美国 人物列表
非马 William Marr爱伦·坡 Edgar Alan Poe爱默生 Ralph Waldo Emerson
惠特曼 Walt Whitman狄更生 Emily Dickinson斯蒂芬·克兰 Stephan Crane
史蒂文斯 Wallace Stevens弗罗斯特 Robert Frost卡尔·桑德堡 Carl Sandberg
威廉斯 William Carlos Williams庞德 Ezra Pound杜丽特尔 Hilda Doolittle
奥登 Wystan Hugh Auden卡明斯 E. E. Cummings哈特·克莱恩 Hart Crane
罗伯特·邓肯 Robert Duncan查尔斯·奥尔森 Charles Olson阿门斯 A. R. Ammons
金斯堡 Allen Ginsberg约翰·阿什伯利 John Ashbery詹姆斯·泰特 James Tate
兰斯敦·休斯 Langston Hughes默温 W. S. Merwin罗伯特·勃莱 Robert Bly
毕肖普 Elizabeth Bishop罗伯特·洛威尔 Robert Lowell普拉斯 Sylvia Plath
约翰·贝里曼 John Berryman安妮·塞克斯顿 Anne Sexton斯诺德格拉斯 W. D. Snodgrass
弗兰克·奥哈拉 Frank O'Hara布洛茨基 L.D. Brodsky艾米·洛威尔 Amy Lowell
埃德娜·圣文森特·米蕾 Edna St. Vincent Millay萨拉·梯斯苔尔 Sara Teasdale马斯特斯 Edgar Lee Masters
威廉·斯塔福德 William Stafford艾德里安娜·里奇 Adrienne Rich大卫·伊格内托 David Ignatow
金内尔 Galway Kinnell西德尼·拉尼尔 Sidney Lanier霍华德·奈莫洛夫 Howard Nemerov
玛丽·奥利弗 Mary Oliver阿奇波德·麦克里许 阿奇波德麦 Kerry Xu杰弗斯诗选 Robinson Jeffers
露易丝·格丽克 Louise Glück凯特·莱特 Kate Light施加彰 Arthur Sze
李立扬 Li Young Lee斯塔夫理阿诺斯 L. S. Stavrianos阿特 Art
费翔 Kris Phillips许慧欣 eVonne杰罗姆·大卫·塞林格 Jerome David Salinger
巴拉克·奥巴马 Barack Hussein Obama朱瑟琳·乔塞尔森 Josselson, R.詹姆斯·泰伯 詹姆斯泰伯
威廉·恩道尔 Frederick William Engdahl马克·佩恩 Mark - Payne拉吉-帕特尔 Raj - Patel
安妮·塞克斯顿 Anne Sexton
美国 冷战中的美国  (1928年11月9日1974年10月4日)

诗词《她那一类 Her Kind》   《赞美我的子宫》   《给Y医生的信》   《绝望 Despair》   《真理唯逝者知道》   《星夜 at night》   《你,马丁医生 You, Doctor Martin》   《好先生:这些树林 Kind Sir: These Woods》   《流产》   
安妮·塞克斯顿诗选读:我生命的房间
《我生命的房间》(The Room of My Life)

阅读安妮·塞克斯顿 Anne Sexton在诗海的作品!!!
塞克斯顿
  她是美国著名的诗人,1928年11月9日出生于马萨诸塞州,这个州似乎出了很多出名的女诗人,艾米丽·狄金森、毕肖普都来自此州。在家中的三个姊妹中她是老幺,这个天生充满灵性的小孩在19岁时就嫁给了Alfred Muller Sexton,他们的婚姻一直维持到1973年。
  
  她一度由于精神压抑而企图自杀,后遵医嘱开始写诗。她进入诗歌这一领域较晚,大概是在她28时才开始广泛接触诗歌。在波士顿的写作班里,她认识了西尔维娅·普拉斯,她们都师从Robert Lowell(罗维尔),她们的作品也多写个人的经历、个人的婚姻问题、个人与父母的关系以及精神疾病带来的困扰。在普拉斯自杀后,塞克斯顿曾写下诗歌悼念她,而不久,她也奔赴和她相同的道路。两个人不仅在精神上支持着彼此,连灵魂都渗透到对方的生活里。
  
  尽管我只阅读了两三首她的诗,还无法精确地说出她的好。但我可以强烈感受到她诗歌中强烈而纯粹的美。日常生活的情感经验中,有不可思议的意象在跳动,只要你阅读她,你一定能够听到她独特的声音。


  Anne Sexton (November 9, 1928, Newton, Massachusetts—October 4, 1974, Weston, Massachusetts), born Anne Gray Harvey, was an American poet and writer.
  
  Personal life
  
  Sexton was born in Newton, Massachusetts, and spent most of her life near Boston, Massachusetts. In 1945, Sexton began attending a boarding school, Rogers Hall, in Lowell, Massachusetts. For a time as a young woman, she modeled at Boston's Hart Agency. Although she was already engaged to someone else, in August 1948 she eloped with Alfred Muller Sexton, known as "Kayo." The couple drove from Massachusetts to North Carolina, where the legal marrying age was 18. Before their divorce in the early 1970s, she had two children with Kayo: Linda Gray Sexton, later a novelist and memoirist, and Joyce Sexton. Controversy was stirred with the posthumous public release of tapes recorded during Sexton's psychotherapy (and thus subject to doctor-patient confidentiality), in which Sexton revealed incestuous contact with her daughter.
  
  Illness and subsequent career
  
  Sexton spoke candidly about her battle with bipolar disorder, which she fought for most of her life. Her first manic episode took place in 1954. After a second breakdown in 1955, she met Dr. Martin Orne, who was to become her longtime therapist, at Glenside Hospital. Sexton believed she was not valuable except in her ability to please men and told Orne in her first interview that her only talent might be for prostitution. He later told her that his evaluation showed that she had a creative side and encouraged her to take up poetry. Though she was very nervous about it and needed a friend to make the phone call and accompany her to the first workshop, she enrolled in her first poetry workshop with John Holmes as the instructor. Writing poetry became part of her therapy and her livelihood.
  
  After the workshop, Sexton experienced remarkably quick success with her poetry, with her poems accepted by The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, and the Saturday Review.
  
  Sexton's poetic life was further encouraged by her mentor, W.D. Snodgrass, whom she met at the Antioch Writer's Conference in 1957. His poem, "Heart's Needle", about his separation from his three year old daughter, encouraged her to write "The Double Image," a poem significant in expressing the multi-generational relationships existing between mother and daughter. "Heart's Needle" was particularly inspirational to Sexton because at the time she first read it her own young daughter was living with her mother-in-law. Sexton began writing letters to Snodgrass and they soon became friends.
  
  While working with Holmes, Sexton encountered Maxine Kumin, with whom she became good friends throughout the rest of her life. Kumin and Sexton rigorously critiqued each other's work, and wrote four children's books together.
  
  With Sylvia Plath, she attended a poetry workshop taught by Robert Lowell in 1957. Plath and Sexton remained friends. This relationship is alluded to in the poem "Sylvia's Death" written after Plath's suicide. Later, Sexton herself taught workshops at Boston University, Oberlin College, and Colgate University.
  
  In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the manic elements of Sexton's illness began to affect her career. She still wrote and published work and gave readings of her poetry. She also collaborated with some musicians, forming the group Anne Sexton and Her Kind, who were working to put some of her writing to music.
  
  Content and themes of work
  
  Sexton is the modern model of the confessional poet. She was inspired by the publication of Snodgrass' Heart's Needle. Her work encompasses issues specific to women such as menstruation and abortion, and more broadly masturbation and adultery, before such subjects were commonly addressed in poetic discourse.
  
  The title for her eighth collection of poetry and one of her last writings, The Awful Rowing Toward God, came from her meeting with a Roman Catholic priest who, although unwilling to administer the last rites, did tell her: "God is in your typewriter," which gave the poet the desire and willpower to continue living and writing for some more time. Her last writings expressed her strange hunger for death: The Death Notebooks and The Awful Rowing Toward God.
  
  Death
  
  On October 4, 1974 Sexton had lunch with Maxine Kumin to review her most recent book, The Awful Rowing Toward God. Upon returning home, she locked herself in her garage, started the engine of her car and committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.
  
  In an interview over a year before her death she explained she had written the first drafts of The Awful Rowing Toward God in twenty days with "two days out for despair and three days out in a mental hospital." She went on to say that she would not allow the poems to be published before her death.
  
  She is buried at Forest Hills Cemetery & Crematory in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts.
  
  Award
  
  Audience magazine's annual poetry prize (1959)
  
  Poetry magazine's Levinson Prize (1962)
  
  National Book Award nomination for All My Pretty Ones (1963)
  
  American Academy of Arts and Letters' traveling fellowship (1963)
  
  Ford Foundation grant (1963)
  
  Shelley Memorial Prize for Live or Die (1967)
  
  Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Live or Die (1967)
  
  Guggenheim Foundation grant (1969)
  
  Tufts University's Doctor of Letters (1970)
  
  Crashaw Chair in Literature from Colgate University (1972)
  
  Bibliography
  
  To Bedlam and Part Way Back (1960)
  
  All My Pretty Ones (1962)
  
  Live or Die (1966) - Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1967
  
  Love Poems (1969)
  
  Mercy Street, a 2-act play performed at the American Place Theatre (1969)
  
  Transformations (1971) ISBN 0-618-08343-X
  
  The Book of Miguel Flores' Dad (1972) ISBN 0-395-14014-5
  
  The Death Notebooks (1974)
  
  The Awful Rowing Toward God (1975; posthumous)
  
  45 Mercy Street (1976; posthumous)
  
  Words for Dr. Y. (1978; posthumous)
  
  Children's Book
  
  all co-written with Maxine Kumin
  
  1963 Eggs of Things (illustrated by Leonard Shortall)
  
  1964 More Eggs of Things (illustrated by Leonard Shortall)
  
  1974 Joey and the Birthday Present (illustrated by Evaline Ness)
  
  1975 The Wizard's Tears (illustrated by Evaline Ness)
  
  Reference
  
  ^ Psychiatrist Criticized Over Release Of Poet's Psychotherapy Tapes By Ken Hausman
  
  ^ Anne Sexton: A Biography by Diane Wood Middlebrook
  
  ^ Anne Sexton
  
  Further reading
  
  Diane Wood Middlebrook Anne Sexton: A Biography, 1992, ISBN 0-679-74182-8
  
  Linda Gray Sexton Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother 1994.
  
  Philip McGowan Anne Sexton & Middle Generation Poetry: The Geography of Grief
  
  Paula M Salvio Anne Sexton: teacher of weird abundance, ISBN 0-791-47097-0
  
  Jo Gill Anne Sexton's Confessional Poetics
  
  Miscellaneou
  
  Conrad Susa composed an opera called Transformations, based on Sexton's collection of poems by the same name.
  
  British musician Peter Gabriel wrote a song, "Mercy Street", dedicated to Sexton in 1986. Richard Shindell included a cover of the song on his 2007 album South of Delia. Happy Rhodes has also covered the song in live performances.
  
  Dave Matthews has said that the song "Grey Street", from the album Busted Stuff (2002), is inspired by Sexton.
  
  During a 2007 concert in Boston, Morrissey stated that he felt privileged to "trod the same streets as Anne Sexton. She died for you, you know. And for me."
    

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