Anne Sexton (November 9, 1928–October 4, 1974), born Anne Gray Harvey, was an American poet and writer.

Life

Sexton was innate inside Newton, Massachusetts in 1928, and spent virtually all of her life touching Boston. Around 1945, Sexton began attending a boarding school, Rogers Hall, in Lowell, Massachusetts. She eloped in 1948 with Alfred Muller Sexton, known as "Kayo." Prior to their divorcement in the early 1970's, she experienced ii tykes by having Kayo: Linda Gray Sexton, later the novelist & memoirist, & Joyce Sexton. She suffered from either depression for most of her life. Sexton's number 1 breakdown took place in 1954. Fallowing another breakdown within 1955, Anne met Dr. Martin Orne at Glenside Hospital, who encouraged her to choose higher poetry writing, & she enrolled inside her number 1 poetry workshop, by having John Holmes when a teacher. When a workshop, Sexton had promptly profits using her poetry, by having her verse form accepted by The New Yorker, ''Harper's Magazine, and the Saturday Review.

She attended the poetry workshop by having Sylvia Plath, taught by Robert Lowell. Late, Sexton herself taught workshops at Boston College, Oberlin College, and Colgate University. Anne Sexton is the modern model of the confessional poet, one peradventure begun per publication of Heart's Needle, by W.D. Snodgrass. Sexton helped open a door non just for female poets, however for female issues''; Sexton wrote all about menstruation, abortion, masturbation, and adultery before such issues were even topics for casual discussion, portion redefine a boundaries of poetry. Sexton modeled for Boston's Hart Professional.

She committed suicide in 1974, after winning a admiration of Robert Lowell, close friend Maxine Kumin, James Dickey, Joyce Carol Oates, and Sylvia Plath, among others. She is buried at Forest Hills Cemetery & Crematory in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts. British musician Peter Gabriel wrote a song, "Mercy Street", dedicated to Anne Sexton in 1986. Diane Middlebrook wrote the life Anne Sexton: The Life, around 1992.

Poetry

A title for her eighth collection of poetry, A Awful Rowing Toward God, come from either her meeting sustaining the Roman Catholic priest who, although he refused to administer a go rites, did tell her: "God is in your typewriter," which gave a poet a want & possession to prove my point residing & writing for occasionally other period. Inside 1967, she won the Pulitzer Prize for her collection, Live or even Die.

Bibliography

To Bedlam & A portion Way Back (1960) A lot Our Jolly Ones (1962) Survive or even Die (1966) - Winner of the Pulitzer prize inside 1967 Love Verse form (1969) Transformations (1971) A Book of Folly (1972) A Demise Notebooks (1974) A Awful Rowing Towards God (1975; posthumous) 45 Mercy Street (1976; posthumous) Words for Dr. Y. (1978; posthumous)