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Interview with Anne Sexton

by Patricia Marx

The Hudson Review, Winter 1965, pp. 560-570

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    1. Detective Fiction by Brigid Brophy, pp. 11-30
    2. Dirty Words? by Benjamin De Mott, pp. 31-44
    3. Five Poems by Anne Sexton, pp. 45-53
    4. A Haitian Gentleman (story) by Herbert Gold, pp. 54-66
    5. Edmund to Gloucester by W.D. Snodgrass, p. 67
    6. Two Poems by May Swenson, pp. 68-69
    7. Notes on the Noh by Donald Richie, pp. 70-80
    8. Theatre Chronicle by John Simon, pp. 81-90
    9. Some Obiter Dicta on Recent French Films by Vernon Young, pp. 91-98
    10. Music and Ballet Chronicle by B.H. Haggin, pp. 99-104
    11. The Art Audience and the Critic by Henry Geldzahler, pp. 105-109
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      1. Abraxas by Arlene Zekowski
      2. The Multiple Modern Gods, and Other Stories by Stanley Berne
      3. The Blue Room by Georges Simenon
      4. The Accomplices by Georges Simenon
      5. The Erasers by Alain Robbe-Grillet
      6. Jealousy and Medicine by Michal Choromanski
      7. Rosa at Ten O'Clock by Marco Denevi
      8. I Know What I'm Doing by Hans Koning
      9. All the Beautiful People by Richard Dowling
      10. Drive, He Said by Jeremy Larner
      11. Cabot Wright Begins by James Purdy
      12. The Key to My Heart by V.S. Pritchett
      13. Martha Quest by Doris M. Lessing
      14. A Proper Marriage by Doris May Lessing
      15. The Sun of Death by Pandelis Prevelakis
      16. The Door in the Wall by Oliver La Farge
      17. The Night of the Giraffe and Other Stories by Alfred Andersch
      18. Short Friday, and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer
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      1. Shadow and Act by Ralph Ellison
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      A Woman Killed with Kindness by Howard Green, pp. 129-132 - 2 Reviews
      1. Isak Dinesen: A Memorial by Clara Svendsen
      2. Isak Dinesen's Art: The Gayety of Vision by Robert Woodrow Langbaum
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      1. Country Without Maps by Jean Garrigue
      2. Figures of the Human by David Ignatow
      3. New and Selected Poems by Thomas McGrath
      4. Broken Death by Elliott Coleman
      5. Dawn Visions by Daniel Moore
      6. Preambles and Other Poems by Alvin Feinman
      7. The World, the Worldless by William Bronk
      8. A Circle of Stone by Miller Williams
      9. The Window by Vern Rutsala
      10. Figure for Scamander, and Others by Carol Johnson
      11. Heroes, Advise Us by Adrien Stoutenburg
      12. Arms of Light by Claire McAllister
      13. Sun City by Bruce Cutler
      14. Four Infinitives by Thomas Whitbread
      15. Rhymes of a Pfc by Lincoln Kirstein
      16. Progressions, and Other Poems by Albert Spaulding Cook
      17. Midnight in the Century by Maurice English
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      What A Life! by Gerald Weales, pp. 142-153 - 2 Reviews
      1. The Life of the Drama by Eric Bentley
      2. The Theatre of Revolt by Robert S. Brustein
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      Behold the Man, If You Can by George P. Elliott, pp. 154-162 - 2 Reviews
      1. My Autobiography by Charles Chaplin
      2. Life With Picasso by Francoise Gilot and Carlton Lake
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    Summer 1965 Issue = 20 Articles
    1. The Ambiguity of Fame by E.M. Cioran, pp. 171-181
    2. Crosswinds: Park West by Jack Marshall, pp. 182-187
    3. Four Poems by William Dickey, pp. 188-192
    4. One Night for Several Samurai (story) by Joseph Whitehill, pp. 193-229
    5. The Conquest by Lysander Kemp, pp. 230-231
    6. Three Poems by Alan Sillitoe, pp. 232-233
    7. Equinox; Cages by Ruth Fainlight, pp. 234-235
    8. Mary Barnard's Sappho by Burton Raffel, pp. 236-241
    9. Theatre Chronicle by John Simon, pp. 242-251
    10. The Red Desert: Neurosis a la Mode by Stephen Taylor, pp. 252-258
    11. Music and Ballet Chronicle by B.H. Haggin, pp. 259-268
    12. The Writer's Duty and His Predicament by Hans J. Morgenthau, pp. 269-273
    13. A reply by Norman Podhoretz, pp. 274-276
    14. Notes on ContributorsS, p. 277
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      1. Late Call by Angus Wilson
      2. The White Father by Julian Mitchell
      3. The Woman from Sarajevo by Ivo Andric
      4. Bell Call by Sylvia Ashton-Warner
      5. Vonda Rosegood by Richard Dohrman
      6. One Day by Wright Morris
      7. The Game of Dostoevsky by Samuel Astrachan
      8. The Final Beast by Frederick Buechner
      9. An American Dream by Norman Mailer
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      1. The Infernal Machine, and Other Plays by Jean Cocteau
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      1. Anthology of Modern Indonesian Poetry by Burton Raffel
      2. Selected Poems by Leopold Sedar Senghor
      3. Anthology of Korean Poetry by Peter H. Lee
      4. The Brass Serpent by T. Carmi
      5. Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral by Doris Dana and Gabriela Mistral
      6. The Garden in the Evening by Antonio Machado
      7. Three Hundred Poems, 1903-53 by Juan Ramon Jimenez
      8. Roots and Branches by Robert Edward Duncan
      9. Seven Occasions by Hollis Summers
      10. Pretending Not to Sleep by Ian Hamilton
      11. A Roof of Tiger Lilies by Donald Hall
      12. Nothing for Tigers by Hayden Carruth
      13. The Lost World by Randall Jarrell
      14. Death of the Kapowsin Tavern by Richard F. Hugo
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      1. The Modern Tradition by Richard Ellmann and Charles Feidelson, Jr.
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    2. Six Poems by Dennis Schmitz, pp. 351-355
    3. Autumn Sequence by Adrienne Rich, pp. 356-358
    4. An Eye on the Weather (story) by Benjamin De Mott, pp. 359-369
    5. Dithyrambic Elegy for Bolivar by Carlos Pellicer and Lysander Kemp, pp. 370-372
    6. Translations from St. John of the Cross by Burton Raffel, pp. 373-375
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    8. In Puerto Vallarta by Anthony Ostroff, p. 387
    9. Two Poems by F.D. Reeve, pp. 388-389
    10. On Seeing a Photograph of Citizen Khrushchev by Stewart L. Udall, p. 390
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      4. Religious Humanism and the Victorian Novel by U.C. Knoepflmacher
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      2. Postwar Polish Poetry by Czeslaw Milosz
      3. Harlem Gallery: Book I, The Curator by M.B. Tolson
      4. Tape for the Turn of the Year by A.R. Ammons
      5. Corson's Inlet by A.R. Ammons
      6. Saint Thomas by Tram Combs
      7. Finding Them Lost, and Other Poems by Howard Moss
      8. The Selected Poems of John Holmes by John Holmes
      9. Identities by William Robert Moses
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    1. On the Methods and Ambitions of Poetry by Anthony Hecht, pp. 489-505
    2. The Room (story) by Michael L. Glenn, pp. 506-522
    3. Five Poems by David Wagoner, pp. 523-527
    4. Six Poems by William Stafford, pp. 528-531
    5. The Treason of the Clerks Takes Many Forms by Herbert Morris, pp. 532-533
    6. At Dawn: Under the Fir by Dorothy Roberts, p. 534
    7. The Man on the Wharf by Philip Booth, pp. 535-536
    8. Love in Ovid and Lucretius by Irving Singer, pp. 537-559
    9. Interview with Anne Sexton by Patricia Marx, pp. 560-570
    10. Theatre Chronicle by John Simon, pp. 571-580
    11. Happenings: Theatre by Painters by Henry Geldzahler, pp. 581-586
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      4. The Peacock's Tail by Edward Hoagland
      5. The Death of William Posters by Alan Sillitoe
      6. Midnight Cowboy by James Leo Herlihy
      7. The Desert of the Heart by Jane Rule
      8. Totempole by Sanford Friedman
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      10. The Diary of a Mad Old Man by Junichiro Tanizaki
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