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Anne Sexton on the Brockport Writers Forum

An interview with the outstanding American poet Anne Sexton

“That is what poems are: / with mercy / for the greedy, / they are the tongue’s wrangle,/ the world’s pottage, the rat’s star,” reads Anne Sexton from her poem “With Mercy for the Greedy” in this 1973 episode of the Brockport Writers Forum with interviewers William Heyen and A. Poulin, Jr., in which she discusses her work, confessional poetry, and influences.

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Anne Sexton
Brockport Writers Forum
William Heyen
A. Poulin, Jr.
1973

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