Writers on Recordings: Colm Tóibín on Elizabeth Bishop
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Poetry in the Sixties
Se anh's brother were being brought up by his mother, and they found his mother m after she had gassed herself. This reticence, this this idea, in a time when every one, especially in the united states, was affect, deeply affected, by robert lowell's life studies,. And your own inner demons became the subject of your poetry. If you had a divorce, in the case of w d snodgrass, heart's needle became your book about the divorce. if you had depression, as anne sexton, your book became about that difficulty. So too wit sylvia plath. There's a moment in jack straw's castle, especially
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