Anne Sexton

  Harvey Company, R. C., 3

  Hathaway House Bookshop, 21, 146, 147, 211

  “Heart’s Needle,” 34–35, 62, 66, 72, 75, 80, 108–109, 114

  Hecht, Anthony, 121–122, 122–124, 126–127, 135, 308, 390; and his son, Evan Alexander, 381; and his wife, Janet, 381

  Hellman, Lillian, 170

  Hemingway, Ernest, 314

  Henderson the Rain King, 102, 122, 257

  “Her Kind,” 127

  Herzog, 257

  Hill, June, 131, 151

  Holmes, Doris, 59

  Holmes, John, 29, 33, 34, 36, 46, 58, 59–60, 62, 64, 73, 117–120

  Houghton Mifflin Company: and advertising of Sexton publications, 347; and All My Pretty Ones, 132, 135, 137, 146, 166; and Anne Sexton’s editors, 38, 74, 325, 329, 408; and The Awful Rowing Toward God, 403; and The Book of Folly, 384; and The Death Notebooks, 407–408; and the Lamont Poetry award, 36; and Live or Die, 281, 283, 287, 296; and To Bedlam and Part Way Back, 31, 52, 61, 67, 77, 91, 95, 107, 166; and Transformations, 356, 359, 370–373

  Howard, Brice, 286

  Howard, Richard, 294, 360

  Howe, Irving, 111, 114

  Hudson Review, The, 31, 40, 47–48, 56, 66, 78, 88–89, 90–91, 93–94, 100, 106, 110, 125, 139

  Hughes, Ted, 38, 73, 273, 281, 307–308, 318, 327, 330, 369

  Hughes, Olwyn, 383

  Human Resources Institute, 400

  Hunter College, 393

  Huntington Conference, 315

  I Am the Bitter Name, 369

  “In Celebration of My Uterus,” 300, 302

  Ingram Merrill Foundation Contest, 33

  International Congress for Cultural Freedom, 269

  International Poetry Festival, 307–308, 317

  “Interrogation of the Man of Many Hearts, The,” 300

  “In the Deep Museum,” 112

  “I Remember,” 94

  “Iron Hans,” 359, 368

  “I Stand Here Ironing,” 236

  Jarrell, Randall, 35, 49, 138, 267, 282

  Jerome, Judson, 60

  Joey and the Birthday Present, 328

  Jong, Erica, 413–415, 419–420

  Joseph’s (restaurant), 376, 384

  “Jubilate Agno,” 421

  Joslyn, Julie, 323–324, 377–378

  “Just Once,” 319

  Kafka, Franz, 116, 161, 271

  Kennedy, X. J., 362

  Kerr, Walter, 379

  Kinnell, Galway, 151, 233–234

  “Kiss, The,” 283

  Kizer, Carolyn, 55–56, 68–71, 75, 82, 87, 108–109

  Knokke le Zoutte, Switzerland, Anne’s letters from, 190–193

  Knopf Inc., Alfred A., 52, 67, 76

  Kohl, Herbert, 315–317

  Korean War, 21

  Korso, Jonathan, 266–268

  Kumin, Judy, 340, 341

  Kumin, Maxine (Max), 64, 67, 89, 131, 151, 189, 194, 203, 218, 232, 259, 278, 326, 330, 351, 358, 366, 390; and psychoanalysis, 255; and The Awful Rowing Toward God, 422; and The Boston Center for Adult Education, 29; and children’s books, 81, 147, 328, 395; and Highlawn Farm, 264–265; and the John Holmes workshop, 58, 117–118; and the Lamont Poetry award, 111; talking Anne’s “language,” 244; letters to, 296–297; participating in the Poet’s Theater readings, 61, 65, 350; at the Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study, 124; 130; and Transformations, 371

  Kunitz, Stanley, 51, 61, 64, 108, 170, 267, 371–372, 373–374, 374–375

  La Côte Basque, 338, 343

  LaCrosse, Mary (Meme), 173, 195, 304, 329, 338, 394–395

  Lamont Poetry Selection, 36, 111

  Lant, Jeffrey, 406–409

  Larkin, Philip, 49

  “Last Believer, The,” 134, 147

  “Leavetaking,” 244

  “Legend of the One-Eyed Man, The,” 157

  Legler, Philip, 288–290, 290–292, 293–296, 319–320, 352–353

  Letters to a Young Poet, 268

  Letters to Milena, 161

  “Letter Written on a Ferry Crossing Long Island Sound,” 124, 127

  “Letting Down of the Hair, The,” 102, 374, 377

  Levinson, Mark, 357

  Lewiston Evening Journal, 3

  Life Notebooks, The, 392, 416

  Life Studies, 91

  Lippincott & Co., 92

  “Little Peasant, The,” 350, 351, 356, 359, 368

  “Live,” 226, 279, 324, 421

  Live or Die, 226, 287, 296, 300, 303, 306, 309, 421

  Locke-Ober Café, 304

  Look Magazine, 327

  Lord, Sterling, 89, 90, 132

  “Love or Like,” 93

  Love Poems, 300, 313, 336, 355, 356–357, 359, 362

  “Love Song,” 157

  “Love Song to K. Owyne,” 326

  “Loving the Killer,” 300

  Lowell, Robert (Cal), 35, 55, 64, 65, 74, 97, 105, 106, 108, 131, 267–269; and All My Pretty Ones, 133; and “Confessional” poetry, 163, 167, 300, 306–308; and For the Union Dead, 302; letters to, 38–39, 134–135, 170; and Life Studies, 91, 95; on Sexton’s Selected Poems, 169–171; as a teacher of poetry at Boston University, 38, 43, 49, 50, 53, 56, 57, 58, 65, 69–70, 71, 79, 273; and To Bedlam and Part Way Back, 48, 51, 52, 54, 60, 61, 80

  Lowell, Massachusetts, 8

  “Lying in a Hammock,” 302

  Lynes, Russell, 67

  McAdoo, Richard, 392, 408–409

  McCarthy, Eugene, 326, 330

  McConkey, James, 46

  McCullers, Carson, 314

  McCullough, Frances, 383

  Machado, 302

  MacDowell Writers’ Colony, 67

  McGraw-Hill, 328

  McLean Hospital, 332, 335

  “Magic of Things, The,” 269

  “Maiden Without Hands, The,” 352

  “Man and Wife,” 157, 326

  Man Carrying a Man, 296

  Mann, Thomas, 113, 116

  Mansfield, Katherine, 94

  Marquand, John P., Mrs., 65

  Martin, Dr. Sidney (Dr. Martin), 123, 131, 150, 198, 218, 273, 326; on Anne (as recounted by Anne), 23, 54, 80, 83, 112, 114, 115, 121, 124, 143, 144, 164, 193, 231–232, 259; and Anne’s remarks on his absences, 113, 230, 238, 240, 243–244; and Anne’s dependence upon him, 219, 225–226, 228, 230, 240, 243–244; and poetry, 29, 33, 35, 95, 97

  Martinique, The, 9

  Maryan, Charles, 337, 342, 379

  Massachusetts General Hospital, 226, 246, 257, 258, 297–298, 358, 378

  Masterson, Dan, 380

  May Day, 121

  Meme, see Mary LaCrosse

  “Menstruation at Forty,” 305

  Mercy Street, 313, 336–338, 345–346, 347, 357, 361, 363

  Merwin, William, 326

  Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 79

  Miller, Arthur, 301

  Miller, Nolan, 33–34, 44–45, 47, 60–62, 67, 72, 103, 116–117, 172, 175, 309, 390, 420

  Minnesota Opera Company, 384

  Modern American Poetry, 120

  “Moon Song, Woman Song,” 319

  Moore, Marianne, 104, 170

  More Eggs of Things, 157

  Morgan, Frederick (Fred), 68, 72, 95, 121, 390; and “The Division of Parts,” 81; and “The Double Image,” 47, 62–63; at first meeting with Anne, 50, 56, 58; gives Anne advice on To Bedlam and Part Way Back in Maine, 82–83; letters to 88–89, 90–91, 93–94, 103–105, 168; and “A Story for Rose on the Midnight Flight to Boston,” 66; and the YMHA reading, 88–89

  Morgan, Robin, 382–383

  Morgan, Rose, 48, 63, 89, 91, 168

  Morris Gray Reading, 90

  Moss, Howard, 34, 60, 277, 332, 333

  Mother Night, 349

  “Mother’s Cry,” 10

  Moulton, Jean, 343, 345

  Mt. Auburn Cemetery, 31

  Muggeridge, Malcolm, 318

  Mundelein College, 334

  “Muse of Water, A,” 69

  “My Shopping Trip,” 369

/>   “My Wife,” 331

  Nairobi, Anne’s 1966 trip to, 297

  National Book Award, The, 36, 157, 287

  National Endowment for the Humanities, 315

  Needleworker, The, 380

  Neruda, Pablo, 306, 308, 381

  New American Review, The, 360

  New England, 3, 13, 128, 320

  Newman, Charles, 272–274, 296, 309, 378–379

  New Orleans Poetry Journal, The, 33

  Newsweek, 136, 143

  Newton, Massachusetts, 3, 34

  Newton Lower Falls, Massachusetts, 22, 121, 180, 196, 254

  Newton-Wellesley Hospital, 22, 378

  New World Writing No. 16, 92, 98, 102–103, 128, 303

  New York City, 48, 50, 66, 87, 88, 89, 96, 123, 249, 336, 343, 344

  New Yorker, The, 31, 34, 47, 60, 115, 131, 165, 233, 295, 332, 360, 375, 377, 411

  New York Herald Tribune, The, 30, 33

  New York Review of Books, The, 325, 409

  New York Times, The, 111, 165, 274, 345, 354, 408

  Nixon, Richard, 412, 420

  North Carolina, 13

  November 9th (Anne’s birthday), 40, 305, 384

  “Nude Swim, The,” 300

  Oates, Joyce Carol, 392, 393, 396–397

  Oberlin College, 335

  Observer, The, 280

  “Obsessional Combinations of Ontological Inscape, Trickery and Love,” 46

  “Old,” 326

  Olsen, Tillie, 102–103, 116, 117, 127–128, 138–140, 228, 236, 256–258, 303, 355–356

  “On the Dunes,” 9

  “Operation, The,” 90, 99

  Oxford University Press, 165, 169–170, 382, 384

  “O Ye Tongues,” 379, 410, 413

  “Papa and Mama Dance, The,” 319

  Paris, France, 175–177

  Paris Review, The, 327, 402

  Partisan Review, The, 60, 111–113, 125, 129

  “Patience Is When You Stop Waiting,” 331

  Penny (the Sexton Dalmatian), 279

  Phi Beta Kappa, Harvard 1968, 313, 324, 346; Radcliffe 1969, 313, 376

  Pineda, Mariana, 244

  Plath, Sylvia, 38, 73–74, 170, 233, 261, 262, 272–274, 296, 300, 305–306, 307

  Play It as It Lays, 366

  Playboy, 356, 359

  Poetry, 47, 72, 333–335

  Poetry Australia, 369

  Poetry Book Society, 165

  Poetry Day, 333–335

  Poetry Northwest, 48, 55–56, 71, 108–109

  Poets’ Theater (Cambridge, Mass.), 61, 65, 350

  Porter, Arabel, 408

  “Portrait of an Old Woman on the College Tavern Wall,” 63

  Pound, Ezra, 421

  “Praying on a 707,” 410, 413

  Prix de Rome, The, 114

  “Protestant Easter,” 157

  Pulitzer Prize, 105, 108, 287, 383

  Purves, Shannon R., 331

  Putnam’s, 81, 147

  Queen Elizabeth Hall, 317

  Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study, 124, 130, 134, 142, 147, 228, 309

  Rago, Henry, 333–335

  Rahv, Philip, 60, 81, 111, 114

  Raidy, William, 346

  Rainbow Press, 383

  Random House, 383

  Ransom, John Crowe, 46

  “Rapunzel,” 359, 360, 368

  “Reading, The,” 30

  Redpath Agency, 130

  “Red Roses,” 22

  “Red Studio, The,” 40, 44, 49

  Regis College—Honorary Doctorate, 1973, 313

  “Riding the Elevator Into the Sky,” 416

  Rilke, Rainer Maria, 116, 138, 162, 256, 271

  Rimbaud, Arthur, 262

  “Ringing the Bells,” 54

  Rioff, Suzanne, 349

  Ritz Carlton, 38, 74, 273

  Rizzo, Steve, 357

  “Road Back, The,” 31, 60

  Robart, Les, 62, 248

  Robart, Sands (Sandy), 62; as babysitter, 67; and departure for Europe with Anne, 172–173; as European traveling companion, 157, 164, 172; at Tell Me Your Answer True, 248–249; traveling through Europe—in Amsterdam, 193–194, 195, 197; in Brussels, 177–179; in Knokke Le Zoutte, 190–192; in Lake Como, 202–204; in Rome, 215–216, 218; in Venice, 207, 209, 210; in Zurich, 198–199, 201

  Roethke, Theodore, 82, 108, 393

  Rogers Hall, 8, 9, 12

  Rome, Italy, letters from, 214–218, 218–221, 227

  Rosenberg, Irene, 400

  “Rowing,” 416

  Royal Society of Literature, 165

  Rukeyser, Muriel, 322

  “Runner, The,” 89

  “Saint Sex,” 331

  “Safe Goods,” 309

  Sanders Theater, 403, 404

  San Francisco, 22, 128, 145

  Santa, 4, 45, 134, 147

  Sarah Crewe, 87

  Schooner, 34

  “Second Bed-Time Story,” 327

  Seidel, Frederick, 163

  Seldes, Marian, 347

  Sexton, Alfred Muller, II (Kayo, Boots), 99, 131, 150, 160, 163, 164, 165, 175, 292, 364; and Anne’s career, 31; Anne’s private comments on, 36, 37, 41–42, 67, 70, 91, 97, 98, 114, 154, 293; and his children, 43, 49, 87, 173, 243, 340, 342, 380–381; and Christmas, 87; at Colgate University, 19, 20; divorce of, 389, 393, 395; elopes with Anne, 13, 14, 15; introduced to Anne, 13; letters to, 23–25, 190–193, 193–195, 196–198, 205–207, 207–208, 209–211, 211–214, 218–221, 247–248; and his marriage to Anne, 15, 16, 17, 127, 168, 192, 193, 194, 196–198, 199, 205–207, 207–208, 209–211, 211–214, 218, 218–221, 235, 247–248, 299–300, 329, 330, 365–366; in the Naval Reserves, 21; in the Navy, 22; poems to, 25; and poetry, 54, 67, 70, 82, 89, 114, 147, 157, 172, 244; politics of, 290, 330; reacts to Anne’s mental illness, 23, 100, 104, 292, 332, 336, 358; and the wool business, 21, 23, 41, 87, 157, 349, 365–366, 380, 382

  Sexton, the family: letters to, 173–175, 175–177, 177–180, 181–185, 185–190, 198–200, 201–202, 202–204, 214–218

  Sexton, George (Alfred, Sexton’s father): and his son’s career, 15; death of, 100–101, 115; as a parent, 13; reaction of, to son’s marriage, 16, 17

  Sexton, Joan (Alfred Sexton’s sister), 183, 204, 220, 338

  Sexton, Joyce Ladd (daughter, Joy, Joy Ball), 54, 88, 189, 208, 275, 297, 364; adolescence of, 366, 380–381; and animals, 328; birth of, 22; childhood of, 23, 37, 42, 70, 87, 144, 150, 164; and her father, 43, 49; letters to, 173–175, 175–176, 328–329, 404–406; and Anne’s mental illness, 358, 389; and her mother, 97, 110, 114, 144, 190, 199–200, 206, 304, 305, 336, 389–390; and her psychiatrist, 279, 405; in summer camp, 263; poems to, 380–381

  Sexton, Linda Gray (daughter, Linda Pie, pie, Bobolink), 54, 297, 348, 364; adolescence of, 243, 244, 246, 260, 263, 279, 290–291, 293, 294, 309, 321, 340–341, 341–342, 366; birth of, 22; childhood of, 24, 87, 92, 111, 131, 144, 150, 164, 173, 217; at college, 366, 389; letters to, 173, 173–175, 175–177, 264–266, 339–341, 341–342, 416–418, 423; as literary executor of Anne Sexton’s estate, 416–418, 422; and her mother, 42, 97, 111, 114, 123, 144, 173, 189, 198, 199, 205, 208, 217, 243, 244, 246, 260, 290–291, 294, 307, 321, 330, 336, 342, 366, 389, 390, 406, 416–418, 422–423; and her mother’s career, 270, 288, 309, 321, 350, 406, 416–418, 422; and her mother’s mental illness, 22, 23, 37, 336; poems to, 246; at summer camp, 263, 328, 329, 330

  Sexton, Wilhelmine (Alfred Sexton’s mother, Billie, Nana): and Anne, 21, 178, 204, 339, 358; and her grandchildren, 22, 23, 37, 173, 205, 328; and Anne’s mental illness, 21–22, 23, 358; as a parent, 13; and her son’s career, 15; and her son’s marriage, 16, 17, 21, 329

  Sexual Politics, 366

  Sewanee Review, The, 377

  Shaktman, Ben, 237, 309, 379–380, 390

  Shapiro, Karl, 34

  Shaw, G. B., 161

  Shawn, William, 332

  “Sickness Unto Death, The,” 416

  Silber, John, 412

  Simpso
n, Louis, 89, 95, 98–100, 105, 110, 383

  Sissman, L. E., 333

  Sixties, The, 120, 300, 302

  69 Hotel, 317, 318

  Slaughterhouse Five, 349

  “Sleeping Beauty,” 357, 359

  Smart, Christopher, 421

  Smith, Alice, 346–348, 354, 357–359

  Smith, Constance, 303–304

  Smith, Joan, 358

  Snodgrass, W. D. (De, Dee, Snodsy), 70, 292, 390; and Antioch Summer Writers’ Conference, 33–34; and “confessional” poetry, 62, 63, 71, 76, 79, 167; and his family (Janet, Cynthia, Buzzy), 35, 38, 42, 44, 50, 54, 57, 93, 96, 111; letters to, 35–38, 39–40, 40–42, 43–44, 45–46, 48–50, 50–54, 56–58, 62–64, 65–68, 71–74, 74–75, 75–77, 79–82, 91–93, 94–96, 96–98, 106–108; and the Pulitzer Prize, 105, 106–108

  “Snow White,” 359, 368

  “So,” 9–10

  Sobiloff, Hy, 309

  “Soft Promise,” 10

  “Some Foreign Letters,” 50, 53, 60, 72

  “Song for a Red Nightgown,” 300

  Soter, Ruth, 36, 98, 102, 129

  Speed of Darkness, The, 322

  Spender, Stephen, 111, 114

  “Spirit’s House,” 12

  Spivack, Kathleen, 402

  Splinters, 9

  Squirrelana, 4

  Squirrel Island, Maine, 4

  S.S. France, 171

  Stallworthy, Jon, 165, 169–170, 270–272, 318–319, 390

  Sterling Lord Agency, 252–253

  Staples, Arthur, Gray, 3, 4

  Starbuck, George, 64, 100, 105; at Boston Center for Adult Education, 38, 74, 273; at Boston University, 349, 350–351, 376, 384–385, 411–412; in John Holmes’ poetry workshop, 58, 117; and the Lamont Poetry award, 36; letters to, 149–151, 350–351, 376, 384–385, 411–412; participating in the Poets’ Theater reading with Anne, 61; participating in the YMHA reading with Anne, 89

  Stein, Doctor Morton, 238

  Steinbeisser, J., 391

  Stone, Will, 41, 42

  “Story for Rose on the Midnight Flight to Boston, A,” 66

  Summers, Hollis, 46, 47, 83, 96, 100–102

  “Sun, The,” 375

  Sunbury, North Carolina, 15, 16

  Susa, Conrad, 384

  Swan, Barbara, 296, 374

  “Sweeney,” 338

  Sweeney, Brian, 338–339, 343–345, 368–369, 377, 390, 409–410, 412

  Sweeney, Jack, 170

  Sweet Briar College, 288

  Swenson, May, 146, 399–400

  “Sylvia’s Death,” 157, 261

  “Tales,” 331

  Taylor, Robert, 418

  Teachers’ and writers’ Collaborative, 315

  “Tell Me a Riddle,” 102, 303

  Tell Me Your Answer True, 195, 237–238, 286, 303