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Quietly Awful. But reader, beware. Behind this quiet, well-taught Garden Party-girl behavior, Atwood conceals the kick of a perfume bottle converted into a Molotov cocktail. She is one of the new sisterhood-like Novelist Joan Didion and Poet Anne Sexton-who seem to have sprung full-grown from condemned-property dollhouses. Hyper-observant, dangerously polite waifs, they look at the world with large, bruised eyes and gently whisper of loneliness, emptiness and casual cruelty...
Andrew F. Brimmer, LL.D., member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Anne Sexton, D.Let., poet...
...past decade, all four poets have published books. Mrs. Sexton has won the Pulitzer Prize, and Starbuck has received the Yale Younger Poets' Prize and the Prix de Rome. The four have also taught: Freeman and Mrs. Sexton at Boston University. Mrs. Kumin at Tufts, and Starbuck at the University of Iowa...
...started our careers at that moment in the Poets' Theater." Mrs. Sexton said, recalling that with the exception of some magazine printings, none of the poets had yet published...
After Robert Lowell. Ralph Waldo Emerson Lecturer on English Literature, spoke on television to raise money for Biafran relief. Freeman and Mrs. Sexton, who had already discussed a reunion reading, decided to present one as a benefit for Biafra...