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The Complete Poems

by Anne Sexton

ISBN13: 9780395957769
ISBN10: 0395957761
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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 Sexton's ten volumes of verse, including the Pulitzer Prize-winner Live or Die, as well as seven poems form her last years.

About the Author

Maxine Kumin is the author of fifteen books of poetry, four novels,five collections of essays, short stories, and a memoir, and twentychildren's books. Her book of poetry Up Country won the PulitzerPrize in 1973. She lives in New Hampshire.Anne Sexton (1928-1974), the author of ten collections of poems, received the Pulitzer Prize in 1967.

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: crowyhead, December 6, 2007 (view all comments by crowyhead)
This took me quite a while to get through, although not quite as long as I thought it would. Sexton's poems are raw, immediate, and at times make for painful reading. Also, because they are so confessional and autobiographical, there are times when one feels as those Sexton is speaking in pointed code that will only be understood by those closest to her. Overall, it's an impressive body of work, and my copy of this book is now bristling with slips of paper marking poems I want to return to later.
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ISBN:: 9780395957769
Foreword:: Kumin, Maxine
Author:: Kumin, Maxine
Author:: Sex
Author:: ton, Anne
Author:: Sexton, Anne
Publisher:: Mariner Books
Location:: Boston :
Subject:: American
Subject:: American - General
Subject:: Poetry (poetic works by one author)
Subject:: Sexton, anne, 1928-1974
Subject:: Single Author / American
Edition Description:: Trade paper
Series Volume:: RN-422
Publication Date:: April 1999
Binding:: Paperback
Grade Level:: General/trade
Language:: English
Pages:: 628
Dimensions:: 8.24x5.54x1.57 in. 1.45 lbs.

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