USA: Poetry Episode Anne Sexton

There really ought to be a major documentary about Anne Sexton. She was so fascinating, complex, passionate, strong and vital yet so fragile. This is a fabulous programme. Thank you for uploading!

"I did not like my dolls for they resembled people." Damn. That's genius.

She’s such an interesting combination of the capable and the helpless. In short, a real human being.

No one read their own work quite the same way Anne did. I could listen to her all day.

Her personality made her so freaking attractive. I love her poetry. Honest and strong with 50s 60s undertone from a woman that understood that era and the women that inhabited that period of time. She was no whiner... She was a real woman.

anne sexton is a true picture of an american tragedy for me with all of the ugly and beauty. a brilliant poet, an artist that weaved and crafted her darkness and maladaptation, articulated it in such a way that not many others have like that. and she lived and breathed her art, it was a reflection of her, and her a reflection of it: between the possible abuse from whoever it could have been during her childhood/teenage years, her chronic mental illness and instability during a time when it was already hard enough just being a woman, her crimes against her children and husband, her affairs, and subsequently her suicide. she lived that darkness that many have danced with, been touched by, but she was able to eloquently express it in her work. she lived some of the most ugly, rough things in life and translated it into something to behold. had many things been different, had society been different, who knows where she could have went. my heart does go out to her daughter, and in anne’s death, i hope that she has been able to make some sense of it all and find peace.

This short film brought tears to my eyes as frequently occurs when I read Sexton's poetry. Her work is miraculous, her life a tragedy, her death both an end and a beginning of answers for which we do not even know the questions. Thank you for touching on so much in such a condensed amount of time.

For all her faults, I still am amazed at her poetry and personality. They should make a film on her life.

I can hardly tell if she is reading poetry or speaking to the audience. This women lived in her poetry

Incredibly gifted

More than other poets I have seen she really inhabits and lives in her words, her world.

She broke all the rules to quote a literary friend. She has inspired me since high school, even to start my own writing. She had an imp , a demon hidden inside that overran her eventually. You could see how proud she is of her depth. What was it that turned that talent against herself as in so many artists who take their own lives?

WHY has there not been a major *Biopic film made about this woman?? This is truly a Travesty! She was such a *Badass

I have been her kind...💜

Lets get an Anne Sexton movie already, with Natasha O'Keefe.

The intelligence in those eyes, though.

She was such a bad girl, Sexton. Yet I keep coming back for more. Priceless words.

Thanks much for sharing these. Just came across your videos today, and am really enjoying them. -Carm

Ann Sexton's poetry cuts.....

She and Sylvia were from the same city and Sylvia adopted a Tranatlantic accent. She was very insuecure when she got to Cambridge and American and her voice was unrecognizable from when she livied in the USA. Anne Sexton was a great poet as was Sylvia Plath.