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Man
is a bird full of mud,
I say aloud.
And death looks on with a casual eye
and scratches his anus. - Anne Sexton Attribution: Anne Sexton (1928–1974), U.S. poet. “After Auschwitz.”

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Salem on History:

• Anne Sexton

Critical Companions:

• Sexton, Anne (Feminism)

Encyclopedia:

• Sexton, Anne (The Oxford Companion to American Literature)
• Sexton, Anne (The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales)
• Sexton, Anne (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)

Salem on Literature:

• Anne Sexton (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)

Literary Criticism:

• Sexton, Anne (Vol. 8) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Sexton, Anne (Vol. 10) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Sexton, Anne (Vol. 2) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Sexton, Anne (Vol. 6) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Sexton, Anne (Vol. 4) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Sexton, Anne (Vol. 123) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Sexton, Anne (Vol. 15) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)

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• Anne Sexton dies
• Anne Sexton receives the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Live or Die
• Anne Sexton publishes Live or Die
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