Word: mother
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nightcaps--Dunster Dining Hall at 8:30 The Gondoliers--Agassiz at 8 Emma--Next Move at 8 Puntila and Matti--Cambridge Ensemble at 8 The Furies of Mother Jones--People Theater Jubalay--Theatre by the Sea at 8:30 My Mother...My Son--Boston Rep at 8:08 Rosmersholm--Trinity Square at 8 The Indian Wants the Bronx--Charles Playhouse at 8 Lost Cookies--Eliot Dining Hall at 8 Hedda Gabler--Winthrop JCR at 8 A Thousand Clowns--Leverett Old Library at 8 p.m. Nosh--Laurie Theater, Brandies, at 8:30 p.m. The Tempest--Quincy Dining Hall...
...other contemporary American poet has written more urgently and directly about this fatal shunt than Anne Sexton. Her poems were torn from her life as a daughter, housewife, mother, lover, mental patient and custodian of what she called "the excitable gift." The phrase is from her poem "Live," from a collection that embraced such titles as "Wanting to Die," "Suicide Note" and "Sylvia's Death." Plath (1932-63) and Sexton (1928-74) were friends who spent hours discussing their art, illnesses and the ways they would kill themselves. Yet it is difficult to read Sexton's correspondence...
...middle of a flight to St. Louis to give a reading. I was reading a New Yorker story that made me think of my mother and all alone in the seat I whispered to her 'I know, Mother, I know.' (Found a pen!) And I thought of you-someday flying somewhere all alone and me dead perhaps and you wishing to speak...
...know. I was there once. I too, was 40 and with a dead mother who I needed still...
...year-old Linda, and I love what you do, what you find, what you are!-Be your own woman. Belong to those you love. Talk to my poems, and talk to your heart-I'm in both: if you need me. I lied, Linda. I did love my mother and she loved me. She never held me but I miss her, so that I have to deny I ever loved her-or she me! Silly Anne! So there...