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Anne Sexton
American poet Anne Sexton became one of the leading figures of confessional poetry...
Elsa Dorfman
Robert Lowell, c. 1960
American poet Robert Lowell published the confessional collection Life Studies...
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Sylvia Plath, 1950
Ariel, an astonishing collection of deeply personal poems by American poet...
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John Berryman
American poet John Berryman used alter egos and humor in his autobiographical poems,...
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Jericho Brown, 2023
American poet Jericho Brown's collections The New Testament (2014) and The...
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