Anne Sexton: Teacher of Weird Abundance

Contents

vii Contents Foreword ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Chapter One Loss, Love, and the Work of Learning: Lessons from the Teaching Life of Anne Sexton 17 Chapter Two Teacher of “Weird Abundance”: A Portrait of the Pedagogical Tactics of Anne Sexton 35 Chapter Three Something Worth Learning: A Reading of the Student-Teacher Relationship Between Anne Sexton and John Holmes 51 Chapter Four “. . . [I] Bend Down My Strange Face to Yours, And Forgive You”: A Study of Anne Sexton’s Pedagogy of Reparation 81 Chapter Five Picturing the RACIAL INNOCENCE of Anne Sexton’s Pedagogy 103 Epilogue 119 Notes 123 Bibliography 131 Index 141 ...