All My Pretty Ones Father, this year’s jinx rides us apart where you followed our mother to her cold slumber; a second shock boiling its stone to your heart, leaving me here to shuffle and disencumber you from the residence… Read More ›
Anne Sexton
Poem of the Week: The Operation by Anne Sexton
The Operation One of the most powerful poems I have ever encountered. The third verse is the version that Sexton used while reading this poem, I prefer it to the version that appears in print. I. After the sweet promise,… Read More ›
Poem of the Week: The Truth the Dead Know by Anne Sexton
This is an unpublished version of one of my favorite Anne Sexton Poems, The Truth the Dead Know. This version’s final two stanzas are different, but I much prefer this version’s ending. I first came across Sexton reading this in… Read More ›
