Selected Poems of Anne Sexton, Love Poems, Anne Sexton, a Biography - Softcover

Sexton, Anne, 2 Trade Paperbacks, Middlebrook

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0395477824 ISBN 13: 9780395477823

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 1988

Synopsis

With its simple, forceful imagery, Anne Sexton's poetry is not only remarkably powerful but also very accessible. The subjects she writes about--sex, mental breakdown, the search for spiritual meaning, the dark side of suburban life--speak to American readers today as eloquently as they did during her lifetime.

About this title

About the Author

Anne Sexton (1928-1974), the author of ten collections of poems, received the Pulitzer Prize in 1967.

From Library Journal

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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Edition details

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0395477824
• ISBN 13: 9780395477823
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 266