Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Anne sexton as a feminist writer in English literature

A reader of endnotes.com posts a questions that only members can see: Literature - Anne sexton as a feminist writer in English literature.
http://www.enotes.com/lit/q-and-a/anne-sexton-feminist-writer-english-literature-276960

Monday, September 19, 2011

Big Loves: Larry Sawyer on Anne Sexton - Memoriousmag's Blog

By memoriousmag
Today's Big Loves guest is Larry Sawyer, author of Unable to Fully California (Otoliths, 2010). Big Loves: Anne Sexton. When I first came upon the lines “the virgin is a lovely number” I felt for the first time, more so than when I'd read Wallace.
Anne Sexton’s poetry is something to be caught, read at night, and her flashlight still illumines that which is most marvelous, resonant and redolent of real experience but with wild flights that reward patient readers.

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Boston Review: Poet Sampler: Lauren Jensen

From the Boston Review: In a 1966 interview in The Paris Review, Allen Ginsberg talks about the act of creating a poem. Jensen also joins the very small canon of female poets—Lucille Clifton, Molly Peacock, Gwendolyn Brooks, Ann Lauterbach, Anne Sexton, Deborah Digges—who address the topic of abortion intimately and in all its complexities

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Ransom Center restricts part of Wallace archive

Austin American-Statesman
Within the past year or so, the Ransom Center opened materials that had been restricted from the collections of such writers as Anne Sexton and Eudora Welty ...

Friday, September 16, 2011

Anne Sexton | Best Poems

Best Poems Encyclopedia lists three pages of poems by Anne Sexton. One wonders if this publications transfers royalties to the Anne Sexton estate…

Thursday, September 15, 2011

The X Spot: September 2011

In an enormous article, the grad-student mysteriously known as X.Dell, reflects on Anne Sexton and her mental illnesses. Although we note with some concern that this X.Dell has a liking to B-movies, radio dramas and writing cheesy conspiracy novels, he or she pulls off a pretty impressive article. X.Dells other blogs, which this body of reviewers dares not open, have titles such as The X-Spot Reader, CRUSHED BY INGSOC and Slimed X test.

“During sessions with Anne Sexton he used hypnosis and sodium pentothal to recover ... As noted previously, Anne Sexton manifest symptoms of what pop psychologists would call Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD), or what psychiatrists nowadays refer to as Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID),
http://xdell.blogspot.com/2011_09_01_archive.html

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Poet Henri Cole Reads

BU Today reports that the poet Henri Cole will read from his own work. Cole will read from his most recent collection, Touch (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011), tonight as the featured speaker at the Robert Lowell Memorial Lecture. The semiannual event honors American poet Robert Lowell, who taught at BU in the 1950s. Among Lowell’s famous students were Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton.

http://www.bu.edu/today/2011/poet-henri-cole-reads-tonight/

 



An Accident of Hope: The Therapy Tapes of Anne Sexton

Amazon has listed a soon-to-be-released book by Dawn M. Skorczewski named An Accident of Hope: The Therapy Tapes of Anne Sexton. This book discusses Anne Sexton’s therapy sessions with Doctor Martin Orne, promises new and exiting insights into Anne Sexton’s poetry, and even a critical look at the “nature of healing in psychotherapy.”

 

This promising book isn’t available yet but Amazon offers a helpful pre-order mailing list.


Amazon.com: An Accident of Hope: The Therapy Tapes of Anne Sexton ( 9780415887472): Dawn M. Skorczewski: Books.
http://www.amazon.com/Accident-Hope-Therapy-Tapes-Sexton/dp/041588747X

 

Monday, September 12, 2011

Anne Sexton on Quotation Net

Quotations Net offers an enormous array of “Famous and Historical quotes related to Anne Sexton .“ Well worth a look:

Saturday, September 3, 2011

Anne Sexton Summary - Anne Gray Harvey - Magill's Literary ...

Anne Sexton Summary - Anne Gray Harvey - Magill's Literary ...
Anne Sexton Magill's Literary Annual 1978 ... Since Anne Sexton's suicide in 1974, the literary world has received a legacy in three posthumously published ...
http://www.enotes.com/anne-sexton-salem/anne-sexton-676775

 

Friday, September 2, 2011

Tex Libris - Anne Sexton

Tex Libris – Anne Sexton
Who wouldn't want to get their paws dirty digging through the personal papers of such luminary writers as Graham Greene, Anne Sexton, Norman Mailer and ...
http://blogs.lib.utexas.edu/texlibris/tag/anne-sexton/

 

 

HekmagaJuximaxx: This shirt is as inappropriate for girls as Anne ...
“This shirt is as inappropriate for girls as Anne Sexton's poetry is a suicide manual.” Next Comment Previous Comment · Read the story: Despite girls playing ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/HekmagaJuximaxx/jc-penneys-girls-shirt_n_943349_105719355.html

 

 

 

Thursday, September 1, 2011

Anne Sexton- Ballad of the Lonely Mastubator

Anne Sexton- Ballad of the Lonely Mastubator - YouTube
This is one of my favorite poems, and it also seems to be one of the most difficult to find.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_RznZ7R9wk

 

anne sexton < to adventure . . .

Writers Who Teach, or Teachers Who Write? | TMR Blog
By robertlongforeman
Anne Sexton used to assign her students the task of writing a poem in the voice of Anne Sexton, but I don't know what that says about her ability to teach. I am wary of posing the question of whether teaching is an ideal day job for a writer, ...
http://www.missourireview.com/tmr-blog/2011/08/writers-who-teach-or-teachers-who-write/

 

anne sexton « to adventure . . .
Then Anne Sexton makes it somehow tangible; elevating faith to action; promise to achievement: You will jump to it someday. Then you'll fly. You'll really fly. ...
http://patriciakadick.wordpress.com/tag/anne-sexton/