Anne Sexton

Anne Sexton , of her true name Anne Gray Harvey , born the November 9th 1928 and deceased the October 4th 1974, is a writer E and American Poète E.

Biography

Anne Sexton was born in 1928 with Norton, in the Massachusetts, and passed the major part of her existence in the surroundings of Boston. In 1945, it integrates a boarding school, the Rogers Hall School , with Lowell in the Massachusetts. It Marie in 1948 with Alfred Muller Sexton, known under the pseudonym of “Kayo”. They will have together, before their divorce at the beginning of the Années 1970, two children: Linda Gray Sexton, which will be later novelist, and Joyce Sexton.

Most of the life of Anne Sexton will be tormented by the depression. Its first nervous breakdown occurs in 1954. After a second depressive episode in 1955, it meets Doctor Martin Orne at the hospital of Glenside, which encourages it to write poetry, which it does while being registered with its first workshop of poetry, animated by the poet John Holmes. Following this work in workshop of writing, the poems of Anne Sexton meet a certain success, since it obtains publications in prestigious reviews with the the United States, the such New Yorker , Harper' S Magazine , and Saturday Review . Its poetic creativity is encouraged by its mentor, W.D. Snodgrass, of which the poem Heart' S Needle inspired Anne Sexton for the writing of the text The Double Image , a particularly outstanding poem on the relationship between mother and girl.

Within the framework of the workshop of poetry of John Holmes, Anne Sexton meets the poetess Maxine Kumin, to which it will remain close until the end to its days. The two women, who will not cease helping each other in their respective literary work, write four books for children together.

Anne Sexton moreover attended a workshop of poetry at the same time as the poetess Sylvia Plath, animated by the poet Robert Lowell. Later, Anne Sexton will direct itself of the workshops of poetry to the Boston College, the Oberlin College, and the Université of Colgate.

Anne Sexton incarnates the modern figure of the poet confessionnalist. She opened not only the way for the poetesses, but she also, by her writing, contributed to raising the veil on the specifically female problems. Its writings evoke in particular the Avortement, the Menstruation S, the female masturbation and the Adultère, well before these subjects are tolerated, accepted or standardized. In that, she hustled and pushed back the borders of poetry.

She commits suicide in 1974. She rests in the cemetery of Forest Hills, in the surroundings of Boston.

The British musician Peter Gabriel wrote in 1986 a song dedicated to Anne Sexton, entitled Mercy Street .

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