Davison, Peter, The Fading Smile: Poets in Boston from Robert Lowell to Sylvia Plath, W. W. Norton & Company, 1996.
Davison recounts the Boston poetry world in this memoir and describes the complex relationships and behavior of such celebrated poets as Robert Lowell, Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Richard Wilbur, and W. S. Merwin.
Middlebrook, Diane Wood, Anne Sexton, Random House, 1991.
Diane Middlebrook's 1991 acclaimed biography is based on hundreds of hours of taped conversations between Sexton and her therapist......
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