by TANYA E. CLEMENT
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Anne Sexton Class Visit at Sweetbriar College, 1966
Recording annotations and transcription by Tanya Clement
Anne Sexton Papers 1912-1996, R 0084, Harry Ransom Center.
17:10 Anne Sexton (AS): . . . I’m going to give you a hint, a lesson. Read slow. The only thing you’ve got to do is read slow.
17:11 Student: Ok.
17:11 AS: ‘Slowly’? What do you say? Which is it? ‘Slowly’?
17:15 Students: [laughter]
17:19 AS: How am I supposed to know? I, put it my way, ‘Read slow.’ Just keep thinking that to yourself, because it’s hard to get a poem. [Read more…] about LISTEN SLOW: Researching Anne Sexton putting poetry her way
