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Rose McGowan
“Consorting with Angels” is one of my favorite Sexton poems, but with so much raw power it is hard to choose. “I was tired of being a woman, tired of the spoons and the post, tired of my mouth and my breasts, tired of the cosmetics and the silks.” Sexton was and is so vital and so brazen. Mad respect.
View Rose McGowan's Top 10 Favorite BooksAndrew Solomon
A life’s work may occupy shelf upon shelf, or all the genius may be distilled down to a concentrate of wisdom, and I would love to think that I’ve ever thought anything as clearly as Bishop has thought each of her poems. My favorite lines forever: It is like what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free, drawn from the cold hard mouth of the world, derived from the rocky breasts forever, flowing and drawn, and since our knowledge is historical, flowing, and flown.
View Andrew Solomon's Top 10 Favorite BooksRose McGowan
“Consorting with Angels” is one of my favorite Sexton poems, but with so much raw power it is hard to choose. “I was tired of being a woman, tired of the spoons and the post, tired of my mouth and my breasts, tired of the cosmetics and the silks.” Sexton was and is so vital and so brazen. Mad respect.
View Rose McGowan's Top 10 Favorite Books