Anne Sexton at home
On 11 November, 2009 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments
- interviews, Performance Poetry
Poet: Anne Sexton | Nationality: United States
I’m not sure of the original provenance of the footage, but these videos appear to have been taped from Spanish TV. According to the text at the beginning, the movie was made on March 10, 1966. Sexton reads “Menstruation at 40” in the first and “Wanting to Die” in the second, and talks about poetry reading styles, why music is better than poetry, and why death is harder to write about than sex.
Here’s another YouTube video incorporating rare footage of the poet:
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