The Selected Poems of Anne Sexton - Softcover

Sexton, Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853814164 ISBN 13: 9781853814167

Publisher: Virago Press Ltd, 1991

Synopsis

Anne Sexton's language was simple, domestic; her imagery arresting; her subject matter urgent, shocking and exciting. She wrote about mental breakdown, sex, addiction, abortion - the other side of ordinary life. 'Madness' and its cultural meanings were central to her art as to her life; yet it is a bright, lucid and sane voice that resonates. Sexton's poems are accessible, moving and intensely honest. Her poems are brought together here in a diverse and powerful anthology spanning fifteen years of uninhibited writing.

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: Virago Press Ltd
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 1853814164
• ISBN 13: 9781853814167
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296
• Editor: Middlebrook Diane Wood, George Diana Hume