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Synopsis
Preface by Kurt Connegut, Jr. Beware! Keep out of reach of children! These poem-storis are a strange reenactment of seventeen Grimm fairy tales. What is most astonishing about these transformations is that they end up being as wholly personal as Anne Sexton's most intimate poems, coming curiously, for all their story-sound, from as deep a place. C.K. Williams writes: "Her metaphoric strength has never been greater - really funny, among other things, a dark, dark laughter" The tales sh has transormed include "Snow White", "Rumpelstiltskin", "Rapunzel", "The Twelve Dancing Princesses," The Frog Prince," and "Red Riding Hood" They create a wonderful little universe, and sho the poet in a new role, with a voice strangely prophetic. In his preface Kurt Vonnegut ways: "I asked a poet friend one time what it was that poets did, and he thought awhile and then he told me, " They extend the language.: Anne Sexton does a deeper favor for me: she domesticates my terror, examines it ad describes it, teaches it some tricks which willl amuse me, then lets it gallop into my forest once more. Drawings by Barbara Swan
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About the Author
Anne Sexton (1928-1974), the author of ten collections of poems, received the Pulitzer Prize in 1967.
Review
"A funny, mad, witty, frightening, charming, haunting book."
The New York Times
"These poem-stories are a strange retelling of seventeen Grimms fairy tales, including Snow White,” Rumpelstiltskin,” Rapunzel,” The Twelve Dancing Princesses,” The Frog Prince,” and Red Riding Hood.” Astonishingly, they are as wholly personal as Anne Sexton’s most intimate poems. Her metaphoric strength has never been greater really funny, among other things, a dark, dark laughter.” -- C. K. Williams
"A vivid, astonishing, blood-curdling book." -- Stanley Kunitz
"God love her." --Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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- PublisherHOUGHTON MIFFLIN CO@
- Publication date1979
- ISBN 10 039512722X
- ISBN 13 9780395127223
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages112
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