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Middlebrook, Diane Wood was born on April 16, 1939 in Pocatello, Idaho, United States. Daughter of Thomas Isaac and Helen Loretta (Downey) Wood.
( Many of us approach poetry warily, unsure how to go abo...)
Many of us approach poetry warily, unsure how to go about reading a poem with the proper kind of attention. Worlds into Worlds is an informal companion for poetry reading―a resource of information, observations, and interpretations. Diane Wood Middlebrook draws on her experience as both teacher and poet to show us how to read even difficult modern poems with pleasure. She analyzes the work of a number of poets and also discusses some of her own poems, showing how the creative process unfolds.
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(Anne Sexton began writing poetry at the age of twenty-nin...)
Anne Sexton began writing poetry at the age of twenty-nine to keep from killing herself. She held on to language for dear life and somehow -- in spite of alcoholism and the mental illness that ultimately led her to suicide -- managed to create a body of work that won a Pulitzer Prize and that still sings to thousands of readers. This exemplary biography, which was nominated for the National Book Award, provoked controversy for its revelations of infidelity and incest and its use of tapes from Sexton's psychiatric sessions. It reconciles the many Anne Sextons: the 1950s housewife; the abused child who became an abusive mother; the seductress; the suicide who carried "kill-me pills" in her handbag the way other women carry lipstick; and the poet who transmuted confession into lasting art.
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(Ted Hughes married Sylvia Plath in 1956, at the outset of...)
Ted Hughes married Sylvia Plath in 1956, at the outset of their brilliant careers. Plath's suicide six and a half years later, for which many held Hughes accountable, changed his life, his closest relationships, his standing in the literary world and brought new significance to his poetry. In this stunning new biography of their marriage, Diane Middlebrook renders a portrait of Hughes as a man, as a poet and as a husband, haunted - and nourished - his entire life by the aftermath of his first marriage. Middlebrook presents Hughes as a complicated, conflicted figure: sexually magnetic, fiercely ambitious, immensely caring and shrewd in business. She argues that Plath's suicide, though it devastated Hughes and made him vulnerable to the savage attacks of Plath's growing readership, ultimately gave him his true subject - recreating himself for posterity through his marriage to Sylvia Plath and his struggles within his own historical circumstances.
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(Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath were husband and wife; they w...)
Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath were husband and wife; they were also two of the most remarkable poets of the twentieth century. In this stunning new account of their marriage, Diane Middlebrook draws on a trove of newly available papers to craft a beautifully written portrait of Hughes as a man, as a poet, and as a husband haunted?and nourished?his entire life by his relationship to Sylvia Plath. Her Husband is a triumph of the biographer?s art and an up-close look at a couple who saw each other as the means to becoming who they wanted to be: writers and mythic representations of a whole generation.
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Middlebrook, Diane Wood was born on April 16, 1939 in Pocatello, Idaho, United States. Daughter of Thomas Isaac and Helen Loretta (Downey) Wood.
Bachelor, University Washington, 1961. Master of Arts, Yale University, 1962. Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1968.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), Kenyon College, 1999. Doctor of Letters (honorary), University Massachusetts, Dartmouth, 2005.
Assistant professor, Stanford (California) U., 1966-1973; associate professor, Stanford (California) U., 1973-1983; professor, Stanford (California) U., since 1983; D, Stanford (California) U. director Center for Research on Women, Stanford (California) U., 1977-1979.
(Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath were husband and wife; they w...)
( Many of us approach poetry warily, unsure how to go abo...)
(Anne Sexton began writing poetry at the age of twenty-nin...)
(Ted Hughes married Sylvia Plath in 1956, at the outset of...)
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Founding trustee Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, California, 1980—1983, chair, 1994. Trustee San Francisco Art Institute, 1993. Fellow: Royal Society Literature.
Member: Modern Language Association, Authors Guild, Christs College Cambridge (honorary), The Athenaeum Club, Biographers Club.
Married Jonathan Middlebrook, June 15, 1963 (divorced 1972). 1 child, Leah Wood Middlebrook. Married Carl Djerassi, June 21, 1985.