Author: Diane Wood Middlebrook,
Title: Anne Sexton, a biogrpahy.
Description: Boston, Houghton Mifflin, (1991). 5th printing. VG Hardback in VG DJ. Anne Sexton, who died at her own hand in 1974, claims she was the only confessional poet and is one of the most widely read. poets. A disturbing collection of essays and stories stained with rage, loneliness,tears and blood. Annie Proulx of recent decades. How Sexton's deeply disturbed life anded powerfully ended. She grew up in a convenional middle class Massachusetts family, married in her teens, and worked for a while as a fashion model. Her life displayed little to atnicipate artistic achievement until after the birth of her second daughter when she suffered a suicidal breakdown. Even Psyiatric intervention has little effect, until her therapist sugested she write poetry thus began 18 years of wild productivity.

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