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| | IMS: Anne Sexton, HarperAudio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | 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. |
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