Anne Sexton: A BiographyBy Diane Wood MiddlebrookHoughton Mifflin, 488 pages, $24.95Anne Sexton, the troubled Massachusetts housewife who published her first serious volume of poetry in 1960 at ...

Sexton committed suicide in 1974. Kumin was devastated. “I carried Anne’s death in my pocket,” she wrote to Swan. Poet Adrienne Rich, writing of Sexton, argued that suicide wasn’t the only ...

Anne Sexton's poetry is like blood on the page, the most intimate kind of writing about depression and death, motherhood and sex, religion and family. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1967 and had a ...

In March of 1966, a camera crew visited Anne Sexton’s home. ... Carolyn Kellogg is a prize-winning writer who served as Books editor of the Los Angeles Times for three years.

Deborah Landau joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Anne Sexton’s poem “Little Girl, My Stringbean, ... So in some ways as a book into the Sexton. Kevin Young: [00:12:19] ...

A poem by Anne Sexton, published in The Atlantic in 1972. Anne Sexton began writing poetry at the suggestion of her psychiatrist. She became known for sharing the thorny details of her personal ...

Jennifer Rouse invokes a brilliant and troubled poet in her new collection, 'Riding with Anne Sexton.” These poems are much concerned with mental illness - Sexton's and Rouse's. Rouse enters ...

Anne Sexton (1928-1974) ... as a poet—she received the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967—she committed suicide soon after completing her eighth book of verse. She was born on November 9.

When Anne Sexton is remembered, writes Paula M. Salvio, it is often as a confessional poet, drawing the reader into her experiences of depression and addiction, spinning plots of adultery and ...

Linda Gray Sexton learned about depression the hard way. When she was 21, her mother, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Anne Sexton, committed suicide by inhaling carbon monoxide in the garage of their ...

The poet Anne Sexton makes a dashing, mysterious cameo in “Her Husband,” ... Ever since I finished that book, I’ve been meaning to read Middlebrook’s biography of Sexton herself.