TO BEDLAM AND PART WAY BACK

Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1960

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Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.johnson rare books & archives, ABAA

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The poet Anne Sexton (1928-74) struggled with depression for much of her adult life, which culminated in her suicide at age 46. Her first book, To Bedlam and Part Way Back, recounts, as James Dickey observed, the experiences "of madness and near-madness, of the pathetic, well-meaning, necessarily tentative and perilous attempts at cure, and of the patient's slow coming back into the human associations and responsibilities which the old, previous self still demands." It includes the poem "Her Kind," with the haunting lines "A woman like that is not ashamed to die. I have been her kind." Octavo: x, 67 pp. Original gray paper-covered boards over a black cloth spine with silver-stamped titles. Light bump to the spine heel. Some general rubbing to the dust jacket, with a crease to the front flap; otherwise very good.

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Title
TO BEDLAM AND PART WAY BACK
Author
Sexton, Anne
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston
Publication year
1960
Condition
Very good
Dust jacket
Very Good
Binding
Hardcover
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Established in 1981, johnson rare books & archives is located at The Book Shop in downtown Covina, about 20 miles east of Los Angeles. The shop is open six days a week and houses an inventory of some 30,000 titles, ranging from the general second-hand to the truly antiquarian.

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