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  • recensie: Ranne Hovius - De eenzaamheid van de waanzin - 8 Weekly (2013/06/19 00:07)
    recensie: Ranne Hovius - De eenzaamheid van de waanzin8 WeeklyVoor bijvoorbeeld de Amerikaanse confessional poets – Anne Sexton, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath –, in wier werken de eigen stoornis de hoofdmoot vormt, speelde ze een gigantische rol. Belangwekkend is dat de psychoanalyse deze schrijvers een taal ...
  • Talking Famous Female Suicide: The Right, Wrong, and Vice Way - New York Magazine (2013/06/18 10:18)
    Talking Famous Female Suicide: The Right, Wrong, and Vice WayNew York MagazineWhen the poet Anne Sexton committed suicide in 1974, a memorial service was held for her at the City College of New York, where her contemporary Adrienne Rich happened to be teaching. Rich didn't know Sexton very well, but something about the death ...and more »
  • Gary Brown: 'Somewhere between God and John Wayne' - Wickedlocal-Med Ford (2013/06/17 07:57)
    Gary Brown: 'Somewhere between God and John Wayne'Wickedlocal-Med Ford“It doesn't matter who my father was,” said American poet Anne Sexton. “It matters who I remember he was.” “My daddy,” judged singer Hank Williams Jr., “he was somewhere between God and John Wayne.” Memories of fathers don't come much better than ...
  • Mary DeWitt's glass reverse portraits include inmates, chickens - The News Journal (2013/06/14 02:28)
    Mary DeWitt's glass reverse portraits include inmates, chickensThe News JournalShe visited with a Jungian analyst who told her to continue down the same path if she wanted to “go the way of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton.” Both poets committed suicide. DeWitt made the decision to leave her family. She received a master's of fine ...
  • The Anguish in Sylvia Plath - GreaterKashmir.com (2013/06/12 13:02)
    The Anguish in Sylvia PlathGreaterKashmir.comBeing a 'confessional poet' her biographical accounts tell us how she had a great fascination for death. The concept of death developed curiosity in her. This was a passion which she shared with Anne Sexton (1928-1974), a friend and a 'confessional ...
  • 'She gave Dad his best lines' - Irish Independent (2013/06/09 21:06)
    'She gave Dad his best lines'Irish IndependentHe was a chemist's assistant who also wrote poetry, not that Mary knew that when they met. ... "People said to me, 'Do you know that he's a poet? ... And a while later, a girl at work said, 'There's a poem in The Kerryman today and you're mentioned in it'.
  • Staying Up All Night With an Adderall'd Tao Lin - Vulture (2013/06/05 18:32)
    Staying Up All Night With an Adderall'd Tao LinVultureHe tries to sell me a giant paperback of Anne Sexton's letters and “Alt Lit” poet Steve Roggenbuck's chapbook. He is waving books around. “I can't escape the drug theme,” he says. “What?” “You should put that in,” he says. “'I can't escape the drug ...and more »
  • After 10 Years On The Road, A Debut: Aoife O'Donovan's 'Fossils' - WBUR (2013/06/04 03:57)
    After 10 Years On The Road, A Debut: Aoife O'Donovan's 'Fossils'WBUROne of the standouts on “Fossils,” a haunting number called “Briar Rose” is based on an Anne Sexton poem in which Sleeping Beauty is depicted as the victim of sexual abuse by her father. In O'Donovan's rendition, the original fairy tale is evoked to ...
  • Somerville Bagel Bard Poet Lo Galluccio named Populist Poet of Cambridge - The Somerville News (2013/05/29 03:02)
    The Somerville NewsSomerville Bagel Bard Poet Lo Galluccio named Populist Poet of CambridgeThe Somerville NewsLo has developed a distinctive lyrical style of poetry and uses spoken and sung iterations for some of her pieces, especially the more surreal texts. As a page poet, Lo often likes to follow a rhyming pattern, following poets like Anne Sexton. She ...
  • Lucinda Williams interview: 'I've earned the right to say what I like' - Telegraph.co.uk (2013/05/25 00:00)
    Telegraph.co.ukLucinda Williams interview: 'I've earned the right to say what I like'Telegraph.co.ukWilliams's father is Miller Williams, a poet and academic whom she describes as “my mentor”. Born in 1953, she had a peripatetic childhood — “I had a ... I always think about Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. They both dealt with similar issues. But back ...and more »
  • Abby Rosebrock Opens Up About Writing and Starring in Her Fantastic New Play ... - BlackBook Magazine (2013/05/24 14:12)
    BlackBook MagazineAbby Rosebrock Opens Up About Writing and Starring in Her Fantastic New Play ...BlackBook MagazineAnne Sexton's poem "For My Lover, Returning to His Wife," ends with the line: "As for me, I am watercolor. I wash off." She's just addressed the letting go of love and the acceptance that she's been but a passing fancy, a mirage in a passionless period ...

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