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"Put your ear down close to the soul and listen hard," wrote Anne Sexton. Few modern poets had a more troubled soul than she. Sexton’s breakthrough came with Live or Die, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1967. The book’s chronological arrangement of poems written between 1962 and 1966 traced the trajectory from despair toward an affirmation of life, culminating in the defiant "Live."
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"The eyes of the United States are turned upon this assembly and their expectations raised to a very anxious degree. May God grant that we may be able to gratify them, by establishing a wise and just government."
