Home Poet Allen Ginsberg Allen Tate ... WC Williams Anne Sexton Poems, Biography, Analysis Anne Sexton : A Biography by Diane Wood Middlebrook - A wonderful book, just, balanced, insightful, complex in its sympathies and in its judgment of Sexton both as a person and as a writer... a deeply moving account." The New York Times Book Review. "Judicious and canny. [Middlebrook] appreciates both Sexton's gifts as a poet and her attractive side as a human being...but looks at her destructive weaknesses with a steady eye." Time. "Sympathetic but resolutely unsentimental ... intelligent, sensitive, at times harrowing." Joyce Carol Oates, Washington Post Book World. The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton Anne Sexton: The Last Summer - According to those who knew her best, Anne Sexton was always preparing for her death, almost like an Egyptian queen constructing her pyramid. She wanted to create the most poignant version of her life story, which would best serve as her monument after she was gone. She left behind a study filled with her papers, writings, and photographs. On a photo assignment from Houghton Mifflin, Arthur Furst first met Anne Sexton in April 1974, just two months after she was revived (against her wishes) from a suicide attempt. Welcoming him into her life as a friend, Sexton entrusted Arthur Furst to capture her image over the last months of her life. Undoubtedly, she intended his photographs to become part of her legacy. | |
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