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Twenty-five poems celebrating the sensual frontiers of Sexton's time.

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This books is a collection of poetry by ANNE SEXTON. ANNE SEXTON (born Anne Gray Harvey, November 9, 1928 - October 4, 1974) was an American poet known for her highly personal, confessional verse. She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967 for her book Live or Die. Her poetry details her long battle with depression, suicidal tendencies, and intimate details from her private life, including relationships with her husband and children, whom i...

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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 r...

MERCY STREET is Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Anne Sexton's only play and incorporates many of the themes that infuse her poetry, the deeply personal, the nature of madness, and the subjectivity of truth. "Anne Sexton, a fine poet with an astounding knack for incorporating the ugly and immediate vocabulary of the pressing workaday world into lyrics that nevertheless remain lyrics, is the author of MERCY STREET ... The play is constructed quite l...

I testi scelti per questa antologia vogliono testimoniare un'esperienza di riscrittura femminile dell'idea che la civiltà occidentale contemporanea ha avuto ed ha della sacralità cristiana. Attraverso questi suoi versi, l'atea Sexton descrive il suo viaggio alla ricerca di Dio, un "tremendo remare" controcorrente che alla fine non approdò mai alla sperata unione mistica trascendente del Padre e della Figlia.

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Bella e dannata, sexy e infantile, sposata e sciupamaschi, indifesa ed esibizionista, plurisuicida con un incrollabile senso dell'umorismo, fragile e carismatica, autodidatta e docente universitaria, atea e religiosa, benestante signora drogata di psicofarmaci, tabagista incallita e alcolizzata: Anne Sexton ha attraversato come una meteora il mondo della poesia americana, esercitando un'influenza su artisti che hanno ritrovato, nei suoi versi,...

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".

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Twenty-five poems celebrating the sensual frontiers of Sexton's time.

Collects the best of Anne Sexton's memoirs and prose reflections on her development as a poet

These poem-stories are a strange retelling of seventeen Grimms fairy tales, including "Snow White, " "Rumpelstiltskin, " "Rapunzel, " "The Twelve Dancing Princesses, " "The Frog Prince, " and "Red Riding Hood." Astonishingly, they are as wholly personal as Anne Sexton's most intimate poems. "Her metaphoric strength has never been greater -- really funny, among other things, a dark, dark laughter" (C.K. Williams).

An expression of an extraordinary poet's life story in her own words, this book shows Anne Sexton as she really was in private, as she wrote about herself to family, friends, fellow poets, and students. Anne's daughter Linda Gray Sexton and her close confidant Lois Ames have judiciously chosen from among thousands of letters and provided commentary where necessary. Illustrated throughout with candid photographs and memorabilia, the letters -- ...

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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.