The Equivalents - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Equivalents write by Maggie Doherty. This book was released on 2021-04-13. The Equivalents available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD In 1960, Harvard’s sister college, Radcliffe, announced the founding of an Institute for Independent Study, a “messy experiment” in women’s education that offered paid fellowships to those with a PhD or “the equivalent” in artistic achievement. Five of the women who received fellowships—poets Anne Sexton and Maxine Kumin, painter Barbara Swan, sculptor Marianna Pineda, and writer Tillie Olsen—quickly formed deep bonds with one another that would inspire and sustain their most ambitious work. They called themselves “the Equivalents.” Drawing from notebooks, letters, recordings, journals, poetry, and prose, Maggie Doherty weaves a moving narrative of friendship and ambition, art and activism, love and heartbreak, and shows how the institute spoke to the condition of women on the cusp of liberation. “Rich and powerful. . . . A love story about art and female friendship.” —Harper’s Magazine “Reads like a novel, and an intense one at that. . . . The Equivalents is an observant, thoughtful and energetic account.” —Margaret Atwood, The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Transformations
Transformations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transformations write by Anne Sexton. This book was released on 2016-04-05. Transformations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Anne Sexton morphs classic fairy tales into dark critiques of the cultural myths underpinning modern society Anne Sexton breathes new life into sixteen age-old Brothers Grimm fairy tales, reimagining them as poems infused with contemporary references, feminist ideals, and morbid humor. Grounded by nods to the ordinary—a witch’s blood “began to boil up/like Coca-Cola” and Snow White’s bodice is “as tight as an Ace bandage”—Sexton brings the stories out of the realm of the fantastical and into the everyday world. Stripping away their magical sheen, she exposes the flawed notions of family, gender, and morality within the stories that continue to pervade our collective psyche. Sexton is especially critical of what follows these tales’ happily-ever-after endings, noting that Cinderella never has to face the mundane struggles of marriage and growing old, such as “diapers and dust,” “telling the same story twice,” or “getting a middle-aged spread,” and that after being awakened Sleeping Beauty would likely be plagued by insomnia, taking “knock-out drops” behind the prince’s back. Deconstructed into vivid, visceral, and often highly amusing poems, these fairy tales reflect themes that have long fascinated Sexton—the claustrophobic anxiety of domestic life, the limited role of women in society, and a psychological strife more dangerous than any wicked witch or poisoned apple.
All My Pretty Ones
All My Pretty Ones - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook All My Pretty Ones write by Anne Sexton. This book was released on 1962. All My Pretty Ones available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A gifted poet reveals the poignancy and plaintive charm of common experiences.
Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
Selected Poems of Anne Sexton - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Selected Poems of Anne Sexton write by Anne Sexton. This book was released on 2000. Selected Poems of Anne Sexton available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A selection of poems by contemporary American author Anne Sexton, drawn primarily from eight previously published collections.
Searching for Mercy Street
Searching for Mercy Street - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Searching for Mercy Street write by Linda Gray Sexton. This book was released on 2011-04-10. Searching for Mercy Street available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. New York Times Notable Book: A “beautifully written” memoir by the daughter of the brilliant, troubled poet (Detroit Free Press). This is an honest, unsparing account of the anguish and fierce love that bound a difficult mother and the daughter she left behind. Linda Sexton was twenty–one when her mother killed herself, and now she looks back, remembers, and tries to come to terms with her mother’s life. Growing up with Anne Sexton was a wild mixture of suicidal depression and manic happiness, inappropriate behavior and midnight trips to the psychiatric ward. Anne taught Linda how to write, how to see, how to imagine—and only Linda could have written a book that captures so vividly the intimate details and lingering emotions of their life together. Searching for Mercy Street speaks to everyone who admires Anne Sexton and to every daughter or son who knows the pain of an imperfect childhood. “Sexton forcefully communicates the fear, repulsion, neediness, and sorrow that filled her childhood, as well as the agony of her own mental breakdown and her terror of becoming like her mother, in lucid and vivid prose.” —The Boston Globe “A candid, often painful depiction of a daughter’s struggles to come to terms with her powerful and emotionally troubled mother.” —The New York Times
