Anne Sexton

Anne Sexton (November 9, 1928, Newton, Massachusetts – October 4, 1974, Weston, Massachusetts) was an American poet, known for her highly personal, confessional verse. She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967. Themes of her poetry include her suicidal tendencies, long battle against depression and various intimate details from her private life, including her relationships with her husband and children.

Read more about Anne Sexton:  Early Life and Family, Poetry, Death, Content and Themes of Work, Subsequent Controversy

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    The cot we shared is almost a prison
    where I can’t say buttercup, bobolink,
    sugarduck, pumpkin, love ribbon, locket,
    valentine, summergirl, funnygirl and all
    those nonsense things one says in bed.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    the small town big shot who, although very short,
    who although with a cigarette-stained mustache,
    who although famous for lobster on the rocks,
    left me here, nubkin, sucking in my vodka
    and emphysema cigarettes, unable to walk
    your walks, unable to write your writes.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    I did not know the woman I would be
    nor that blood would bloom in me
    each month like an exotic flower,
    nor that children,
    two monuments,
    would break from between my legs....
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    And what of the dead? They lie without shoes
    in their stone boats. They are more like stone
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    Father, I’m thirty-six,
    yet I lie here in your crib.
    I’m getting born againdam,
    as you prod me with your rib.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)