James Wright

AS made many friends among her fellow poets: Kumin , Soter , William DeWitt Snodgrass , Sylvia Plath (whose death affected her deeply), George Starbuck and James Wright (who were also her lovers), and Anthony Hecht

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.

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 . In the title...

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. At the end of each day...