Selected Poems of Anne Sexton - Hardcover

Sexton, Anne; Middlebrook, Diane Wood; George, Diana Hume

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395445957 ISBN 13: 9780395445952

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1988

Synopsis

Poems deal with divorce, marriage, parenthood, animals, dreams, music, religion, death, love, and the imagination

About this title

Review:

"The editors of this Selected Poems have carefully chipped away at the block of marble and revealed the true figure of Sexton's work: haunted, plaintive, raucous, as often exuberantly witty as it is afflicted." -- J. D. McClatchy "This selected edition of Sexton's poems, arranged chronologically and enhanced by an insightful introduction, will make her work accessible not only to students but to readers everywhere." -- Maxine Kumin

About the Author:

Anne Sexton was born Anne Gray Harvey in Massachusetts in 1928. After the birth of her second daughter, Anne suffered a suicidal breakdown. Self-hatred led to repeated hospitalisations and in 1974, aged forty-five, she committed suicide.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0395445957
• ISBN 13: 9780395445952
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 266