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Poems deal with divorce, marriage, parenthood, animals, dreams, music, religion, death, love, and the imagination
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Sexton claimed that poetry kept her alive through periods of suicidal self-hatred, and indeed her poetry started as therapy, a means suggested by her psychiatrist of documenting the unspeakable. This volume contains selections, many of them familiar, from her eight books. Despite professional success, she continued to suffer, but her work does more than document the pain that finally led to alcohol addiction and suicide. Labeled confessional, she preferred to be called a storyteller, often adopting a persona: "Like Oedipus I am losing my sight./Like Judas I have done my wrong." Much of the early poetry was workshop-influenced, but Sexton's music as well as her intensity and good ear ultimately come through. Rosaly De Maios Roffman, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Indiana
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- PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0395445957
- ISBN 13 9780395445952
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages266
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