Anne Gray Harvey Sexton, American poet and playwright, was born in Newton, Massachusetts, the daughter of Ralph Harvey, a successful woolen manufacturer, and Mary Gray Staples. Sexton is known for her highly personal, confessional verse. She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967 for her book Live or Die.
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Father, you died once, salted down at fifty-nine, packed down like a big snow angel, wasn't that enough? Go to Quote / Comment
All considerations for these human remains! They must have an escort! They are classified! Go to Quote / Comment
Don't look now, God, we're all right. All the suicides are eating Black Bean Soup;... Go to Quote / Comment
I tied down time with a rope but it came back.... Go to Quote / Comment
For God was as large as a sunlamp and laughed his heat at us and therefore we did not cringe at the death hole. Go to Quote / Comment