Love Poems - Softcover
Collection of poems celebrating love and sensuality. The speaker dwells with husband and children in an affluent New England town just after the death of JFK.
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About the Author:
Anne Sexton (1928-1974), the author of ten collections of poems, received the Pulitzer Prize in 1967.
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"The speaker of Sexton's poems dwells with husband and
children in affluent, white Protestant America just
after the death of JFK . . . More than a century
earlier, Hawthorne had created in The Scarlet Letter a
sexual female protagonist, Hester Prynne -- to exhibit
her leading a life of disgrace at the margins of the
town because of her sin of adultery. In Sexton's New
England the margins of town have been transformed into
suburbia, and adultery looms as the next horizon of
sexual destiny, once marriage and childbirth have
ripened a woman's body and mapped her pleasure
centers. In 1969 this was new; no woman had published
such poems in English for centuries." -- from the
foreword by Diane Wood Middlebrook
children in affluent, white Protestant America just
after the death of JFK . . . More than a century
earlier, Hawthorne had created in The Scarlet Letter a
sexual female protagonist, Hester Prynne -- to exhibit
her leading a life of disgrace at the margins of the
town because of her sin of adultery. In Sexton's New
England the margins of town have been transformed into
suburbia, and adultery looms as the next horizon of
sexual destiny, once marriage and childbirth have
ripened a woman's body and mapped her pleasure
centers. In 1969 this was new; no woman had published
such poems in English for centuries." -- from the
foreword by Diane Wood Middlebrook
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- PublisherHoughton Mifflin
- Publication date1969
- ISBN 10 019211283X
- ISBN 13 9780192112835
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages67
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