The two poets in the Boston Brahmin group who could really write were Berryman & Plath. Sexton is interesting for the same reasons that Jerry Springer or reality TV are “interesting.” The poet in that tendency who deserves to be rediscovered, though, is George Starbuck.
from sillimans blog
ellroy wrote a short peice on anne sexton, dana delany and his mother in this months gq, and for me i would put lowell in that list- and switch plath with sexton.
maybe its b/c sexton seems to have a sense of daily muck interferring with holy mountain, but maybe thats me.