A couple years or so ago I was in my second attempt of going back to college. One of my semesters of Comp. I was given an assignment to pick from a list of poets and write something or another about them. I never finished that assignment I chose to write on Anne Sexton. Something has happened just with the little research I did. She has come to my mind so many times since then and I have just craved to find out more and read more about her, her words and her daughters.

The best Bio I've ever read!

What made Diane Wood Middlebrook's material on Anne Sexton definitive was that it was crafted with a poet's sensibility.

@maxalberts2003

3 жыл бұрын

No, it was crafted with a voyeur's sensibility.

@cohencohen54

3 жыл бұрын

Her estate gave her total permission to her archive including tapes.

@ronnieedmondson1345

Жыл бұрын

@@maxalberts2003 Does being a voyeur make the bio a better read ?

@maxalberts2003

Жыл бұрын

@@cohencohen54 Her "estate" consisting of her daughters who weren't fond of her (to put it mildly). Nothing sacred to the memory of Anne Sexton about that book! Would you want your own kids to air their resentments in such passive-aggressive ways after your death?

@maxalberts2003

Жыл бұрын

@@ronnieedmondson1345 I couldn't stand that book. I am interested in her art and the circumstances that worked for it and against it. The book was nothing but a compendium of voyeuristic horror. But you read it--if you can get through it--and decide for yourself. but be forewarned: Sexton is treated there like an exotic bug under a microscope.

Anne Sexton's psychiatrist should be ashamed of himself. Granted, he followed the letter of the law and dotted his i's and crosed his t's but it seems to me he couldn't wait to spread the tawdry news. What a creep.

Is this an Anne Sexton poem? I read it on the 1987 SAT in Indiana, and have never found it anywhere since. I cannot remember all the middle, and can't find it anywhere. I don't remember when I fell asleep, half up the stair or dropped from a summer hill or yawning into bedtime, for the dream so counterfeited me I could not tell I was asleep.... and the days were full... and my diary would show many deeds accomplished... but it was not true. I find the book dusty, unwritten in. Was it a kiss? I awoke and I was old.

luv u baby fly sweet in the arms of watery lillys...

what year was this interview conducted?

Poets don't come out of the education environment...

@aaronying4989

6 жыл бұрын

wcp497 yea that comment and part annoyed me.

@user-ot5uk1js7t

2 ай бұрын

Oh someone doesn’t like your comment? Let’s specify for them . poets do come out of the education environment - bad ones. American poets out of the university system? Barf. On the other hand, good poets come out of the Irish elementary & ‘middle school’ system , because everyone is brought up as some sort of poet

2:26 I love u anne, Id call u annie to make u infantile like that happy child.

Dianne Middlebrook seems to really dislike Anne Sexton and takes every opportunity to belittle her in a passive aggressive manor

So Sexton had agoraphobia?

@mattmammone2338

8 жыл бұрын

+Jesse Edwards yeah I know she mentioned in a poem, describing herself as "a hermit, blushing in the sun"

@mattmammone2338

8 жыл бұрын

+Jesse Edwards The Truth The Dead Know.

@jesseredwards

8 жыл бұрын

I have it too. I mean I can leave the house now but crowds and public places are still an issue.

@mattmammone2338

8 жыл бұрын

+Jesse Edwards I know how you feel...even though I work live on stage in Lower Manhattan's cabaret an burlesque scene I manage. I like to write sketches and jokes from when I want. In costume doing a bit I feel at ease. I also credit Xanax if its bad. Once out there fear motivates usually.

I find Middlebrook's entire project appalling, equivalent to robbing a grave.

@Bernillary

2 жыл бұрын

sounds like a great project then, and appropriate for a poet who wrote books with titles like Death Notebooks.

@ronnieedmondson1345

Жыл бұрын

@@Bernillary yes, like a post mortem.

@shanedm3396

Жыл бұрын

You have piqued my interest, Max