#the complete poems of anne sexton

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Anne Sexton, from The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton; "Hornet,"

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How happy I am, daisies, to love you. How happy you are to be loved and found magical, like a secret.

Anne Sexton, from The Furies (The Fury Of Flowers And Worms) in " The Complete Poems Of Anne Sexton'

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Further, I must not dream, for when I do I see the table set, and a faltering crone at my place; her eyes burnt by cigarettes, as she eats betrayal like a slice of meat.

Anne Sexton, Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty)

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Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems

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Anne Sexton, from “The Complete Poems; ‘Suicide Note’”, originally published c. 1999.

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How It Was: Maxine Kumin on Anne Sexton, from Anne Sexton: The Complete Poems

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The poetry that inspired Jeff Buckley

Aimee Ferrier

Sun 1 October 2023 21:15, UK

Voices as incredible as the one belonging to Jeff Buckley don’t come around too often. Unfortunately, after releasing one record, Grace, Buckley, with all his potential, was taken away too soon. At the age of 30, the singer went for a swim from which he never returned, drowning in the Mississippi River.

Yet, his legacy lives on as one of the most influential artists to emerge from the 1990s, and his music is widely celebrated today for its emotional and lyrical complexity. Not only did Buckley possess an otherworldly voice, but he was also an extremely gifted guitar player and writer, with all his talents combining to create a masterful body of work.

Even when Buckley was covering other artists’ songs, such as ‘Lilac Wine’, ‘The Other Woman’ and ‘Hallelujah’, he imbued the pieces with his own distinctive style. Yet, his penchant for covers wasn’t a reflection of an aversion to writing. Buckley knew how to pen a stunningly poetic track, with songs like ‘Lover, You Should’ve Come Over’ and ‘Morning Theft’ suggesting that even if Buckley didn’t have the vocal pipes he was gifted with, he’d get by just fine as a writer.

Buckley took inspiration from many different writers and musicians when writing his own songs. Musically, Buckley looked back to folk artists like Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan and, of course, his own father, Tim Buckley, from whom he was estranged. Elsewhere, he loved the work of Pakistani singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, the rich tones of Nina Simone, and Led Zeppelin, calling Robert Plant “my man”.

However, when it came to his literary inspirations, Buckley had an extensive book collection, which he no doubt looked to for ideas when writing his lyrics. He owned a lot of poetry, with Rainer Maria Rilke proving to be a particular favourite. Not only did Buckley own Dunio Elegies, Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations Poems from the Book of Hours, but he also owned his epistolary collection Letters to a Young Poet.

Buckley was also a fan of the classic American poet Walt Whitman, owning Leaves of Grass and From the Soil. Of course, no poetry collection is complete without copies of Arthur Rimbaud’s A Season in Hell and Illuminations, alongside some Charles Baudelaire – Buckley-owned Paris Spleen. The singer also owned the Selected Poems of confessional poet Anne Sexton and modernist writer T.S Eliot.

Check out Buckley’s complete poetry collection below.

The poetry that inspired Jeff Buckley:

Dunio Elegies – Rainer Maria Rilke

Poems from the Book of Hours – Rilke

Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations – Rilke

Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman

From This Soil – Whitman

The Odyssey – Homer

Early Work, 1970-1979 – Patti Smith

You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense – Charles Bukowski

Selected Poems of Ezra Pound

The Complete Lyrics – Hank Williams

A Haiku Journey: Basho’s Narrow Road to a Far Province – Matsuo Basho

Paris Spleen – Charles Baudelaire

The Captain’s Verses – Pablo Neruda

Selected Poems – T.S. Eliot

A Season in Hell and Illuminations – Arthur Rimbaud

Writing and Drawings – Bob Dylan

Ode to Walt Whitman – Federico Garcia Lorca

New Poems: 1962 – Robert Graves

Fear of Dreaming: The Selected Poems – Jim Carroll

Selected Poems of Anne Sexton – Anne Sexton

Selected Poems – John Shaw Neilson

Selected Poems: Summer Knowledge – Demore Schwartz

The Collected Poems of Frank O’Hara – Frank O’Hara

Poems – Pier Paolo Pasolini

Space: And Other Poems – Eliot Katz

Tim Buckley Lyrics

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Anne Sexton, "For John, Who Begs Me Not to Enquire Further," The Complete Poems

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"I am delicate. You’ve been gone. / The losing has hurt me some, yet / I must bend for you. See me arch. I’m turned on." - Anne Sexton, from The Complete Poems; “Eighteen Days Without You,

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Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth.

Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems

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Anne Sexton, "Killing the Love" from The Complete Poems

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Anne Sexton, from The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton; "Going Gone,"

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Cool, cool, all day that Sunday in July

when we were young and did not look into the abyss,

Anne Sexton, from "The Furies" (the fury of sundays) in The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton

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I'm all shot up with Novocain. This trance girl is yours to do with.

Anne Sexton, Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty)

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“Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth.”

~ Anne Sexton - The Complete Poems

Artwork by Charles J. Dwyer 1961 - Wisconsin

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How It Was: Maxine Kumin on Anne Sexton, from Anne Sexton: The Complete Poems