The Complete Poems

The Complete Poems: Anne Sexton comprises the poet's ten volumes of verse, including the Pulitzer Prize-winner Live or Die, as well as seven poems from her last years.

From the joy and anguish of her own experience, Sexton fashioned poems that told truths about the inner lives of men and women.

"Women poets in particular owe a debt to Anne Sexton, who broke new ground, shattered taboos, and endured a barrage of attacks along the way because of the flamboyance of her subject matter...Sexton has earned her place in the canon."—from the Foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Maxine Kumin

Includes these poems in addition to the rest of her oeuvre:

• "The Truth the Dead Know"
• "Her Kind"
• "Wanting to Die"
• "All My Pretty Ones"
• "Cinderella"
• "For God While Sleeping"
• "Courage"
• "You, Doctor Martin"
• "The Addict"

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

MAXINE KUMIN (1925-2014) won a Pulitzer Prize and Robert Frost Medal among other honors for her poetry. Her books include The Pawnbroker's Daughter: A Memoir and The Long Marriage: Poems.