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LISTEN SLOW: Researching Anne Sexton putting poetry her way

October 8, 2020 - Harry Ransom Center

by TANYA E. CLEMENT

This essay is part of a slow research series, What is Research? Learn about the series and click here to add your voice to the conversation. 


Annotated Audio:

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

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ABOUT TANYA E. CLEMENT

Tanya E. Clement is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Texas at Austin. Her primary areas of research are textual studies, sound studies, and infrastructure studies as these concerns impact academic research, research libraries, and the creation of research tools and resources in the digital humanities (DH). She has published widely in digital humanities and literary studies.

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