Selected Poems: Anne Sexton - Softcover

Sexton, Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0618057048 ISBN 13: 9780618057047

Publisher: Ecco, 2000

Synopsis

This selection, which is drawn from Anne Sexton's ten published volumes of poems as well as from representative early and last work, is an ideal introduction to a great American poet.

About this title

About the Author:

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

Linda Gray Sexton (b. 1953) is the daughter of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Anne Sexton. She grew up in Newton, MA. Linda's other published works include Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters and Between Two Worlds: Young Women in Crisis.

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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About this edition

• Publisher: Ecco
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0618057048
• ISBN 13: 9780618057047
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Sexton Linda Gray