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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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Quote Left But you you go ahead, go on, go on back down... Quote Right
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Quote Left Don't look now, God, we're all right. All the suicides are eating Black Bean Soup;... Quote Right
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Quote Left Ms. Dog wouldn't give them her buttocks. She would moon at them.... Quote Right
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Quote Left Why do you gather, my townsmen? There is no news here.... Quote Right
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Quote Left And what of the dead? They lie without shoes in their stone boats. They are more like stone Quote Right
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