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A review by raluca_p
No Evil Star: Selected Essays, Interviews, and Prose by Anne Sexton
5.0
God damn it, father-doctor / I'm really thirty six. / I see dead rats in the toilet. / I'm one of the lunatics.
"Marx: In your book, All My Pretty Ones, you quote this part of a letter written by Franz Kafka: The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves. A book should serve as the axe for the frozen sea within us. Is this the purpose you want your poetry to serve?
Sexton: Absolutely. I feel it should do that. I think it should be a shock to the senses. It should almost hurt."
"Marx: In your book, All My Pretty Ones, you quote this part of a letter written by Franz Kafka: The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves. A book should serve as the axe for the frozen sea within us. Is this the purpose you want your poetry to serve?
Sexton: Absolutely. I feel it should do that. I think it should be a shock to the senses. It should almost hurt."