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because you lied to God outrightly—
told him that all things on earth were in order—
He turned his wrath upon you and said,
I will make you the most loathsome.... - Anne Sexton Attribution: Anne Sexton (1928–1974), U.S. poet. “Cockroach.”

Categories: Cockroaches, Insects, Wrath Of God

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Encyclopedia:

• Sexton, Anne (The Oxford Companion to American Literature)
• Sexton, Anne (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)
• Sexton, Anne (The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales)

Salem on Literature:

• Anne Sexton (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
• Anne Sexton (Critical Survey of Poetry)
• Anne Sexton (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Anne Sexton (Dictionary of World Biography: The 20th Century)
• Anne Sexton (Identities and Issues in Literature)

Literary Criticism:

• Sexton, Anne (Vol. 15) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Sexton, Anne (Vol. 123) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Sexton, Anne (Vol. 4) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Sexton, Anne (Vol. 6) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Sexton, Anne (Vol. 2) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Sexton, Anne (Vol. 10) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Sexton, Anne (Vol. 8) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)

Calendar of Literary Facts:

• Anne Sexton is born
• Anne Sexton publishes Live or Die
• Anne Sexton receives the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Live or Die
• Anne Sexton dies