Anne Sexton — USA: Poetry, NET Outtakes Series: March 10, 1966

The Poetry Center presents Anne Sexton, reading her poetry and talking with poet/filmmaker Richard O. Moore about her work. She reads and speaks on poems from her book that was published the same year, Live or Die (Houghton Mifflin, 1966), among others. The footage was filmed March 10, 1966 at Sexton's home in Weston, Massachusetts, in the poet's study and outside the house, with Moore and with her family, husband Alfred Sexton and their two daughters. 

The "Second Edition" NET Outtakes Series programs were made in 1978 by The Poetry Center's American Poetry Archives staff. Assembled from unused 16-millimeter black and white film footage shot during production of the original 15-minute USA: Poetry television programs (produced in 1965–66 for National Educational Television by Richard O. Moore of the film unit of KQED-TV, San Francisco), the outtakes footage is arranged here in the original shooting sequence. Note, some silent footage appears among the outtakes. Funding for The Poetry Center's NET Outtakes Series was provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. 

Publisher
American Poetry Archives
Location
Anne Sexton's home, Weston, Massachusetts
Date
1966-03-10
Event Run Time
01:28:58
Contributors
Richard O. Moore
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Anne Sexton (01:24:25)

Anne Sexton, at her home talking with Richard O. Moore, discusses "You, Dr. Martin," "Flee on Your Donkey," and "Ringing the Bells." She reads her poems "Pain for a Daughter," "Her Kind," "Two Sons," "Woman with Girdle," "Lullaby," "The Addict," "Wanting to Die," "The Sun," "Menstruation at 40," "Live," "Housewife," "Some Foreign Letters," and part of "The House."

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