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Mother of fire, let me stand at your devouring gate
as the sun dies in your arms and you loosen its terrible weight. - Anne Sexton Attribution: Anne Sexton (1928–1974), U.S. poet. “Angel of Fire and Genitals.”

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Anne Sexton

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Critical Companions:

• Sexton, Anne (Feminism)

eNotes:

• The Mythology of Anne Sexton's Life (Courage)
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• The Influence of Anne Sexton's Death (Address to the Angels)

Encyclopedia:

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

Salem on Literature:

• Anne Sexton (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
• Anne Sexton (Critical Survey of Poetry)
• Anne Sexton (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Anne Sexton (Dictionary of World Biography: The 20th Century)
• Anne Sexton (Identities and Issues in Literature)

Literary Criticism:

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

Calendar of Literary Facts:

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