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Anne Sexton

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Anne Sexton (November 9, 1928 – October 4, 1974) was an American poet, known for her highly personal, confessional verse. [1]

62 relations: Adrienne Rich, Americans, Barbara Swan, Bible, Bipolar disorder, Boston University, Boston Women's Heritage Trail, Carbon monoxide poisoning, Children's literature, Christopher Smart, Confessional poetry, Conrad Susa, Denise Levertov, Elsa Dorfman, Forest Hills Cemetery, Garland Junior College, George Starbuck, Grimms' Fairy Tales, Harper's Magazine, Harvard University, Hypnosis, Hysteria, Jamaica Plain, John Holmes (poet), Last rites, Libretto, Linda Gray Sexton, Live or Die (poetry collection), Lowell, Massachusetts, Major depressive disorder, Marian Seldes, Martin Theodore Orne, Maxine Kumin, Mental disorder, Mercy Street, Model (person), Morrissey, Newton, Massachusetts, Peter Gabriel, Phi Beta Kappa, Physician–patient privilege, Poet, Psychiatric hospital, Pulitzer Prize, Repressed memory, Robert Lowell, Royal Society of Literature, Saturday Review (U.S. magazine), So (album), Sodium thiopental, ..., Sylvia Plath, The Death Notebooks, The New Yorker, The Smiths, Time (magazine), Transformations (opera), United States, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, University of Texas at Arlington, University of Texas at Austin, W. D. Snodgrass, Weston, Massachusetts. Expand index (12 more) »

Adrienne Rich

Adrienne Cecile Rich (May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012) was an American poet, essayist and feminist.

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Americans

Americans are citizens of the United States of America.

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Barbara Swan

Barbara Swan (1922–2003), also known by her married name, Barbara Swan Fink, was an American painter, illustrator, and lithographer.

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Bible

The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía, "the books") is a collection of sacred texts or scriptures that Jews and Christians consider to be a product of divine inspiration and a record of the relationship between God and humans.

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Bipolar disorder

Bipolar disorder, previously known as manic depression, is a mental disorder that causes periods of depression and periods of abnormally elevated mood.

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Boston University

Boston University (commonly referred to as BU) is a private, non-profit, research university in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Boston Women's Heritage Trail

The Boston Women's Heritage Trail is a series of walking tours in Boston, Massachusetts, leading past sites important to Boston women's history.

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Carbon monoxide poisoning

Carbon monoxide poisoning typically occurs from breathing in too much carbon monoxide (CO).

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Children's literature

Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are enjoyed by children.

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Christopher Smart

Christopher Smart (11 April 1722 – 21 May 1771), was an English poet.

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Confessional poetry

Confessional poetry or "Confessionalism" is a style of poetry that emerged in the United States during the 1950s.

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Conrad Susa

Conrad Stephen Susa (April 26, 1935 – November 21, 2013) was an American composer.

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Denise Levertov

Priscilla Denise Levertov (24 October 1923 – 20 December 1997) was an American poet.

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Elsa Dorfman

Elsa Dorfman (born April 26, 1937) is an American portrait photographer who works in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Forest Hills Cemetery

Forest Hills Cemetery is a historic cemetery, greenspace, arboretum and sculpture garden located in the Forest Hills section of the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.

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Garland Junior College

Garland Junior College (1872-1976) was a liberal arts women's college in Boston, Massachusetts.

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George Starbuck

George Edwin Starbuck (June 15, 1931 in Columbus, Ohio – August 15, 1996 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama) was an American poet of the neo-formalist school.

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Grimms' Fairy Tales

The Grimms' Fairy Tales, originally known as the Children's and Household Tales (lead), is a collection of fairy tales by the Grimm brothers or "Brothers Grimm", Jacob and Wilhelm, first published on 20 December 1812.

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Harper's Magazine

Harper's Magazine (also called Harper's) is a monthly magazine of literature, politics, culture, finance, and the arts.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Hypnosis

Hypnosis is a state of human consciousness involving focused attention and reduced peripheral awareness and an enhanced capacity to respond to suggestion.

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Hysteria

Hysteria, in the colloquial use of the term, means ungovernable emotional excess.

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Jamaica Plain

Jamaica Plain is a neighborhood of in Boston, Massachusetts, US.

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John Holmes (poet)

John Holmes (January 6, 1904 – June 22, 1962), born John Albert Holmes Jr., was a poet and critic.

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Last rites

The last rites, in Catholicism, are the last prayers and ministrations given to many Catholics when possible shortly before death.

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Libretto

A libretto is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or musical.

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Linda Gray Sexton

Linda Gray Sexton (born July 21, 1953) is an American writer.

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Live or Die (poetry collection)

Live or Die is a collection of poetry by American poet Anne Sexton, published in 1966.

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Lowell, Massachusetts

Lowell is a city in the U.S. Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

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Major depressive disorder

Major depressive disorder (MDD), also known simply as depression, is a mental disorder characterized by at least two weeks of low mood that is present across most situations.

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Marian Seldes

Marian Hall Seldes (August 23, 1928 – October 6, 2014) was an American stage, film, radio, and television actress whose career spanned over 60 years.

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Martin Theodore Orne

Martin Theodore Orne, M.D., Ph.D. (October 16, 1927, Vienna, Austria – February 11, 2000, Paoli, Pennsylvania) was a professor of psychiatry and psychology at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Maxine Kumin

Maxine Kumin (June 6, 1925 – February 6, 2014) was an American poet and author.

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Mental disorder

A mental disorder, also called a mental illness or psychiatric disorder, is a behavioral or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning.

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Mercy Street

"Mercy Street" is a song written by English musician Peter Gabriel from his 1986 album So.

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Model (person)

A model is a person with a role either to promote, display or advertise commercial products (notably fashion clothing in fashion shows), or to serve as a visual aid for people who are creating works of art or to pose for photography.

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Morrissey

Steven Patrick Morrissey (born 22 May 1959), known mononymously as Morrissey, is an English singer, songwriter and author.

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Newton, Massachusetts

Newton is a suburban city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Peter Gabriel

Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian who rose to fame as the original lead singer and flautist of the progressive rock band Genesis.

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Phi Beta Kappa

The Phi Beta Kappa Society (ΦΒΚ) is the oldest academic honor society in the United States.

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Physician–patient privilege

Physician–patient privilege is a legal concept, related to medical confidentiality, that protects communications between a patient and his or her doctor from being used against the patient in court.

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Poet

A poet is a person who creates poetry.

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Psychiatric hospital

Psychiatric hospitals, also known as mental hospitals, mental health units, mental asylums or simply asylums, are hospitals or wards specializing in the treatment of serious mental disorders, such as clinical depression, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder.

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Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States.

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Repressed memory

Repressed memories are memories that have been unconsciously blocked due to the memory being associated with a high level of stress or trauma.

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Robert Lowell

Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV (March 1, 1917 – September 12, 1977) was an American poet.

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Royal Society of Literature

The Royal Society of Literature (RSL) is a learned society founded in 1820, by King George IV, to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent".

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Saturday Review (U.S. magazine)

Saturday Review, previously The Saturday Review of Literature, was an American weekly magazine established in 1924.

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So (album)

So is the fifth studio album by English singer-songwriter Peter Gabriel, released on 19 May 1986 by Charisma Records.

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Sodium thiopental

Sodium thiopental, also known as Sodium Pentothal (a trademark of Abbott Laboratories, not to be confused with pentobarbital), thiopental, thiopentone, or Trapanal (also a trademark), is a rapid-onset short-acting barbiturate general anesthetic that is an analogue of thiobarbital.

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Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer.

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The Death Notebooks

The Death Notebooks (1974) is a poetry collection by Anne Sexton, her last to be published before her death.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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The Smiths

The Smiths were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1982.

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Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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Transformations (opera)

Transformations is a chamber opera in two acts by the American composer Conrad Susa with a libretto of ten poems by Anne Sexton from her 1971 book Transformations, a collection of confessional poetry based on stories by the Brothers Grimm.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

The University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign (also known as U of I, Illinois, or colloquially as the University of Illinois or UIUC) is a public research university in the U.S. state of Illinois and the flagship institution of the University of Illinois System.

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University of Texas at Arlington

The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA or UT Arlington) is a public research university located in Arlington, Texas, midway between Dallas and Fort Worth.

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University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas at Austin (UT, UT Austin, or Texas) is a public research university and the flagship institution of the University of Texas System.

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W. D. Snodgrass

William De Witt Snodgrass (January 5, 1926 – January 13, 2009) was an American poet who also wrote under the pseudonym S. S. Gardons.

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Weston, Massachusetts

Weston is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, about 15 miles west of downtown Boston.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Sexton

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