USA: Poetry; 7; Anne Sexton

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the purpose be i have gone out of obsessed witch hunting black bear braver at night dreaming people i have done my kid you're going to play i found a warrant even words open the skillet having show notes the new model could fix the fabric of the warmth and the you know whining rearranging know a woman like that i have written in your car driver wave minute on the village is growing by learning the last right roots survivor where you are planes still by my family
and my ribs cracked four year we'll want a woman like that does not change any gee presents you would say poetry into the home above the port and that i was have an education and then just tell me
unlike matter in a fitful thing at that that article that the government for the death of the place i love i am that's because baker what are you are you working on that you know what there was one poem that i wrote that poem that i wouldn't and i think that can only go on itself and it says that going on so the same thing as
the defining what is reality i'm a plaster ago i wrote about that cut open without lamb overnight eloquence that ring as the alvin mr approximately and i'm madeline brand i have hair black angel black angels home nylon waits luminous and because i live in the girls girls or here's how the table like enlarges life takes a cardboard floor windows that flash opened on someone's many are reluctant
i'm martin followed by daniel craig as they think they're warm air war for a primer on all of that can fail but as reality that synthetic girl who should smile she hears should spring the doors open and i have no evidence of that i would cry if i had to essentially that was a pointless me now and rest of the band and although i do get very manic once unthinkable now it's like oh that was a line that as i was filming
i think it was something that was like a an award and got as tom lane and i used to love with an iconic it was really a lot of years that you're in touch with me and what was going on when is it ok if you know out there what a great craftsman home ringing the bell and this is the way they ring the bells in bed and there's the bell at you come teach tuesday morning to give us the music lesson and because the attendance make hugo and because we mined by instinct like these carbon along with a circle of the crazy ladies who sit in a lounge at the mental homes and smile smiling woman who passes us featured bell appointed my hand because my bow the lab
and this is the great rest next to me who grumbles is a special deal and these are the small hunt squirrel girl on the other side of me would exit the hair is overthrown it will exceed the hairs over her lippold a business whether bales really as an open plain is a workable kitchen and this is always like they are responding to my hand the response to political points at me a lot of all we are not that far they tell you to do i mean in the summer wondering well the newnan with a lot of river towns west of boston my ancestor william rooster came to america on the main line sounds like these and sort of man from what i've read it and the tree goes back over ninety minutes the world such as
william the conqueror in aggregate bird second are seeing a lot of brands thing fernanda and except for the music mean not when i find that no family genealogy end of the third round of the night at the cutter married or not mr h lee mr for picking out the eye with a third last thursday and shot a lot for my room until age five after that school i did not understand the people who were my father even the larger world of fighting fairytale read the daily life i did not even like my dolls with a reasonable people i wrote them on from high school but stop and another thing that i think it was my mother was brilliant vital one for a meeting or that you've written first editions an online like that because i wasn't happy on original infinite possibility would really in fact i looked at nineteen i found this somewhat unusual and write a fairytale quality
on that one so young thousand years ago when i was a lonely kid in a big house in order and it was somber as long as i can remember i lay on the lawn at night over wrinkling and i'm a wife dies reading over my mother's window of level of yellow he running on my father and i were hit and the boards of the house were smooth and white is why and probably a million legal sale of their frames far as the crickets together and die in my brand new body which was not the woman told the third reich and thought god could really think the heat indicated like elbows me streams good night it's been a week a thick file even a graveyard political avoiding my fellow my
body with the facts and protest was locked in my room all day behind a prison cell i was the exile groups that will say i will speak of a little child the movie being a beard the last year than in the last take of the nightly humiliation when mother and of the life of the daytime not in my room being the unwanted in the state that mother used to keep other orders divorce the romantics ran romantics the line to mass of other countries it's the noses and mountains into asia or the black are there carl reiner played a hero i mean we're used to some progress she couldn't sleep the main body one show and didn't step down the noses of so she couldn't
really i think of pluto so well made so perfectly put together as i pressed them against me to sing a little imaginary mom i remember this moves in those newly delivered that thinks him a mysterious china who are they came from mysterious about the hangar are born when i want you to visit the club where i rehearse all day among humans away from the glare of the bulbs in ceiling within the bed and a heavy table the fame terrible roads repeating on the wall i did not question it in the plots that point five and i grew into it like goats we had plans plans of right believing i would take my body into this friday it with me like a
large they still i wish you'd get there or at least to move out like an elevator without trains storing energy like a ball i planned my role and my woman want one choreographed that is i knew that if i waited among shoes i would shoot a lot the heavy off birds that that execution red shoes would lay together like partners the sneakers it with in our recipes we always empty and sensible with sashes and caucus callers into inch hands an evil religion i said are they stepping my heart into a shoe or avoiding a precious window as if it were an ugly yard through which birds are changes the heating avoiding the wallpaper of the room where tongued loomed over and over first thing from lips like sleep and in
this way i waited all day until my mother a large one thing to force me to and i lay there silently reading i did not ask about the gates of the plant i did not question the bedtime ritual where on the whole bathroom tiles i was spread out bailey and examined or law both those pieces of sculpture with knives i did not know the woman i would be you know the blood with booming me each month of an exotic flower nor their children to monuments would break from between my legs too cramped girls reading careless each asleep and i need you i did
not know that my life in the end would run out on my mother's like that truck and all that remains from the year i was there with a small hole in my heart yes so that i might hear the onset when you know which is that is because they're so beautiful i'm very lucky to have so they get a good thing the presence of money and you need to write and i shouldn't have to
tell you you know make tell me what happened i don't have another top of the recovery has been but i want to apart at the human sure if there are terrible little girl my spring being my lovely woman my daughter and eleven oh darling barn and that sweet birthday suit and having owned it and known it for so long now you must watch high noon balloon and coastal old and a little girl
this one under a blueberry sky this one how can i say that i've just watching and just where you it's not a strange place they thought home away or face getting on and so forth the summer has seized us plan last month and now they are some lemons is larger your desk cycle that miniature map of the world and i could mention to the market stalls of mushrooms and garlic song and cool where i think even of the orchard next door with a very very common and the apples are beginning to swell and once they are back i remember i planted in a pair of yellow beans we couldn't eat or little lies in how do we grow this
way you are too many to eat it here as in a dream the conversation of the older wise speaking when i remember that i heard in england so i was alone i waited a target let's finally enter dr of the goats once the romans believed that newman was the co star and i can believe it to want to start rolling stone and someday they will come to you someday man eric of the ways young romans at where they belong with ladders and hammers on the ones he says but before they enter i would've said before this painting and
in concrete but i want to say if i could've lost to cause a magical modern mind if i could've seen through my magical trends and belly they wouldn't incite riot in your embryo the sea taking on its own life clapping that that those loans from the home loans and to those areas a human and a heart jumping like a puppy important is it becoming while it becomes at it as a world of it's a delicate place i say hello to such shake and knocking the writing such music that route set damn thing that years of music
you are is that there is nothing in your body that lions that is new is telling the truth i'm here at somebody else an old tree in the background darling stand still at your door your ears so a white stone a good stone of exceptionalism laughter it was dry fire at a new thing and i like that
i'm crazy sleep longer
get longer with capsules and my palms each night at the time from sweet pharmaceutical awful i make arrangements for a pint sized i'm the queen of his condition i'm an expert on making the trip nowadays they are they ask why don't you know that i promised that i i'm keeping in the family's staying in show i'm on a diet yes i've met it's gotten to be a bit of a habit close at the time sent him ai weiwei buy the ink yeah right math that tablet is going to last for years or like the mall and i liked spending as hell they won't let go it's a kind of the kind of war art plant bombs inside of my soul yes i've tried to
kill myself in small amounts in innocuous actually i'm hung up on and i remember i don't make too much noise they're analyzing it i'm a little better in my yellow night the eating mighty loans in a row and in a certain order a lot like any other sport it's like the music of tennis match where my mouth keeps capturing all that i love my own term elevated by the chemical case that's what i'm mainly down this is going to mean to our and to agree to light the plants you just sleep eat is the heat
but don't poison every live well that many have for a long time and haven't talked to do with hell and suspicion of ai and religious doctrine and my heart's keeping radio mr day after day much like a ritual and a baby on the matter but that's too you cooked also as bell i kept right on going on for human statement reading i felt if i were the fed up body in the trunk that steamer trunk this became a perjury and so it became an outright
lie and even though i guess the body was still make it still you know but i played it that it up like somebody go fly something and over time we're going to get rid of it and burn everyone yelling at you to shut up people don't like to be calvin harris reports they lie open inside me like they're inside out a considerable ticking eye on the end of a bargain there was the sun for your wedding a virtually gambling enterprises and you realize that she does this mean i know she was a hero are but i hadn't it became really are like
and their husband's fate as the redwood two dollars to see your thinking roses don't know if i'm on fire again yvon thanks well a year thinking i was going to my job day with my little boy's but in place where any rights it didn't break away at warren's even crazy and that's nice and that chocolate bar even with the witches gymnastics they trust my incomparable city like a lot for their own years they thought the law which comes on you painter and i come with his vision my foot
and it is and turn my shadow three times ran an er puppies as big a dalmatian sweet didn't drown despite the warnings are destroyed despite the pale the war that waited to pull him down like stones they came to each one and years blowing bubbles the color of cataract lou and fumbling the tiny tips last week a donations because of a plan lined up like oracle each like the birch tree i promise to love more and they come together in spite of cruelty and stop railroad cars that the ovens i just played
repeating a black person all of that i say they'll live because of the sound the drain excitable here you go and second include that moment partly back publisher houghton mifflin in nineteen sixteen all my pretty one of nature in nineteen sixty two selected poems oxford university press nineteen sixty five collection live or die to be published by houghton mifflin and nineteen sixties so this is an ep a national educational television nationwide distribution of the proceeding
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- Series
- USA: Poetry
- Episode Number
- 7
- Episode
- Anne Sexton
- Producing Organization
- National Educational Television and Radio Center
- KQED-TV (Television station : San Francisco, Calif.)
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- cpb-aacip/516-3r0pr7nm05
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- Description
- Episode Description
- Anne Sexton, born in Newton, Massachusetts, in 1928, is married to Alfred E. Sexton and is the mother of two daughters. She was launched on her career as a poet as a result of the lectures of I.A. Richards over WGBH in Boston, explaining sonnet form. She had watched these programs on the advice of her psychiatrist, following a nervous breakdown. Some of Mrs. Sexton's poetry refers to her experiences in a mental hospital. Of her work, Robert Lowell has said, "I sometimes feel that she is one of the few people who could write a whole book, like the Spoon River Anthology, where the little moments prop the big moments and there'd be little waste. To an extent, she has done this, and made her life a treasury." Louis Untermeyer has said, "I know of no poetry of our day which is more poignant, more intense, or more convincing than Anne Sexton's." In this episode, Mrs. Sexton reads her poems Her Kind, Self in 1958, Ringing the Bells, The Addict, Young, Those Times, Little Girl, My String Bean, My Lovely Woman, and Live. She tells us that her ancestry goes back to William the Conqueror, Edward the 3rd, 2nd and 1st , Philip the 4th of France, and Ferdinand of Spain. USA: Poetry - Anne Sexton is a 1966 production of National Educational Television and KQED, San Francisco. Episode Running Time: 28:57 (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Series Description
- USA: Poetry is part of an assessment of the state of the literary arts in the United States, which concentrates on contemporary poets, with the opening episode on the late William Carlos Williams serving as an introduction to programs that follow. The 14 half-hour episodes that comprise the series were originally recorded on film.
- Broadcast Date
- 1966-07-31
- Asset type
- Episode
- Genres
- Performance
- Documentary
- Topics
- Literature
- Biography
- Rights
- Copyright National Educational Television & Radio Center July 31, 1966
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Duration
- 00:30:04
- Credits
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Executive Producer: Howard, Brice
Interviewee: Sexton, Anne
Performer: Sexton, Anne
Producer: Moore, Richard
Producing Organization: National Educational Television and Radio Center
Producing Organization: KQED-TV (Television station : San Francisco, Calif.)
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Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive
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Format: 16mm film
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- Chicago: “USA: Poetry; 7; Anne Sexton,” 1966-07-31, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed May 5, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-3r0pr7nm05.
- MLA: “USA: Poetry; 7; Anne Sexton.” 1966-07-31. American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. May 5, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-3r0pr7nm05>.
- APA: USA: Poetry; 7; Anne Sexton. Boston, MA: American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-3r0pr7nm05