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Book Synopsis Selected Poems of Anne Sexton by : Anne Sexton
Download or read book Selected Poems of Anne Sexton written by Anne Sexton and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2000 with total page 316 pages. 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.
Download or read book Transformations written by Anne Sexton and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 125 pages. 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.
Download or read book Anne Sexton written by Diane Middlebrook and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1992-10-27 with total page 530 pages. 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.
Download or read book All My Pretty Ones written by Anne Sexton and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gifted poet reveals the poignancy and plaintive charm of common experiences.
Download or read book Mercies written by Anne Sexton and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2020-11-05 with total page 272 pages. 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.
Download or read book Anne Sexton written by Arthur Furst and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2001-10-12 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Striking photos of the alluring, defiant, and mesmerizing poet Anne Sexton-many published for the first time in this exclusive collection-taken during the last summer of her life, before her suicide on October 4, 1974 According to those who knew her best, Anne Sexton was always preparing for her death, almost like an Egyptian queen constructing her pyramid. She wanted to create the most poignant version of her life story, which would best serve as her monument after she was gone. She left behind a study filled with her papers, writings, and photographs. On a photo assignment from Houghton Mifflin, Arthur Furst first met Anne Sexton in April 1974, just two months after she was revived (against her wishes) from a suicide attempt. Welcoming him into her life as a friend, Sexton entrusted Arthur Furst to capture her image over the last months of her life. Undoubtedly, she intended his photographs to become part of her legacy. Anne Sexton: The Last Summer beautifully juxtaposes Furst's exclusive photos with letters and unpublished drafts of Sexton's poems written during the last months of her life, as well as previously unpublished letters to her daughters, giving unprecedented insight into the life of this legendary poet.
Book Synopsis Searching for Mercy Street by : Linda Gray Sexton
Download or read book Searching for Mercy Street written by Linda Gray Sexton and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2011-04-10 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Notable Book: A “beautifully written” memoir by the daughter of the brilliant, troubled poet (Detroit Free Press). This is an honest, unsparing account of the anguish and fierce love that bound a difficult mother and the daughter she left behind. Linda Sexton was twenty–one when her mother killed herself, and now she looks back, remembers, and tries to come to terms with her mother’s life. Growing up with Anne Sexton was a wild mixture of suicidal depression and manic happiness, inappropriate behavior and midnight trips to the psychiatric ward. Anne taught Linda how to write, how to see, how to imagine—and only Linda could have written a book that captures so vividly the intimate details and lingering emotions of their life together. Searching for Mercy Street speaks to everyone who admires Anne Sexton and to every daughter or son who knows the pain of an imperfect childhood. “Sexton forcefully communicates the fear, repulsion, neediness, and sorrow that filled her childhood, as well as the agony of her own mental breakdown and her terror of becoming like her mother, in lucid and vivid prose.” —The Boston Globe “A candid, often painful depiction of a daughter’s struggles to come to terms with her powerful and emotionally troubled mother.” —The New York Times
Download or read book Anne Sexton written by Steven E. Colburn and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains some of the best and most representative writing about Sexton's life and work
Book Synopsis Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz by : Gail Crowther
Download or read book Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz written by Gail Crowther and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A dual biography of poets, friends, and rivals Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton"--
Book Synopsis The Awful Rowing Toward God by : Anne Sexton
Download or read book The Awful Rowing Toward God written by Anne Sexton and published by Boston : Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 1975 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this powerful new collection, one of our most dazzlingly inventive and prolific poets tackles a universal theme: the agonizing search for God that is part and parcel of the livse of all of us. As always, Anne Sexton's latest work derives from intense personal experience. She explores the dilemmas and triumphs, and the agony and the peace of her highly unorthodox faith, sharing all her findings with her readers as the quest progresses. Anne Sexton's poetry speaks to our most passionate yearnings for love and our deepest fears of evil and death. The uncompromising honesty and vividness of "The Awful Rowing Toward God" confirms her stature as one of the most compelling voices of our time. -- From publisher's description.
Book Synopsis The Death Notebooks by : Anne Sexton
Download or read book The Death Notebooks written by Anne Sexton and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Words for Dr. Y. written by Anne Sexton and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Sexton's poems containing most of her important work that had not been published at the time of her death.
Book Synopsis Anne Sexton by : Caroline King Barnard Hall
Download or read book Anne Sexton written by Caroline King Barnard Hall and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1989 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Anne Sexton.
Book Synopsis Anne Sexton's Confessional Poetics by : Jo Gill
Download or read book Anne Sexton's Confessional Poetics written by Jo Gill and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given the amount of scholarship on twentieth-century poetry, there has been remarkably little published about Anne Sexton, even though her work is considered to be as important as that of such contemporaries as Sylvia Plath and W. H. Auden. By offering new and provocative readings of her entire oeuvre, Jo Gill provides a long overdue critical appreciation of Anne Sexton and presents a radical rethinking of the confessional mode of poetry and a recuperation of Sexton's place in it. Gill makes substantial use of Sexton's archive of unpublished diaries, drafts, correspondence, lectures, interviews, stage readings, and book annotations, as well as a little-known television documentary on Sexton. She also uses techniques that have not been previously applied to Sexton's poetry to increase our understanding of the poet's life and work. Employing new--principally poststructuralist--literary theories and critical practices, Gill offers new readings of Sexton's complex and ambitious poems. She discusses the diversity and richness of Sexton's writing across her career, shows the relevance of the often-ignored later poems, and places Sexton's work in its specific historical, political, and ideological contexts.
Book Synopsis The Heart of Anne Sexton's Poetry by : Anne Sexton
Download or read book The Heart of Anne Sexton's Poetry written by Anne Sexton and published by . This book was released on 1977-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Heart of Anne Sexton's Poetry: All my pretty ones (c1962). The truth the dead know ; All my pretty ones ; Young ; Lament ; To a friend whose work has come to triumph ; The starry night ; Old dwarf heart ; I remember ; The operation ; A curse against elegies ; The abortion ; With mercy for the greedy ; For god while sleeping ; In the deep museum ; Ghosts ; The fortress ; Old ; The hangman ; Woman with girdle ; The house ; Water ; Wallflower ; Housewife ; Doors, doors, doors ; Letter written on a ferry while crossing ; Long Island Sound ; From the garden ; Love song for K. Owyne ; Flight ; For Eleanor Boylan talking with god ; the black art ; Letter written during a January northeaster by : Anne Sexton
Download or read book The Heart of Anne Sexton's Poetry: All my pretty ones (c1962). The truth the dead know ; All my pretty ones ; Young ; Lament ; To a friend whose work has come to triumph ; The starry night ; Old dwarf heart ; I remember ; The operation ; A curse against elegies ; The abortion ; With mercy for the greedy ; For god while sleeping ; In the deep museum ; Ghosts ; The fortress ; Old ; The hangman ; Woman with girdle ; The house ; Water ; Wallflower ; Housewife ; Doors, doors, doors ; Letter written on a ferry while crossing ; Long Island Sound ; From the garden ; Love song for K. Owyne ; Flight ; For Eleanor Boylan talking with god ; the black art ; Letter written during a January northeaster written by Anne Sexton and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis “The” Heart of Anne Sexton's Poetry by : Anne Sexton
Download or read book “The” Heart of Anne Sexton's Poetry written by Anne Sexton and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
