvard.edu /~gestewar/sexton.html (728 words)

	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 psychiatrists and moralists.
		The tapes were released to Middlebrook under the strict permission of Anne's daughter, Linda Gray Sexton who authorized Middlebrook to utilize all resources that she had to construct a thourough biography of Anne's life.
		Though the controversy is real to many, the question of doctor-patient confidentiality has done little to hurt the success of the biography in the eyes of the general public.
	www.uta.edu /english/tim/poetry/as/bio1.html (1090 words)

	Amazon.ca: Anne Sexton Reads: Books: Anne Sexton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Anne Sexton's poems are brutally honest, often controversial, and always thought-provoking. Her work continues to dazzle new generations of readers and listeners.
		Sexton reads twenty-four poems selected from different periods in her creative life, all in a dramatic, resonant voice that complements the deeply personal quality of her dark poetic explorations. Ms.
		Sexton had a wonderful, unique literary vision, and she ranks among the great poets of our century.
	www.amazon.ca /Anne-Sexton-Reads/dp/0694522228 (472 words)

	PAL: Anne Sexton (1928-1974)
		Barry, Ann M. "In Praise of Anne Sexton's The Book of Folly: A Study of the Woman/Victim/Poet." 46-65.
		Dessner, Lawrence J. "Anne Sexton's 'The Abortion' and Confessional Poetry." 135-47.
		McSpadden, Katherine F. "The Self in the Poetry of Anne Sexton: The Religious Quest." 403-10.
	www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap10/sexton.html (549 words)

	Anne Sexton Biography (Poet) — Infoplease.com
		Anne Sexton married at the age of 19, worked briefly as a model and then started a family.
		Sexton suffered from depression and had mental breakdowns and suicidal bouts after the births of her children and the deaths of her parents.
		In the late 1950s she began writing poetry as therapy and was soon "discovered" by the literary world for her unapologetically autobiographical poems.
	www.infoplease.com /biography/var/annesexton.html (220 words)

	Anne Sexton (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Anne Sexton, Part 4 (5.1 Meg, 10.6 min) Poet Anne Sexton reads "Rowing," "Riding the Elevator Into the Sky," "The Play," "The Rowing Endeth," "Us," and "The Touch." Sexton's poetry ranges from the frankly sensual to the frankly miserable.
		Sexton has remained popular with readers since her first book, "To Bedlam and Part Way Back," was published in 1960.
		After struggling with depression for many years, Sexton took her own life in 1974 at the age of 46.
	www.levity.com.cob-web.org:8888 /corduroy/sexton.htm (515 words)

	Free Essays - Anne Sexton (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Known as one of the most “confessional” poets of her time, Anne Sexton was also one of the most criticized.
		She was known to use images of incest, adultery, and madness to reveal the depths of her deeply troubled life, which often brought on much controversy.
		Anne Sexton was born Anne Gray Harvey on November 9, 1928 in Newton, Massachusetts to Ralph Churchill and Mary Gray Staples Harvey (Discovering Biographies 1).
	www.freeessays.tv.cob-web.org:8888 /d19080.htm (371 words)

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