Anne Sexton
Noun
Meaning
United States poet (1928-1974)
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Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have nothing in common with them.
I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry periodical, and as a teenager I was introduced to Denise Levertov, who was an influence.
Plath took a job as a receptionist in the psychiatric unit of Massachusetts General Hospital and in the evening sat in on creative writing seminars given by poet Robert Lowell (also attended by the writers Anne Sexton and George Starbuck ).
In the original running order for Gabriel’s massively successful fifth album, this ode to the poetry of Anne Sexton fell between the lovestruck “In Your Eyes” and the punchy “Big Time.”
Our exit is of the now-defunct, full-page author photograph variety: Anne Sexton sitting on a screened-in porch.