This poet claimed that "birth was a disease and Christopher and I invented the cure" in "O Ye Tongues", a sequence of poems based on Christopher Smart's "Jubilate Agno".
This poet claimed that "birth was a disease and Christopher and I invented the cure" in "O Ye Tongues", a sequence of poems based on Christopher Smart's "Jubilate Agno". The line "I have gone out, a possessed witch" opens a poem by this author whose three stanzas end with the claim "I have been" the title thing. This student of W.D. Snodgrass wrote a poem which asks her daughter "how do you grow?" and tells her "you are too many to eat", while the lines "Whether you are pretty or not, I outlive you, bend down my strange face to yours and forgive you" conclude a poem addressed to her father. This poet wrote (*) "Her Kind", "Little Girl, My String Bean, My Lovely Woman", and "All My Pretty Ones". For 10 points, name this author of To Bedlam and Part Way Back and The Awful Rowing Toward God, who, like her friend Sylvia Plath, was a suicidal female Confessional poet.
This poet claimed that "birth was a disease and Christopher and I invented the cure" in "O Ye Tongues", a sequence of poems based on Christopher Smart's "Jubilate Agno".
Anne Sexton