Sexton, Anne | Anne Sexton And Maxine Kumin, Elaine Showalter, And Carol Smith (Interview Date 15 April 1974)
ANNE SEXTON AND MAXINE KUMIN, ELAINE SHOWALTER, AND CAROL SMITH (INTERVIEW DATE 15 APRIL 1974)
SOURCE: Sexton, Anne, and Maxine Kumin, Elaine Showalter, and Carol Smith. "With Maxine Kumin, Elaine Showalter, and Carol Smith." In No Evil Star: Selected Essays, Interviews, and Prose, edited by Steven E. Colburn, pp. 158-79. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1985.
In the following interview, originally conducted on April 15, 1974, and first published in the journal Women's Studies in 1976, Sexton discusses her personal and professional friendship with Kumin with respect to the rise of the women's movement and the literary successes of both poets.
Max and I
two immoderate sisters,
two immoderate writers,
two burdeners,
made a pact.
To beat death down with a stick.
To take over.
—Anne Sexton, "The Death Baby"
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