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Her Kind. By Anne Sexton. I have gone out, a possessed witch, haunting the black air, braver at night; dreaming evil, I have done my hitch. over the plain houses, light by light: lonely thing, twelve-fingered, out of mind. A woman like that is not a woman, quite. I have been her kind.
Sep 14, 2018 · Anne Sexton (1928 – 1974) proclaimed that she was “the only confessional poet” some time before taking her own life at the age of forty-five. Following is a sampling of 10 poems by Anne Sexton, as complex and talented an artist as they come. Her good friend Sylvia Plath, whose poetry stands squarely in the realm of the confessional ...
Only in this hoarded span will love persevere. Whether you are pretty or not, I outlive you, bend down my strange face to yours and forgive you. Anne Sexton, “All My Pretty Ones” from The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981).
The Ballad of the Lonely Masturbator. By Anne Sexton. The end of the affair is always death. She’s my workshop. Slippery eye, out of the tribe of myself my breath. finds you gone. I horrify. those who stand by. I am fed. At night, alone, I marry the bed. Finger to finger, now she’s mine. She’s not too far. She’s my encounter.
I am beating all my wings. They wanted to cut you out. but they will not. They said you were immeasurably empty. but you are not. They said you were sick unto dying. but they were wrong. You are singing like a school girl. You are not torn. Sweet weight, in celebration of the woman I am. and of the soul of the woman I am.
Sexton’s pioneering insistence on making the experience of being a woman the central issue of her poetry is seen to great effect in her famous poem ‘Her Kind’. Taken from her first collection, the poem was significant to Sexton who always opened her readings with it.
Feb 17, 2010 · February 17, 2010. 00:00. View Audio Transcript. SPEAKER: This is the Poetry Foundation’s Essential American Poets Podcast. Essential American Poets is an online audio poetry collection. The poets in the collection were selected in 2006 by Donald Hall when he was poet laureate.
