by 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
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
