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Poetry Unpacked: On Addiction
COLLAPSING GEOMETRIES (Click link for poem) “Sleepmonger, deathmonger, with capsules in my palms each night, eight at a time from sweet pharmaceutical bottles.” — Anne Sexton, “The Addict” Poetry Unpacked: On Addiction Anne Sexton’s phrasing – Sleepmonger – Deathmonger: there is no romance here. There is no metaphor trying to rescue the experience of addiction from…