If I could blame it on all the mothers and fathers of the world, they of the lessons, the pellets of power, they of the love surrounding you like batter ... Blame it on God perhaps? He of the first opening that pushed us all into our first mistakes? No, I'll blame it on Man For Man is God and man is eating the earth up like a candy bar and not one of them can be left alone with the ocean for it is known he will gulp it all down. The stars (possibly) are safe. At least for the moment. The stars are pears that no one can reach, even for a wedding. Perhaps for a death.

Within twelve years of writing her first sonnet Anne Sexton was one of the most honored poets in America: a Pulitzer Prize winner a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the first female member of the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. He diagnosed her with what is now described as bipolar disorder but his competence to do so is called into question by his early use of allegedly unsound psychotherapeutic techniques.

She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967. Themes of her poetry include her suicidal tendencies long battle against depression and various intimate details from her private life including her relationships with her husband and children. Anne Sexton (November 9 1928 Newton Massachusetts – October 4 1974 Weston Massachusetts) was an American poet known for her highly personal confessional verse.