The night before had, by all accounts, ended with Sexton being carried out of the after-party, incapacitated by a combination of pills and martinis and accompanied by her 13-year-old travel companion, her daughter Linda, and her host, Philip Legler, with whom Sexton would exchange passionate, intimate letters for years to come. It was the morning after she had given a poetry performance, and Sexton was asking a nervous student to read one of her poems. The above conversation comes from a recording of Anne Sexton, Pulitzer prize-winning poet, visiting with a class of students at Sweet Briar College in April 1966. The only thing you’ve got to do is read slow.ġ7:11 AS: ‘Slowly’? What do you say? Which is it? ‘Slowly’?ġ7:19 AS: How am I supposed to know? I, put it my way, ‘Read slow.’ Just keep thinking that to yourself, because it’s hard to get a poem. Recording annotations and transcription by Tanya ClementĪnne Sexton Papers 1912-1996, R 0084, Harry Ransom Center.ġ7:10 Anne Sexton (AS). Anne Sexton Class Visit at Sweetbriar College, 1966
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