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From the joy and anguish of her own experience, Sexton fashioned poems that told truths about the inner lives of men and women. This book comprises her ten volumes of verse, including the Pulitzer Prize-winner--"Live or Die".

"One long poem, called 'The Operation,' is absolutely superb. Its unflinching candor, clarity, matter-of-factness set a standard which is almost unrivaled in contemporary verse....Yet ...many suffer from sheer excess, as though the poet were straining every sense to try to identify with her subject matter."

Peter Davison, Atlantic Monthly, 11/62

"With her first book...['To Bedlam and Part Way Back'], Anne Sexton threw a startling light over the poetic horizon; discerning poets and critics picked up their telescopes and reported something very like a new planet....Her handling, in poetic form, of her own exposed and wounded psyche, seemed appalling, but courageous.... Her method is as uninhibited as entries in a diary or letter writing....[Y]et when we examine for form we find it solidly there, and its expertness is a pleasurable thing in contrast to the often mercilous debridement taking place in the content."

May Swenson, Nation, 2/23/63

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