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Author : Anne Sexton
Release : 2000
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 047/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Selected Poems of Anne Sexton by : Anne Sexton
Download or read book Selected Poems of Anne Sexton written by Anne Sexton. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of poems by contemporary American author Anne Sexton, drawn primarily from eight previously published collections.
Author : Anne Sexton
Release : 1962
Genre : Poetry
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Book Synopsis All My Pretty Ones by : Anne Sexton
Download or read book All My Pretty Ones written by Anne Sexton. This book was released on 1962. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gifted poet reveals the poignancy and plaintive charm of common experiences.
Author : Anne Sexton
Release : 2016-04-05
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 35X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Transformations by : Anne Sexton
Download or read book Transformations written by Anne Sexton. This book was released on 2016-04-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Anne Sexton morphs classic fairy tales into dark critiques of the cultural myths underpinning modern society Anne Sexton breathes new life into sixteen age-old Brothers Grimm fairy tales, reimagining them as poems infused with contemporary references, feminist ideals, and morbid humor. Grounded by nods to the ordinary—a witch’s blood “began to boil up/like Coca-Cola” and Snow White’s bodice is “as tight as an Ace bandage”—Sexton brings the stories out of the realm of the fantastical and into the everyday world. Stripping away their magical sheen, she exposes the flawed notions of family, gender, and morality within the stories that continue to pervade our collective psyche. Sexton is especially critical of what follows these tales’ happily-ever-after endings, noting that Cinderella never has to face the mundane struggles of marriage and growing old, such as “diapers and dust,” “telling the same story twice,” or “getting a middle-aged spread,” and that after being awakened Sleeping Beauty would likely be plagued by insomnia, taking “knock-out drops” behind the prince’s back. Deconstructed into vivid, visceral, and often highly amusing poems, these fairy tales reflect themes that have long fascinated Sexton—the claustrophobic anxiety of domestic life, the limited role of women in society, and a psychological strife more dangerous than any wicked witch or poisoned apple.
Author : Diane Middlebrook
Release : 1992-10-27
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 828/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Anne Sexton by : Diane Middlebrook
Download or read book Anne Sexton written by Diane Middlebrook. This book was released on 1992-10-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne Sexton began writing poetry at the age of twenty-nine to keep from killing herself. She held on to language for dear life and somehow -- in spite of alcoholism and the mental illness that ultimately led her to suicide -- managed to create a body of work that won a Pulitzer Prize and that still sings to thousands of readers. This exemplary biography, which was nominated for the National Book Award, provoked controversy for its revelations of infidelity and incest and its use of tapes from Sexton's psychiatric sessions. It reconciles the many Anne Sextons: the 1950s housewife; the abused child who became an abusive mother; the seductress; the suicide who carried "kill-me pills" in her handbag the way other women carry lipstick; and the poet who transmuted confession into lasting art.
Author : Anne Sexton
Release : 2020-11-05
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 782/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Mercies by : Anne Sexton
Download or read book Mercies written by Anne Sexton. This book was released on 2020-11-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ground-breaking work of the poet who paved the way for generations of women writers, in a new selection by her daugher and literary executor, Linda Gray Sexton 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 read around the world, translated into over thirty languages, and in her own country remains a touchstone for poets and readers looking for rawness of perception, vitality of expression, confessional frankness and fiery passion. Yet, incredibly, there has been no new UK edition of her work for decades. In Mercies, readers are provided with a resonant new selection from the writings of this natural phenomenon of a poet.
