Biography EssayAnne Sexton was a confessional poet; that is, she wrote poetry out of the most intimate and painful details of her life. To a certain extent every poet does this, but few have done so w...
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A contemporary American poet, Anne Sexton (1928-1974) was best known for the relentlessly autobiographical nature of her poetry and for her personal "confessional" voice, which led some fans to believ...
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Anne Sexton was a confessional poet; that is, she wrote poetry out of the most intimate and painful details of her life. To a certain extent every poet does this, but few have done so with the frankne...
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Anne Sexton began writing poetry at age twenty-eight as a form of psychotherapy during treatment for a clinical depression. By the time of her suicide at age forty-five she had become a major figure i...
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Courage is a highly acclaimed trait in a person. It is raised up in war and times of struggle, but sometimes the intentions behind these courageous actions are overlooked. The value of courage lies no...
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THE BIG GIRLSBy Susanna Moore Alfred A. Knopf, 224 pages, $24
You’ve heard of the unreliable narrator, the antihero, the evil twin. Now meet the enigmatic heroine. Louise Forrest, the watery ...
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Fifty years later, the man who first stood on the roof of the world lamented how Mount Everest had changed since his historic summit."It is hardly mountaineering; more like a conducted tour," Sir E...
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Six women who risked their lives reporting in Iraq, a Mexican reporter who faced death threats for her reporting on pedophiles, and an Ethiopian journalist who was charged with treason received awa...
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Descendants of Martin Luther King and Mohandas K. Gandhi joined others Friday in offering their thoughts on solving some of the world's most intractable problems.King's daughter said the key to pro...
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Nobody can dispute that Barack Obama opposed the Iraq war from the start and, with striking prescience, predicted U.S. troops would be mired in a costly conflict that fanned "the flames of the Midd...
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Adam Pearl wandered through his mother's Manhattan book-launch party last week, looking spiffy in a sweater vest and button-down shirt. It was logical that the 5-year-old was there, because his mom...
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Several years ago I wrote a snotty essay, “The Smiley Face at the End of the Tunnel,” which posited that very good but not great writers of secular disposition often produce an uncommo...
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A few words about the wayward production of Mother Courage and Her Children in the Park, starring Meryl Streep:
Ms. Streep, at least, is wonderfully wayward! She appears to be kicking the entire p...
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