Sleeping in fever, I am unfair 
to know just who you are: 
hung up like a pig on exhibit, 
the delicate wrists, 
the beard drooling blood and vinegar; 
hooked to your own weight, 
jolting toward death under your nameplate. 

Everyone in this crowd needs a bath. 
I am dressed in rags. 
The mother wears blue. 
You grind your teeth 
and with each new breath 
your jaws gape and your diaper sags. 
I am not to blame 
for all this. I do not know your name. 

Skinny man, you are somebody's fault. 
You ride on dark poles -- 
a wooden bird that a trader built 
for some fool who felt 
that he could make the flight. Now you roll 
in your sleep, seasick 
on your own breathing, poor old convict. 

 
Dormant dans la fièvre, je suis injuste de savoir juste qui tu es: 
raccroché comme un porc sur l'objet exposé, les poignets sensibles, 
le sang radotant de barbe et le vinaigre; accroché à votre propre 
poids, secouant vers la mort sous votre plaque signalétique. 

Chacun dans cette foule a besoin d'un bain. Je suis habillé en 
chiffons. La mère porte le bleu. Tu rectifies vos dents et avec 
chaque nouveau souffle vos mâchoires baillent et votre couche-culotte 
fléchit. Je ne dois pas blâmer du tout ceci. Je ne sais pas votre 
nom. 

Homme maigre, tu es quelqu'un défaut. Tu montes sur les poteaux 
foncés -- un oiseau en bois qu'un commerçant a construit pour un 
certain imbécile qui a estimé qu'il pourrait faire le vol. 
Maintenant tu roules dans votre sommeil, seasick sur votre propre 
respiration, vieux pauvre condamnes. 

 
Schlafend im Fieber, bin ich unfair, zu wissen, gerade wem Sie sind: 
oben gehangen wie ein Schwein auf Ausstellung, den empfindlichen 
Handgelenken, dem geifernden Blut des Bartes und Essig; angespannt zu 
Ihrem eigenen Gewicht, jolting in Richtung zum Tod unter Ihrem 
Typenschild. 

Jeder in dieser Masse benötigt ein Bad. Ich werde in den Lappen 
gekleidet. Die Mutter trägt Blau. Sie reiben Ihre Zähne und mit 
jedem neuen Atem sperren Ihre Kiefer den Mund auf und Ihre Windel 
sackt ab. Ich soll nicht für alles dieses tadeln. Ich kenne nicht 
Ihren Namen. 

Dünner Mann, sind Sie jemand Störung. Sie fahren auf dunkle Pfosten 
-- einen hölzernen Vogel, den ein Händler für irgendeinen Dummkopf 
errichtete, der glaubte, daß er den Flug bilden könnte. Jetzt rollen 
Sie in Ihrem Schlaf, seasick auf Ihrer eigenen Atmung, schlechtes 
altes überführen. 

 
Dormindo na febre, eu sou unfair saber apenas quem você é: pendurado 
acima como um porco na exibição, nos pulsos delicados, no sangue 
drooling do beard e no vinagre; enganchado a seu próprio peso, 
sacudindo para a morte sob sua placa de identificação. 

Todos nesta multidão necessita um banho. Eu sou vestido nos panos. A 
mãe desgasta o azul. Você mói seus dentes e com cada respiração 
nova suas maxilas gape e seu diaper cede. Eu não devo responsabilizar 
pelo todo o isto. Eu não sei seu nome. 

Homem skinny, você é alguém falha. Você monta em pólos escuros -- 
um pássaro de madeira que um comerciante construa para algum tolo que 
sentiu que poderia fazer o vôo. Agora você rola em seu sono, seasick 
em seu próprio respirar, velho pobre convict. 

 
Durmiendo en fiebre, soy injusto saber apenas quiénes usted es: 
colgado para arriba como un cerdo en objeto expuesto, las muñecas 
delicadas, la sangre drooling de la barba y el vinagre; enganchado a 
su propio peso, sacudiendo hacia muerte debajo de su placa de 
identificación. 

Cada uno en esta muchedumbre necesita un baño. Me visten en trapos. 
La madre usa el azul. Usted muele sus dientes y con cada nueva 
respiración sus quijadas gape y su pañal cede. No debo culpar por 
todo el esto. No sé su nombre. 

Hombre flaco, usted es alguien avería. Usted monta en los postes 
oscuros -- un pájaro de madera que un comerciante construyó para 
algún tonto que se sentía que él podría hacer el vuelo. Ahora 
usted rueda en su sueño, seasick en su propia respiración, viejo 
pobre condena. 

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• Translations: Sonata Paliulyte Embraces Emily Dickenson <b>...</b> by seretta (2013/05/02 16:29)

  This view into the translation of poems by the contemporary Lithuanian poet and actress Sonata Paliulyté, gathers aspects of her writing life to help us realize a well-rounded picture of her as an accomplished artist living in a country that is recovering from fifty years of political ..... I translated the cycle of poems, “Angels of The Love Affair”, by the American poet, Anne Sexton (1928-1974) from English into Lithuanian. ... I have slept on sand and, one fall night, a haystack.
• In which it is beautiful (a bit of <b>poetry</b> + a giveaway) | Sarah Bessey by Sarah Bessey (2013/04/25 00:15)

  not to the god of mammon, but to the one who likes to make something out of nothing. Sarah Dunning Park, 2013. 01-01-DVD1 · Sarah Dunning Park is an artist and poet living in rural Virginia. And her slim volume of poetry for mothers of small ... That you are here. That life exists, and identity. That the powerful play goes on and you will contribute a verse.” aecwilfong (at) gmail (dot) com. Anna. I have a soft spot for Anne Sexton poetry. akladd94 (at) gmail (dot) com.
• My Life: In Depth Analysis regarding <b>Anne Sexton&#39;s</b> Snow White And <b>...</b> by Lori Johnson (2013/04/18 12:58)

  In her group Transformations, Anne Sexton rewrites classic Grimms fairytales. In your girlfriend version associated with Snow White along with the Seven Dwarves, your lover highlights the truth that youngsters usually are ...
• Love <b>Poems</b> for Him Her Your Boyfriend A Girlfriend Husband and <b>...</b> by Zaianb Taffazul Hussain (2013/04/14 01:43)

  Concerning the first question, Erica Jong objects to the classification: "Whenever Anne Sexton's poems are mentioned, the term 'confessional poetry' is not far behind. It has always seemed a ... A Virginia Quarterly Review critic believed that Sexton was "a very talented poet" who was perhaps too honest: "Confession, while good for the soul, may become tiresome for the reader if not accompanied by the suggestion that something is being held back.... In [ Live or Die ] ...
• National <b>Poetry</b> Month: Featured Writer–Patty Cole | The Practice of <b>...</b> by micheleberger (2013/04/02 07:12)

  Some writers submitting poems are folks who don't consider themselves poets while others know the genre well. I want to create a space of play ... You said, God never makes mistakes. I said, I feel the same way, then ... I came to poetry by reading such poets as Mary Oliver, Betty Adcock, Rita Dove, Anne Sexton, and Bill Collins. What a line up, and what ... this poem. It's simple, but hopefully, gets my emotions across…my husband has sleep apnea. A Good Morning.
• Banjo52: <b>Anne Sexton&#39;s</b> "Letter Written on a Ferry <b>While</b> Crossing <b>...</b> by Banjo52 (2013/03/04 10:36)

  Letter Written on a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound by Anne Sexton : The Poetry Foundation ... However, while I hear some comedy in certain details, I think the overall picture is respectful. ... the “KEEP OFF” sign that convinces her to live because she has eyes to presumably see how the world tries to deny her existence; the nuns as infants with only their “holy wrist, that ankle, that chain” to keep them from nothingness; the strange prayer of “Oh God, though I ...
• Tao Lin Talks to Tyrant Re: “Taipei” | VICE United States by unknown (2013/01/04 12:14)

  PART I: ANNE SEXTON. VICE: Were you happier before, during, or after writing Taipei? Tao Lin: I think... after. After? Yeah. Why? During… I got into a routine of doing like 80 to 120 milligrams of Adderall and not sleeping for like 36 hours. Then using Xanax or Klonopin and ... I remember reading Elizabeth Wurtzel's memoir, More, Now, Again, about her trying to write a book while using a lot of Ritalin and feeling interested because it was like what I was doing. Except she was writing a ...
• In Which We Embark On An Unsettling Endeavor - Home - This <b>...</b> by Alex (2012/12/26 07:10)

  The two poets met at a seminar in 1958, ten years after Alfred Sexton II, who called himself “Kayo,” turned Anne's pen name from the forgettable Harvey into the Sexton that now accompanies almost any image of a witch in poetry. Anne and Sylvia had much more in ... The two always talked about the seminar and its professor, their confessional predecessor Robert Lowell, while downing at least “three martinis,” as Anne remembers. Another student from the seminar, ...
• Order An Essay: The First The Starry Night, by <b>Anne Sexton</b> (1961) by Hailey Barnes (2012/11/09 07:32)

  The First The Starry Night, by Anne Sexton (1961). The poet also uses personification to posit nature come alive. The moon is personified, as its uses its "orange press / to push children, like a god from its eye" (Sexton 1961, 1) ...
• Morris Pearson Blog - <b>Anne Sexton</b>: The Complete <b>Poems</b> (Anne <b>...</b> by admin (2012/11/07 23:05)

  For Eleanor Boylan Talking With God For God While Sleeping For John, Who Begs Me Not To Enquire Further For Johnny Pole On The Forgotten Beach For Mr. Death Who Stands With His Door Open For My Lover, Returning ...
• Quotes Heaven: <b>Poetry</b> by Howard (2012/10/08 10:48)

  T.S. Eliot, Poems: 1909-1925 “There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it” ― Gustave Flaubert “Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.” ― Anne Sexton “What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry ..... each time someone knocks at the door or rings the bell a house that blows into the air at the slightest gust that buries itself deep in the ground while everyone is sleeping grief is a house where no on can protect you where the younger sister
• Poetics: &#39;OUR Music&#39; | dVerse by poemsofhateandhope (2012/05/05 11:59)

  very cool prompt stu… music is powerful and touches us on many levels…love the picasso painting and the ann sexton poem you bring as examples as well…this is going to be a prompt that rocks the place…looking forward to what everyone comes up with.. Reply .... Thanks Shawna- god- Anne Sexton- what a writer- just how she captured those feelings, those emotions- and such a tough life…amazing and sad ... How can I sleep now with that funny song..ha..ha .
• <b>Anne Sexton</b>: Connoisseur of Sucide: Flirting with Death by Michelle London (2012/04/18 09:15)

  Connoisseur of Sucide: Flirting with Death. "Suicidal Anne". Fun Facts! * Anne Sexton was known as the most “confessional” poets of her time. *Anne Sexton was also one of the most criticized beacuse she used graphic images! ... and after it had slept a while it woke to the wings of the roses and was transformed. Later, when you face old age and its natural conclusion your courage will still be shown in the little ways, each spring will be a sword you'll sharpen,
• Dragonfly&#39;s <b>Poetry</b> & Prolixity: Frenzy by <b>Anne Sexton</b> & Psalm 91 by Marion (2011/12/04 08:19)

  As swimmers dare / to lie face to the sky / and water bears them, / as hawks rest upon air / and air sustains them, / so would I learn to attain / freefall, and float / into Creator Spirit's deep embrace, / knowing no effort earns
• 10 Dead <b>Poets</b> (I Would Fuck) | poetrycrush by ----- (2011/10/23 06:58)

  for Anne Sexton. I hear your laugh as gentle bells; escalating pitch to mocking as I read your book in darkness. Me, odd teenager unashamed of being seen reading poems in public, reduced to straining eyes to read by moonlight, to keep this ... I imagine Berryman, the poet — Would it be more aesthetically appealing if you placed your hand on my left buttocks and I moved counter-clockwise while smoking a pipe? .... Holdfasts are god's forgotten anchors. I scratch the ...
• <b>Poetry</b> Rules: <b>Anne Sexton&#39;s</b> "Briar Rose". An Armor of Words. by Alessandra Bava (2011/07/04 03:18)

  Consider a girl who keeps slipping off, arms limp as old carrots, into the hypnotist's trance, into a spirit world speaking with the gift of tongues. She is stuck in the time machine, suddenly two years old sucking her thumb, ...
• The X Spot: Silly Crostics Answers by X. Dell (2011/06/20 21:39)

  Despite its faults it leaves us all charmed. Double acrostics prove just as challenging to the a-list poet. As exemplified by Anne Sexton, in an early draft of her poem “For God, While Sleeping”: Sleeping in fever, I am unfit
• Essay: All My Pretty Ones by <b>Anne Sexton</b> - Book Review by nadeemalim (2011/05/02 20:41)

  What was important was that I was able to grasp what her poems were conveying. The poems that caught my attention were 'Lament,' 'For God While Sleeping,' 'Old,' 'The Hangman,' 'In the Deep Museum,' and 'Letter Written ...
• Wanting To Die By <b>Anne Sexton</b> | Depression - healthadvicevault.com by admin (2011/04/28 20:06)

  ... of Anne Sexton?s third. Sexton had many reasons to want to feel distant from God, such as her non-functional. wanting to die by anne sexton Anne Gray Harvey was born in Newton, Massachusetts, in 1928 ... While reading Anne Sexton's poetry it is easy to see how her work has been labeled wanting to die by anne sexton Confessional. "Wanting to Die" as with all .... FRANCE 24 Health - The science of sleep: Tired teens risk depression. Dannika'culloch 06:32am ...
• Favorite Lines - <b>Poetry</b> Society of America by unknown (2011/04/06 00:00)

  Here at the @Poetry_Society, we're rounding-out week one of National Poetry Month, so today we asked our followers to share the "line of poetry that made you fall in love with the art". With close .... the poem. @bellafranco: "Perhaps the stars are little paper cutups made by some giant scissors, I do not know" Anne Sexton ... @CrackintheLens: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore--
• The Complete <b>Poems</b>: <b>Anne Sexton</b> - The Sheila Variations by sheila (2011/03/31 06:55)

  My own struggle with Anne Sexton, for twenty years now, has not been about her subject matter (she is the one who taught me that you can write a poem about anything), but about the blatant deterioration of her talent. Sexton's ... you lean above the plastic sky, god of our block, prince of all the foxes. The breaking crowns are new that Jack wore. Your third eye moves among us and lights the separate boxes where we sleep or cry. What large children we are here.
• Poll: <b>Anne Sexton</b> or Sylvia Plath – Which <b>Poet</b> Would You Rather <b>...</b> by Oliver Miller (2011/03/18 12:12)

  Anne Sexton. Date of birth: November 9, 1928. Place of birth: Newton, Massachusetts. Sexy job before she became a professional poet: Former professional model. Awards won as a poet: Pulitzer, Guggenheim, National Book Award nominee. ... and the woman climbs into a flower and swallows its stem and Logos appears and unleashes their rivers. This man, this woman with their double hunger, have tried to reach through the curtain of God and briefly they have,
• Sylvia&#39;s Death : the Inspiration of <b>Anne Sexton&#39;s Poetry</b> <b>...</b> by ijustalittlegirl (2011/02/04 21:53)

  American poets of the 1950s such as Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, and Anne Sexton, sometimes referred to as “confessional poets,” began to write openly of domestic problems, mental illness, divorce, and family strife (Microsoft Encarta, ... By the early 1970s, the theme of her poetry started to be the discussion of death and suicide,The Death Notebooks (1974) and The Awful Rowing Toward God (1975). ... Here, she wrote how she would die like the sleeping virgin.
• Random Acts of <b>Poetry</b>: The <b>Poems</b> We Come From | The High Calling by Glynn Young (2010/09/24 04:59)

  And we ended up with poems inspired by the poetry of Robert Frost, Luci Shaw, Shakespeare's MacBeth, Anne Sexton, King David (Psalm 86), Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes (we think), John Milton, Walt Whitman and Johnny Cash ... I knew all there was of God, but I didn't know the end,. or the middle, or the next page torn from the well-planned life I saw. Faith sloughed off tattered, worn, and came instead alive and raw... (Does that sound like Dickinson, or what?) ...
• In Which We Experience The Jumping Catfish Love of <b>Anne Sexton</b> <b>...</b> by Alex (2010/07/25 08:38)

  Living off Kayo's parents and then with her husband supporting her, Anne began to pursue her poetry, taking her first class with the mercurial poet John Holmes. ... And I write in a hurry because it is snowing and because this morning I received a letter from you and I because I would rather write to you this moment than sleep with Apollo or even go outside and measure the snow on the ..... Sexton: I came trembling, thinking, oh dear god, with the most ghastly poems.
• Snarke: Sylvia Plath&#39;s Cubist Collage <b>Poetry</b> by pugetopolis (2009/05/11 13:26)

  Plath praises Anne Sexton's All My Pretty Ones for being womanly in the greatest sense” and “blessedly unliterary.” Poems such as “For God While Sleeping,” “Letter written during a January Northeaster,” “The Black Art,” and ...
• sylvia plath & <b>anne sexton</b> - <b>poetry</b> dispatch & other notes from the <b>...</b> by gron (2009/05/06 02:53)

  sylvia plath & anne sexton | the art & the artists of self destruction no. 1. 6 05 2009. Poetry Dispatch No. 280 | May 5, 2009. The Art & The Artists of Self Destruction, #1 .... Sometimes I think that when I am sleeping. I must most perfectly resemble them— ... The book's protagonist, Esther Greenwood, is a bright, ambitious student at Smith College who begins to experience a mental breakdown while interning for a fashion magazine in New York. The plot parallels Plath's experience ...
• Pamela <b>Ann</b> Melroy (Colonel, USAF, RET.): AllPoetry by Pamela Ann Melroy (Colonel, USAF, RET.) (2008/10/14 15:12)

  On October 4, 1974, after completing her last collection of poems “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Anne Sexton committed suicide by asphyxiation from carbon monoxide in her garage. Works ... (For God While Sleeping) Morbid: “'The baby turned to ice./ Someone put her in the refrigerator/ and she turned as hard as a Popsicle'” (The Death Baby) Groups or Movements Anne Sexton was a participant of the 'confessionalists' movement of poetry. Confessional poets ...
• Courage by <b>Anne Sexton</b> | Nursery Rhymes and <b>Poems</b> by admin (2008/06/05 05:05)

  and after it had slept a while it woke to the wings of the roses and was transformed. Later, when you face old age and its natural conclusion your courage will still be shown in the little ways, each spring will be a sword you'll sharpen, those you ...
• "The Awful Rowing Toward <b>God</b>" by <b>Anne Sexton</b> (excerpt <b>...</b> - Blogster by unknown (2008/05/13 14:47)

  "The Awful Rowing Toward God" by Anne Sexton (excerpt). Added: Tuesday, May 13th 2008 at 2:47pm by anacoana. Related Tags: poetry, art. Courage. It is in the small things we see it. The child's first step, as awesome as an earthquake. The first time ... and after it had slept a while it woke to the wings of the roses and was transformed. Later, when you face old age and its natural conclusion your courage will still be shown in the little ways, each spring will be a sword you'll sharpen,
• Life Lines- <b>Poets</b>.org - <b>Poetry</b>, <b>Poems</b>, Bios & More by unknown (2008/03/20 09:56)

  Anne Sexton William Shakespeare Jason Shinder Charles Simic William Stafford Wallace Stevens Mark Strand Wislawa Szymborska Henry Taylor Lord Alfred Tennyson Dylan Thomas Robert Penn Warren Walt Whitman C. K. Williams .... This poem, supposedly copied into Raleigh's Bible the night before his execution in 1628, is talismanic for me because of the way the lines are both an act of contrition and humility before God, as well as a gesture of defiance toward the executioner.
• Sylvia Plath: Biography from Answers.com by unknown (2007/10/26 17:34)

  For a while she attended Robert Lowell's poetry seminar, where she met Anne Sexton. Sexton's and Lowell's ..... Following electroconvulsive therapy for depression, Plath made her first medically documented suicide attempt in late August 1953 by crawling under her house and taking her mother's sleeping pills. She survived this first suicide attempt ... Plath described Hughes as "a singer, story-teller, lion and world-wanderer" with "a voice like the thunder of God". Nights, I squat in the ...
• scriptophobia: closet blogger: <b>poem</b> by <b>Anne Sexton</b> by brooklyn (2007/08/28 11:08)

  For God While Sleeping / Sleeping in fever, I am unfair / to know just who you are: / hung up like a pig on exhibit, / the delicate wrists, / the beard drooling blood and vinegar; / hooked to your own weight, / jolting toward death ...
• Briar Rose (<b>Sleeping</b> Beauty) by <b>Anne Sexton</b> - The <b>Sleeping</b> <b>...</b> by Melissa (2007/07/31 23:59)

  Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty) by Anne Sexton. Sexton, Anne. "Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty)." Transformations. Houghton Mifflin Co., 1979. Click here to read the poem. Sexton's poem deals with father/daughter rape while also telling the ...
• <b>For God While Sleeping Poem Anne Sexton Poems</b> by love poems (2002/01/31 17:00)

  Poem For God While Sleeping by anne sexton. You can see more Anne Sexton poems and quotes. Also enjoy funny, love, friendship, family poems. You can see more famous poems by this author : Dreaming The Breasts, Oh, A Story For ...
• End, Middle, Beginning <b>Poem Anne Sexton Poems</b> by love poems (2002/01/31 17:00)

  Poem End, Middle, Beginning by anne sexton. You can see ... You can see more famous poems by this author : Doors, Doors, Doors, Flee On Your Donkey, Unknown Girl In A Maternity Ward, And One For My Dame, For God While Sleeping, .
• And One For My Dame <b>Poem Anne Sexton Poems</b> by love poems (2001/01/31 17:00)

  while the radio fought its battles with Nazis and Japs. / Except when he hid / in his bedroom on a three-day drunk, / he typed out complex itineraries, packed his trunk, / his matched luggage / and pocketed a co nfirmed reservation, / his heart ...
• Flee On Your Donkey <b>Poem Anne Sexton Poems</b> by love poems (2001/01/31 17:00)

  You can see more Anne Sexton poems and quotes. Also enjoy funny, love, friendship, family poems. You can see more famous poems by this author : Unknown Girl In A Maternity Ward, And One For My Dame, For God While Sleeping, ...

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