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Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

By: Anne Sexton

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Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

By: Anne Sexton

A selection of poems by contemporary American author Anne Sexton, drawn primarily from eight previously published collections.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0618057048

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9780618057047

Anne Sexton

A Self-portrait in Letters

By: Anne Sexton

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A Self-portrait in Letters

By: Anne Sexton

A collection of letters written by poet Anne Sexton in which she describes her life, thoughts and feelings, with previously unpublished poems and family pictures and memorabilia.

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488

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0618492429

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9780618492428

The Complete Poems

By: Anne Sexton

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The collected works of Anne Sexton showcase the astonishing career of one of the twentieth century’s most influential poets For Anne Sexton, writing served as both a means of expressing the inner turmoil she experienced for most of her life and as a therapeutic force through which she exorcised her demons. Some of the richest poetic descriptions of depression, anxiety, and desperate hope can be found within Sexton’s work. The Complete Poems, which includes the eight collections published during her life, two posthumously published books, and other poems collected after her death, brings together her remarkable body of work with all of its range of emotion. With her first collection, the haunting To Bedlam and Part Way Back, Sexton stunned critics with her frank treatment of subjects like masturbation, incest, and abortion, blazing a trail for representations of the body, particularly the female body, in poetry. She documented four years of mental illness in her moving Pulitzer Prize–winning collection Live or Die, and reimagined classic fairy tales as macabre and sardonic poems in Transformations. The Awful Rowing Toward God, the last book finished in her lifetime, is an earnest and affecting meditation on the existence of God. As a whole, The Complete Poems reveals a brilliant yet tormented poet who bared her deepest urges, fears, and desires in order to create extraordinarily striking and enduring art.

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626

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Open Road Media

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1504034368

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9781504034364

Mercies

Selected Poems

By: Anne Sexton

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Mercies

Selected Poems

By: Anne Sexton

The ground-breaking work of the poet who paved the way for generations of women writers, in a new selection by her daugher and literary executor, Linda Gray Sexton When Anne Sexton took her own life in October 1974, she left behind a body of work which had already, in less than two decades of writing, won her the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, established her as one of the foremost voices of her generation, and shocked America by breaking multiple taboos of subject matter, from insanity, depression and addiction to menstruation, adultery and the figure of the witch. Sexton's name is legendary. Her poetry is read around the world, translated into over thirty languages, and in her own country remains a touchstone for poets and readers looking for rawness of perception, vitality of expression, confessional frankness and fiery passion. Yet, incredibly, there has been no new UK edition of her work for decades. In Mercies, readers are provided with a resonant new selection from the writings of this natural phenomenon of a poet.

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Penguin UK

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0141993782

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9780141993782

Live or Die

Poems

By: Anne Sexton

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Live or Die

Poems

By: Anne Sexton

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: A gripping poetry collection mapping the thorny journey from madness to hope With her emotionally raw and deeply resonant third collection, Live or Die, Anne Sexton confirmed her place among the most celebrated poets of the twentieth century. Sexton described the volume, which depicts a fictionalized version of her struggle with mental illness, as “a fever chart for a bad case of melancholy.” From the halls of a psychiatric hospital—“the scene of the disordered scenes” in “Flee on Your Donkey”—to a child’s playroom—“a graveyard full of dolls” in “Those Times . . .”—these gripping poems offer profound insight on the agony of depression and the staggering acts of courage and faith required to emerge from its depths. Along with other confessional poets like Sylvia Plath and Robert Lowell, Sexton was known for grappling with intimate subjects traditionally considered taboo for poetry such as motherhood, menstruation, and drug dependence. Live or Die features these topics in candid and unflinching detail, as Sexton represents the full experience of being alive—and a woman—as few poets have before. Through bold images and startlingly precise language, Sexton explores the broad spectrum of human emotion ranging from desperate despair to unfettered hope.

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112

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Open Road Media

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1504034341

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9781504034340

Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

By: Anne Sexton

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A selection of poems by contemporary American author Anne Sexton, drawn primarily from eight previously published collections.

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9780618057047

No Evil Star

Selected Essays, Interviews, and Prose

By: Anne Sexton

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No Evil Star

Selected Essays, Interviews, and Prose

By: Anne Sexton

Collects the best of Anne Sexton's memoirs and prose reflections on her development as a poet

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Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press

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0472063669

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9780472063666

Anne Sexton

A Self-Portrait in Letters

By: Anne Sexton

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A Self-Portrait in Letters

By: Anne Sexton

A revealing collection of letters from Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Anne Sexton While confessional poet Anne Sexton included details of her life and battle with mental illness in her published work, her letters to family, friends, and fellow poets provide an even more intimate glimpse into her private world. Selected from thousands of letters and edited by Linda Gray Sexton, the poet’s daughter, and Lois Ames, one of her closest friends, this collection exposes Sexton’s inner life from her boarding school days through her years of growing fame and ultimately to the months leading up to her suicide. Correspondence with writers like W. D. Snodgrass, Robert Lowell, and May Swenson reveals Sexton’s growing confidence in her identity as a poet as she discusses her craft, publications, and teaching appointments. Her private letters chart her marriage to Alfred “Kayo” Sexton, from the giddy excitement following their elopement to their eventual divorce; her grief over the death of her parents; her great love for her daughters balanced with her frustration with the endless tasks of being a housewife; and her persistent struggle with depression. Going beyond the angst and neuroses of her poetry, these letters portray the full complexities of the woman behind the art: passionate, anguished, ambitious, and yearning for connection.

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443

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Open Road Media

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1504034376

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9781504034371

An Accident of Hope

The Therapy Tapes of Anne Sexton

By: Dawn Skorczewski

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An Accident of Hope

The Therapy Tapes of Anne Sexton

By: Dawn Skorczewski

First Published in 2012. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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270

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Routledge

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041588747X

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9780415887472

Book's by Anne Sexton

Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

Anne Sexton

Anne Sexton

The Complete Poems

The Complete Poems

Mercies

Mercies

Live or Die

Live or Die

Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

No Evil Star

No Evil Star

Anne Sexton

Anne Sexton

An Accident of Hope

An Accident of Hope

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