Anne Sexton (Identities and Issues in Literature)
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A beautiful woman, Anne Sexton spent parts of her youth modeling. Beginning as a teenager, however, she had periods of depression, causing her to seek therapeutic help. Her second psychiatrist recommended that she write poetry as therapy. Little did he know what talent he had unleashed, and what a preoccupation Sexton would develop regarding her poetry. At one time in her life, she said that she had her children and her poetry, and someone else could always take care of the former.
Fairly quickly, she began to publish. She also met influential poets for...
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