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Anne Sexton (1928-1974) was an American poet. She wrote about troubling, intimate experiences in a style intended to reveal raw feeling. Sexton dealt with such subjects as her mental illness, her sexuality, and her parents and children from a specifically female point of view. She began to write with the encouragement of her psychiatrist. Her poetry remains the vision of a disturbed suicidal individual, but it attempts to speak for modern experience as a whole. Her approach follows a trend set by the confessional poets Sylvia Plath, John Berryman, and Sexton's former teacher Robert Lowell.

Sexton's first book of poems, To Bedlam and Part Way Back (1960), describes her emotional difficulties, her first suicide attempt, and her first experience in a mental institution. She also uses these themes in Live or Die (1966), a book of poems that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1967.

Anne Harvey Sexton was born in Newton, Massachusetts. She briefly studied at the Garland School, a finishing school for women, before eloping in 1948. Sexton committed suicide in 1974. Her Complete Poems was published in 1981.

Lippstadt
city, North Rhine-Westphalia Land (state), northwestern Germany. It lies along the Lippe River, on the slopes of the Teutoburger Wald. Lippstadt was probably founded by the lords of Lippe in 1168, and it joined the Hanseatic League in 1280. Half of the town passed to the county of Mark, which in 1614 was acquired by Brandenburg. In 1850 the prince of Lippe-Detmold sold his share to Prussia when this joint lordship ceased.

Lippstadt has several 13th-century churches, old half-timbered houses, and a town hall dating from 1773, and there is a fine Rococo hall in the Hotel Köppelmann. The moated castles of Overhagen, Eringerfeld, Heringhausen, and Körtlinghausen are nearby. The city is a rail junction, with iron foundries and metalworking, and textile manufacturing. Pop. (1989 est.) 60,396.

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