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Lot of three typed letters signed by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Anne Sexton, all from 1974 and one less than a month before her death. With all three on her personal letterhead, Sexton writes to Janet Marie Roberts (née Wittler), an aspiring poet, and draws daisies on two of the letters ''for good luck''. In her last letter, dated 10 September 1974, Sexton encourages Wittler to enroll in the creative writing program at Boston University where Sexton is a Professor. In another letter Sexton replies that she can't know the impact of her poetry, and that ''One just stumbles over the keys of a typewriter or the scrawls of a pen and lets the blood flow onto the page.'' The inclusion of the daisy artwork in two of these letters is quite rare, as only one other published letter by Sexton includes a hand-drawn daisy. The flower is also referenced in several of Sexton's poems and seems to have been adopted by her as a personal endearment. Signed in black felt-tip, each letter measures 8.5'' x 11'', all in their original envelopes. Very good condition.
Lot of Three Letters Signed by Poet Anne Sexton -- ''One just...lets the blood flow onto the page.''
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