Fame at last
Elaine Showalter, 7 November 1991
Anne Sexton: A Biography
by Diane WoodMiddlebrook.
Virago, 488 pp., £20, November 1991,1 85381 406 7 Show More
by Diane WoodMiddlebrook.
Virago, 488 pp., £20, November 1991,
“... of discards to fill out the book, it had gone through 19 drafts before Sexton achieved what Middlebrook calls the ‘double “I” ’ of the stanza and refrain. It was not craft, however, that Sexton flaunted in her readings. ‘I hated her readings,’ Kumin told Middlebrook. ‘They were so melodramatic and ... ”