Anne Sexton Telling the Tale (Under Discussion)

Steven E. Colburn

ISBN 10: 0472063790 / ISBN 13: 9780472063796

Published by University of Michigan Press November 1, 1988, Ann Arbor, Mi, 1988

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Anne Sexton: Telling the Tale (Under Discussion)Everything you wanted know about Anne Sexton's writing!!Edited by Steven E ColburnTable of Contents:Anne Sexton : a chronology / Doris J Scott --Becoming Anne Sexton / Diane Wood Middlebrook --Reminiscence delivered at memorial service for Anne Sexton in Marsh Chapel, Boston University / Maxine Kumin --Anne Sexton / Robert Lowell --Poets and friends / Kathleen Spivack --A reminiscence / Barbara Swan --A friendship remembered / Maxine Kumin --Anne Sexton : light up the cave / Denise Levertov --Review of To bedlam and part way back / James Dickey --Anne Sexton and confessional poetry / ML Rosenthal --From "The poetry of Anne Sexton" / Beverly Fields --Redeeming words / Kay Ellen Capo --Anne Sexton : the voice of illness / Gary Blankenburg --Review of All my pretty ones / James Dickey --Review of All my pretty ones / Cecil Hemley --Anne Sexton / Ralph J Mills, Jr --The witch's life : confession and control in the early poetry of Anne Sexton / Jeanne H Kammer --Anne Sexton's "The abortion" and confessional poetry / Lawrence Jay Dessner --Review of Live or die / Charles Gullans --Strong stuff / Philip Legler --Live or die : the achievement of Anne Sexton / Robert Boyers --Plath and Sexton / Jon Rosenblatt --The achievement of Anne Sexton / Greg Johnson --From "Anne Sexton's suicide poems" / Diana Hume George --Anne Sexton, her kind mix poetry with music / Eugene Pool --The poet on stage / Charles Maryan --A woman upon the altar / Walter Kerr --Review of Love poems / William Dickey --The sacrament of confession / Paul Lacey --Walt Whitman and Anne Sexton : a note on the uses of tradition / Myra Stark --Anne Sexton's Love poems : the genre and the differences / William H Shurr --Review of Transformations / Vernon Young --The expanded use of simile in Anne Sexton's Transformations / Brian Gallagher --That story : the changes of Anne Sexton / Alicia Ostriker --The poet in the poem : a phenomenological analysis of Anne Sexton's "Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty)" / Cynthia A Miller [Cynthia M Antonelli] --Shattered glass / Ben Howard --"The awful babble of that calling" / Joan Nucifora --The questing self / Ruth Evelyn Quebe --Anne Sexton / Karl Malkoff --"The excitable gift" : the poetry of Anne Sexton / Suzanne Juhasz --From "The nursing mother and feminine metaphysics" / Stephanie Demetrakopoulos --Anne Sexton's rowing toward God / Steven Gould Axelrod --Sexton's The awful rowing toward God / Maxine Kumin --Anne Sexton : demystifier or mystic? / Carole Ferrier --Inventory of loss / Kate Green --The hungry beast rowing toward God : Anne Sexton's late religious poetry / Kathleen L Nichols --The woman of private (but published) hungers / Rosemary Johnson --The self in the poetry of Anne Sexton : the religious quest / Katherine F McSpadden --How we danced : Anne Sexton on fathers and daughters / Diana Hume George --Malevolent flippancy / Helen Vendler --Poet of weird abundance / Diane Wood Middlebrook 481 pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Anne Sexton Telling the Tale (Under Discussion)
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press November 1, 1988, Ann Arbor, Mi
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0472063790
• ISBN 13: 9780472063796
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First edition.
• Condition: Very Good
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Synopsis

Contains some of the best and most representative writing about Sexton's life and work