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.[...]

From the joy and anguish of her own experience, Sexton fashioned poems that told truths about the inner lives of men and women. This book comprises her ten volumes of verse, including the Pulitzer Prize-winner--"Live or Die".[...]

Focusing on Sexton's poems rather than on the life she led, this fresh critique of her work restarts the debate about her poetry 30 years after her death. McGowan argues that Sexton's poetry collections develop a three-way investigation into the possibilities of language to convey an individual's re[...]

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 [...]

OUTSIDE GREETING: All promises are kept. Even happiness. Blank Inside Special Deliveries Notecards by Richard Kehl. Richard Kehl is a wonderful collage artist, and additionally a master of the apt quotation (see our titles Breathing On Your Own, Breathing Together, Love Letter's to the Universe and [...]

Anne Sexton anva?nde poesin som ett medel att skapa balans i ett turbulent liv med tva?ra kast mellan depressiva och maniska tillsta?nd. Beka?nnelsepoet kom hon att kallas, liksom sin samtida kollega Sylvia Plath - att deras magnifika och sja?lv- utla?mnande dikter ocksa? hade en sta?rkande och rena[...]