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When the Boston School started taking pictures, photography was still new to the art world. As a school, they are not unlike Robert Lowell, John Berryman, Sylvia Plath and the other confessional poets. In much the same way, these artists opened up their lives, and by expressing what was closest to them, they tested the limits of photography as an art form...
...Sylvia Plath...
...seductively pensive set. It works the dark corners, where troubled souls spend lonely evenings. Because Carpenter enunciates clearly and even uses whence properly, she seems an English teacher's dream student; at school she'd be the quiet girl, scribbling in her diary, who wins the Sylvia Plath Prize for the most achingly sensitive poem. Even her anthems (the up- tempo House of Cards and Jubilee) have the feel of requiems. The title song chides the middle class for its double-entry morality: "We pencil in, we cancel out, we crave the corner suite,/ We kiss your ass, we make...
...dinner table thrusting herself head first into a plate of mashed potatoes. And, it is ultimately Mother who ends her own life. Gray Sexton writes that her mother's suicide attempts were conscious acts and were not solely the results of severe mental illness. When peer confessional poet Sylvia Plath committed suicide, Anne Sexton told her psychiatrist that Plath "took something that was mine--that death was mine...
...know it oh my God I want to die right here right now..."). All of the chapters, with their catchy, rock 'n' roll titles like "Drinking in Dallas" and "Woke up this Morning Afraid I Was Gonna Live," begin with epigraphs from cultural figures from Edie Brickell to Sylvia Plath to Einstein...