Selected Poems of Anne Sexton - Hardcover

Sexton, Anne; Middlebrook, Diane Wood; George, Diana Hume

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395445957 ISBN 13: 9780395445952

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1988

Synopsis

Poems deal with divorce, marriage, parenthood, animals, dreams, music, religion, death, love, and the imagination

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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

The Abortion
The Addict
All My Pretty Ones
And One For My Dame
Angel Of Beach Houses ...
Angel Of Blizzards ...
Angel Of Flight ...
Angel Of Hope ...
The Author Of The Jesus Papers Speaks
Baby
The Balance Wheel
The Ballad Of The Lonely Masturbator
Bedbugs
The Black Art
The Breast
Briar Rose (sleeping Beauty)
Clothes
The Consecrating Mother
Consorting With Angels
Cripples And Other Stories
The Death Of The Fathers: 2. How We Danced
The Death Of The Fathers: 3. The Boat
The Death Of The Fathers: 4. Santa
The Division Of Parts
Divorce, Thy Name Is Woman
The Double Image
Dreaming The Breasts
Dreams
The Dy-dee Doll
The Earth
Eighteen Days Without You, Sels.
Eighth Psalm
Elizabeth Gone
February 21st
February 3rd
First Psalm
Flee On Your Donkey
Food
For Eleanor Boylan Talking With God
For John, Who Begs Me Not To Enquire Further
For Mr. Death Who Stands With His Door Open
For My Lover, Returning To His Wife
For The Year Of The Insane
The Fortress
Fourth Psalm
Frenzy
The Frog Prince
The Fury Of Beautiful Bones
The Fury Of Cocks
The Fury Of Cooks
The Fury Of Guitars ...
The Fury Of Sunrises
The Fury Of Sunsets
The God-monger
Her Kind
Hornet
Housewife
I Called Him Comfort, Fr. Letters To Dr. Y
I Remember
I'm Dreaming The My Lai Soldier..., Fr. Letters To Dr. Y
In Celebration Of My Uterus
In Excelsis
In The Beach House
In The Deep Museum
It Is A Spring Afternoon
It's Music You've Never Heard, Fr. Letters To Dr. Y
January 24th
Jesus Asleep
Jesus Awake
Jesus Cooks
Jesus Dies
Jesus Raises Up The Harlot
Jesus Suckles
Jesus Summons Forth
Jesus Unborn
Jesus, The Actor, Plays The Holy Ghost
Just Once
Kind Sir: These Woods
Lament
The Legend Of The One-eyed Man
Letter Written On A Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound
Little Girl, My String Bean, My Lovely Woman
Live
The Lost Ingredient
Loving The Killer
Lullaby
Madonna
Max
Menstruation At Forty
The Money Swing
The Moss Of His Skin
Mother And Daughter
Mr. Mine
Music Swims Back To Me
My Friend, My Friend
An Obsessive Combination Of Ontological Inscape ...
Old
Old Dwarf Heart
One-eye, Two-eyes, Three-eyes
The Operation
Oysters
Pain For A Daughter
The Papa And Mama Dance
Protestant Easter
Rapunzel
Riding The Elevator Into The Sky
Ringing The Bells
Rowing
The Rowing Endeth
Said The Poet To The Analyst
Self In 1958
Seven Times Five [ - Widowhood]
The Silence
Slime
Small Wire
Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs
Some Foreign Letters
Somewhere In Africa
Song For A Lady
Star-nosed Mole
The Starry Night
Tenth Psalm
To A Friend Whose Work Has Come To Triumph
The Truth The Dead Know
Unknown Girl In The Maternity Ward
Us
Walking In Paris
Wanting To Die
Whale
What Has It Come To, Dr. Y, Fr. Letters To Dr. Y
What's That
When Man Enters Woman
Where It Was At Back Then
With Mercy For The Greedy
You All Know The Story Of The Other Woman
You, Doctor Martin
Young
Your Face On The Dog's Neck
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Edition details

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0395445957
• ISBN 13: 9780395445952
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 266