Selected Poems Of Anne Sexton

Author : Anne Sexton
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618057047
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selected Poems of Anne Sexton written by Anne Sexton and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2000 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of poems by contemporary American author Anne Sexton, drawn primarily from eight previously published collections.

Author : Anne Sexton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781853814167
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selected Poems of Anne Sexton written by Anne Sexton and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne Sexton could be called the first poet of contemporary women. She spoke of her life as no woman before her had dared to speak, of shocking themes - sex, drug addiction and abortion. This is a selection of her poetry edited by her biographer.

Author : Anne Sexton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789394109759
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 100 Selected Poems, Anne Sexton written by Anne Sexton and published by . This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anne Sexton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All My Pretty Ones written by Anne Sexton and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gifted poet reveals the poignancy and plaintive charm of common experiences.

Author : Anne Sexton
Publisher : Boston : Houghton Mifflin
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Live Or Die written by Anne Sexton and published by Boston : Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 1966 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anne Sexton
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 150403435X
Total Pages : 125 pages
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Download or read book Transformations written by Anne Sexton and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Anne Sexton morphs classic fairy tales into dark critiques of the cultural myths underpinning modern society Anne Sexton breathes new life into sixteen age-old Brothers Grimm fairy tales, reimagining them as poems infused with contemporary references, feminist ideals, and morbid humor. Grounded by nods to the ordinary—a witch’s blood “began to boil up/like Coca-Cola” and Snow White’s bodice is “as tight as an Ace bandage”—Sexton brings the stories out of the realm of the fantastical and into the everyday world. Stripping away their magical sheen, she exposes the flawed notions of family, gender, and morality within the stories that continue to pervade our collective psyche. Sexton is especially critical of what follows these tales’ happily-ever-after endings, noting that Cinderella never has to face the mundane struggles of marriage and growing old, such as “diapers and dust,” “telling the same story twice,” or “getting a middle-aged spread,” and that after being awakened Sleeping Beauty would likely be plagued by insomnia, taking “knock-out drops” behind the prince’s back. Deconstructed into vivid, visceral, and often highly amusing poems, these fairy tales reflect themes that have long fascinated Sexton—the claustrophobic anxiety of domestic life, the limited role of women in society, and a psychological strife more dangerous than any wicked witch or poisoned apple.

Author : Diane Middlebrook
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679741828
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anne Sexton written by Diane Middlebrook and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1992-10-27 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne Sexton began writing poetry at the age of twenty-nine to keep from killing herself. She held on to language for dear life and somehow -- in spite of alcoholism and the mental illness that ultimately led her to suicide -- managed to create a body of work that won a Pulitzer Prize and that still sings to thousands of readers. This exemplary biography, which was nominated for the National Book Award, provoked controversy for its revelations of infidelity and incest and its use of tapes from Sexton's psychiatric sessions. It reconciles the many Anne Sextons: the 1950s housewife; the abused child who became an abusive mother; the seductress; the suicide who carried "kill-me pills" in her handbag the way other women carry lipstick; and the poet who transmuted confession into lasting art.

Author : Anne Sexton
Publisher : Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472063666
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Evil Star written by Anne Sexton and published by Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects the best of Anne Sexton's memoirs and prose reflections on her development as a poet

Author : Anne Sexton
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504034376
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anne Sexton written by Anne Sexton and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing collection of letters from Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Anne Sexton While confessional poet Anne Sexton included details of her life and battle with mental illness in her published work, her letters to family, friends, and fellow poets provide an even more intimate glimpse into her private world. Selected from thousands of letters and edited by Linda Gray Sexton, the poet’s daughter, and Lois Ames, one of her closest friends, this collection exposes Sexton’s inner life from her boarding school days through her years of growing fame and ultimately to the months leading up to her suicide. Correspondence with writers like W. D. Snodgrass, Robert Lowell, and May Swenson reveals Sexton’s growing confidence in her identity as a poet as she discusses her craft, publications, and teaching appointments. Her private letters chart her marriage to Alfred “Kayo” Sexton, from the giddy excitement following their elopement to their eventual divorce; her grief over the death of her parents; her great love for her daughters balanced with her frustration with the endless tasks of being a housewife; and her persistent struggle with depression. Going beyond the angst and neuroses of her poetry, these letters portray the full complexities of the woman behind the art: passionate, anguished, ambitious, and yearning for connection.

Author : Anne Sexton
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141993782
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mercies written by Anne Sexton and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2020-11-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ground-breaking work of the poet who paved the way for generations of women writers, in a new selection by her daugher and literary executor, Linda Gray Sexton When Anne Sexton took her own life in October 1974, she left behind a body of work which had already, in less than two decades of writing, won her the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, established her as one of the foremost voices of her generation, and shocked America by breaking multiple taboos of subject matter, from insanity, depression and addiction to menstruation, adultery and the figure of the witch. Sexton's name is legendary. Her poetry is read around the world, translated into over thirty languages, and in her own country remains a touchstone for poets and readers looking for rawness of perception, vitality of expression, confessional frankness and fiery passion. Yet, incredibly, there has been no new UK edition of her work for decades. In Mercies, readers are provided with a resonant new selection from the writings of this natural phenomenon of a poet.