| Description |
1 online resource (xxvi, 242 pages) |
| Contents |
"You, I, we created the poet": November 1963 -- Did Anne Sexton kill John F. Kennedy? late November 1963 -- Holding hands and letting go: the road to "flee on your donkey": December 10-12, 1963 -- "This terrible ideal of the happy family": December 14-19, 1963 -- Dancing for your doctor: notes on narcissism: December 21-24, 1963 -- The black pants and the new bikini: oedipal scripts: February-March 1964 -- "The discovery of a human being": April 21-28, 1964 -- Flash forward: an epilogue: July 1964-February 1965 |
| Summary |
In 1956, Anne Sexton was admitted into a mental hospital for post-partum depression, where she met Dr. Martin Orne, a young psychiatrist who treated her for the next eight years. In that time Sexton would blossom into a world-famous poet, best known for her ""confessional"" poems dealing with personal subjects not often represented in poetry at that time: mental illness, depression, suicide, sex, abortion, women's bodies, and the ordinary lives of mothers and housewives. Orne audiotaped the last three years of her therapy to facilitate her ability to remember their sessions. The final six m |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Sexton, Anne, 1928-1974 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Sexton, Anne, 1928-1974 fast |
| Subject |
POETRY -- American -- General.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sexton, Anne, 1928-1974.
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| ISBN |
9780203833988 |
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0203833988 |
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9781136847134 |
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1136847138 |
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