Wonderful and tragic.

Hardly any artists can survive the p.c. police! As Beckett told his would be biographers “the work is all that matters.”

If you're interested in Paris in the Twenties, "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" is very readable, accessible, etc. I enjoyed it years ago, and I recommend it. 😊 Edit: Much of the text of this video comes from that book.

21:32. The Addict

I'm in love with.. ❤

How does one "give up homosexuality"?

come, shadow, shadow, come and take this up.

I got caught up in her writing because it was on Magill’s American author’s booklist, also Arlo Guthrie’s Alice’s Restaurant. 😂Different times, folks.

Does anyone know the name of the first poem Frank O'Hara reads?

15:52 It’s so hard to enjoy this poem knowing that she sexually abused the daughter she wrote about. I love Anne Sexton so I try not to dwell on it.

I just wish that she had spoken with a thick Boston accent. That would’ve given her spoken poetry more depth. I’m surprised that she didn’t.

I love Levertov. But can we acknowledge the first few things she says about her youth: "I also thought I was going to be a painter, I also thought I was going to be a ballet dancer, as well as a poet." How many of us come from that place? How many of us, when growing up, are thinking that all the world's possibilities are within our reach? She was an early Boomer. A generation of privilege (if you were white). Since then, most of us have been wondering: I wonder how I can survive, let alone make art.

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I respect them . They were so ahead of their time..free thinking and fun and interesting ❤..we jus followed.

From her and Sylvia, I have learned that the voice that reads the poem is what drives the poetry.

thank you for uploading all these Gems!

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It is difficult for me not to lo 1:14:47 1:14:47 ok upon Gertrude Stein as one of THE GREAT INTELLECTUAL PRETENDERS + that was, without either sarcasm or cynicism, her geatest contribution.

You mention Barbara Guest in the written intro. Did I miss the section she was in? And painter Larry Rivers is there but not Grace Hartigan. I did change my attitude in a positive way about John Ashbery. Always been a fan of Kenneth Koch. Thanks for the documentary.

An insightful tribute to Emily! 😍😍

american scholars rise up

SONG before having a coke with you is the true delight of this

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This is a great intro. series.

Once I was desperate to yell and hurt my throat because I just couldn’t. I couldn’t express what I was feeling. I couldn’t grasp at the turmoil and it made me angry, sad and mad I was beyond repair then Anne came and she took that burden and she saved me, she made me feel understood. I know she saved a lot of people as well, but I swear I can’t imagine a world without her.

We were so blessed to have him on earth. Extraordinary poet!

Robert Lowell's poem "Pick up the phone Kevin you lazy wanker (An ode to deep sea fishermen)" is my favourite.

Just found your channel and subscribed - brilliant - thank you so much.

Wilbur speaks those “and uh”s just like Lowell does in his readings of “Skunk Hour” in the early 60s-

Those live music inserts are insulting as they are direct steals from Jacques Brel. Imitation is not always a form of flattery.

yea for Oakland and this charming chance to hear this.

Who was first? Dine or Raushenberg?

"as sensitive to the intimate occasion as possible..."

Wes Mills turned me onto his work in the mid 2000’s and only now am I watching this.

23:48 live or die, but don't poison everything

"I'm on a diet from death". Only those who have been on that diet understand the significance of those words. Anne was a genius.

Frankenthaler was so hot

two geniuses.

If Hart Crane were my relative, he would be like an older brother to me. I have never had an older sibling. I would like to share one of the poems I wrote for Hart in my book "Green Park." 68 Friend Harold, Friend Hart, our wrapt incisions are canon, and me outspoken with white orchids and beads, oh, it must have been 1923. You son o' Life Savers could've gone to paradise and saluted bees all day in the isle. But You, O Scholar and Legionnaire, O you! You lived! Grab the Gramophone! O wind the sound and pour a round. We drink too much and wind up in fisticuffs. Now he's broke, dead to rights, and resting at my flat with a newborn cat.

Thank you for posting. She was my friend and I miss her.

Just a reminder: I'm reminiscing. I really like this documentary ~ July 2024.

The fact that a documentary on Anne Sexton hasn't been produced is a travesty.

i brook no babble

Wieners never lost that Boston accent, I love how prominent it is when he reads. He sounds like my old Irish Catholic aunts.

It's the boundaries of our human collective personal experience that embraces Parmenides while Heraclitus exposes our human tragic longing certitude as we each ultimately disappear in the breaking foam of the watery tide.

LOl him saying he will sell out and he did by signing the Fugs to Warner Bros in 1968

Keep watching it from time to time. A genius of sculpture especially the public art

James Merrill was so suave and sexy..... As was EB....

I saw this years ago and have been looking for it. thanks!