Anne Sexton
Paperback | Pages: 656 pages Rating: 4.28 | 14123 Users | 351 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Complete Poems |
| Author | : | Anne Sexton |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 656 pages |
| Published | : | April 28th 1999 by Mariner Books (first published September 30th 1981) |
| Categories | : | Poetry. Classics |
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From the self-conscious and contemplative poems of To Bedlam and Part Way Back to the strange and surreal verse of The Awful Rowing Toward God, Anne Sexton's work encompasses a wide range of styles: few other American poets have written so many kinds of poems, on such different subjects, while successfully capturing the attention of the public. Often interested in personal relationships, as well as the bond between poet and audience, Sexton's poems consistently dazzle readers with inventive images, swift pacing, and simple but powerful language. So, too, does her work typically take on taboo topics and experiences belonging to women. But her specific subject matter shifts from collection to collection. All My Pretty Ones deals with the death of parents and entering middle age; Love Poems domestic misery and unsustainable affairs; Transformations fairytales and patriarchal oppression; The Death Notebooks celebrity and suicide. Different as the collections might be from each other, though, there is a distinct stylistic progression amongst them, making The Complete Poems best read in order.Point Books In Pursuance Of The Complete Poems
| Original Title: | The Complete Poems: Anne Sexton |
| ISBN: | 0395957761 (ISBN13: 9780395957769) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 4.28 From 14123 Users | 351 ReviewsCritique Based On Books The Complete Poems
I've been reading Anne Sexton's poems for months now. For those who don't like poetry, her work could change your mind."Someone once said that we have art in order not to die of the truth, a dictum we might neatly apply to Sexton's perspectives. To Hayden Carruth, the poems "raise the never-solved problem of what literature really is, where you draw the line between art and documentary." -- Maxine Kumin in her Foreword Sexton's poetry transcends the shamelessly personal because, unlike Plath, she did not disguise herself behind metaphors; not in the least as cerebrally as Plath, anyway. And in doing so, she
Sexton is a bit of an obsession of mine--I've been reading her poetry since I was a teenager, and *almost* wrote my dissertation on her! She's often compared to Sylvia Plath (who was her friend), but her poetry is very different. Where Plath is something of an intellectual poet and a meticulous craftsman, Sexton is more dramatic and playful; she doesn't have the same control of language as Plath, but she is a little more accessible. Plath was an introvert, but Sexton loved to perform for an
From the self-conscious and contemplative poems of To Bedlam and Part Way Back to the strange and surreal verse of The Awful Rowing Toward God, Anne Sexton's work encompasses a wide range of styles: few other American poets have written so many kinds of poems, on such different subjects, while successfully capturing the attention of the public. Often interested in personal relationships, as well as the bond between poet and audience, Sexton's poems consistently dazzle readers with inventive
Her poetry isn't always dark, it has its childlike fairy tale moments- what is it about those tormented that we love to read? Honestly, it's the similar feelings and hungers we all have moment to moment. She was open and had no reservation about letting readers in. Her poems were about so many different things from death, to love and sex. They are timeless and meaningful and reading them induce the weirdest dreams I have had, admittedly I can say the same when I read Plath or Anais Nin's
What can I say about Anne Sexton? She's incomparable--perhaps wholly unique in the history of women's poetry. I'd like to review each of her books separately at some point, which is why I've kept this on my shelf for so long, even though I finished rereading the entire brick in March. As so many comment, the poetry is sometimes hit or miss--particularly in her last two or three collections. But far more often (which critics conveniently forget), she's absolutely on, absolutely raw, absolutely a
A Note on the Text, by Linda Gray SextonHow It Was: Maxine Kumin on Anne Sexton--To Bedlam and Part Way Back (1960)--All My Pretty Ones (1962)--Live or Die (1966)--Love Poems (1969)--Transformations (1971)--The Book of Folly (1972)--The Death Notebooks (1974)--The Awful Rowing Toward God (1975) Posthumously Published Work Editor's Note--Mercy Street (1976)Editor's Note--Words for Dr. Y. (1978)Last Poems--Admonitions to a Special Person--In Excelsis--Uses--As It Was Written--Lessons in Hunger
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