Transformations

Sexton, Anne

ISBN 10: 061808343X / ISBN 13: 9780618083435

Published by Ecco, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Transformations
• Publisher: Ecco
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 061808343X
• ISBN 13: 9780618083435
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

The poems collected in this astonishing volume are reenactments, parodies, what Anne Sexton described as transformations, of seventeen Grimm fairy tales. Includes a Foreword by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr and Drawings by Barbara Swan.

Featuring:

• "Snow White"
• "Rumpelstiltskin"
• "Rapunzel"
• "The Twelve Dancing Princesses"
• "The Frog Prince"
• "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

"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 and describes it, teaches it some tricks which will amuse me, then lets it gallop into my forest once more." — from the foreword by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

About the Authors

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

Kurt Vonnegut was a master of contemporary American Literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America's attention in The Siren's of Titan in 1959 and established him as "a true artist" with Cat's Cradle in 1963. He was, as Graham Greene has declared, "one of the best living American writers."