In the case of George Starbuck
a love-affair was succeeded by a longer-lived friendship. In the case of James Wright
the friendship and the love-affair developed together, but ended with Wright withdrawing.
Middlebrook, Diane Wood. Anne Sexton: A Biography. Houghton Mifflin, 1991.
AS
wrote these thirty-nine poems in a period of twenty days, with two days out for despair and three days out in a mental hospital, in January 1973.
qtd. in
Middlebrook, Diane Wood. Anne Sexton: A Biography. Houghton Mifflin, 1991.
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At the end of each day...
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Anne Sexton
She titled the volume from the words of Shakespeare
's character Macduff when he hears of the murder of his wife and children; this borrowing was suggested by James Wright
.
Middlebrook, Diane Wood. Anne Sexton: A Biography. Houghton Mifflin, 1991.