Anne Sexton war eine US-amerikanische Dichterin, die zu den Vertretern der „Confessional Poetry“ gezählt wird. Wikipedia
“The tongue, the Chinese say,
is like a sharp knife:
it kills
without drawing blood.”
"The Dead Heart"
The Awful Rowing Toward God (1975)
"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"
Transformations (1971)
"Her Kind"
To Bedlam and Part Way Back (1960)
“There is rust in my mouth,
the stain of an old kiss.”
"The Lost Lie" from The Divorce Papers
45 Mercy Street (1976)
"Killing the Love" from The Divorce Papers
45 Mercy Street (1976)
“Dearest,
although everything has happened,
nothing has happened.”
"Letter Written on a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound"
All My Pretty Ones (1962)
"As It Was Written" from Last Poems
Poems 1971-1973 (1981)
"Waking Alone" from The Divorce Papers
45 Mercy Street (1976)
“I imitate
a memory of belief
that I do not own.”
"The Division of Parts"
To Bedlam and Part Way Back (1960)
"You All Know the Story of the Other Woman"
Love Poems (1969)
"Eighteen Days Without You": December 18th
Love Poems (1969)
"Admonitions to a Special Person" (1974) from Last Poems frameless QOTD 2007·11·09 Sound file
Poems 1971-1973 (1981)
"The Operation"
All My Pretty Ones (1962)
"The Double Image"
To Bedlam and Part Way Back (1960)
"To Like, To Love"
Poems 1971-1973 (1981)
"August 17th" from Scorpio, Bad Spider, Die: The Horoscope Poems
Words for Dr. Y (1978)
"Frenzy"
The Awful Rowing Toward God (1975)
"Letters to Dr. Y."
Words for Dr. Y (1978)
“We are all writing God's poem.”
As quoted by Erica Jong, in "Into the lion's den" in The Guardian (26 October 2000) http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2000/oct/26/features11.g2
"The Operation"
All My Pretty Ones (1962)
“My eyes, those sluts, those whores, would play no more.”
"Killing the Spring"
The Book of Folly (1972)
