To Bedlam and Part Way Back

Literature & Fiction

Anne Sexton

Poetry

Houghton Mifflin Co (Pap)

Preface by Kurt Connegut, Jr. Beware! Keep out of reach of children! These poem-storis are a strange reenactment of seventeen Grimm fairy tales. What is most astonishing about these transformations is that they end up being as wholly personal as Anne Sexton's most intimate poems, coming curiously, for all their story-sound, from as deep a place. C.K. Williams writes: "Her metaphoric strength has never been greater - really funny, among other things, a dark, dark laughter" The tales sh has transormed include "Snow White", "Rumpelstiltskin", "Rapunzel", "The Twelve Dancing Princesses," The Frog Prince," and "Red Riding Hood" They create a wonderful little universe, and sho the poet in a new role, with a voice strangely prophetic. In his preface Kurt Vonnegut ways: "I asked a poet friend one time what it was that poets did, and he thought awhile and then he told me, " They extend the language.: Anne Sexton does a deeper favor for me: she domesticates my terror, examines it ad describes it, teaches it some tricks which willl amuse me, then lets it gallop into my forest once more. Drawings by Barbara Swan

Transformations

Mariner Books

The Awful Rowing Toward God

Bound in the publisher's original quarter cloth and paper covered boards, spine and cover stamped in gilt. Lightly rubbed at the edges and extremities of dust jacket.

Houghton, Mifflin Company

From Wikipedia: Sexton's eighth collection of poetry is entitled The Awful Rowing Toward God. The title came from her meeting with a Roman Catholic priest who, although unwilling to administer last rites, told her "God is in your typewriter." This gave the poet the desire and willpower to continue living and writing. The Awful Rowing Toward God and The Death Notebooks are among her final works and both centre on the theme of dying.

Houghton, Mifflin Co.

45 Mercy Street

The late poet's first posthumous collection combines intense self-exposure and selective description in verse accounts of personal and social experiences and concerns during the last three years of her life

Houghton/Mifflin

The late poet's first posthumous collection combines intense self-exposure and selective description in verse accounts of personal and social experiences and concerns during the last three years of her life

Hardcover, 1978. 101 pgs. Very good with some shelf wear; tiny tear on spine of dust jacket. Small bookstore date notation in pencil on inside cover page. Interior excellent. Different cover.

Words for Dr. Y: Uncollected Poems with Three Stories

United States

Words For Dr. Y is the first collection of Anne Sexton's poetry from which her editorial guidance was totally absent. Contains: 9 poems from 1971 - 1973; The Horoscope Poems: Scorpio, Bad Spider, and Die; Three Stories: The Ghost, Vampire, and The Bat (or To Remember, To Remember).

Words for Dr. Y. : Uncollected Poems by Anne Sexton

A selection from the thousands of letters written by the late poet reveals the inner and outer affects of her life, the reality of her battles with mental illness, and her career as a successful poet

Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

An expression of an extraordinary poet's life story in her own words, this book shows Anne Sexton as she really was in private, as she wrote about herself to family, friends, fellow poets, and students. Anne's daughter Linda Gray Sexton and her close confidant Lois Ames have judiciously chosen from among thousands of letters and provided commentary where necessary. Illustrated throughout with candid photographs and memorabilia, the letters -- brilliant, lyrical, caustic, passionate, angry -- are a consistently revealing index to Anne Sexton's quixotic and exuberant personality.

Ecco

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Books by Anne Sexton

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To Bedlam and Part Way Back

Transformations

The Awful Rowing Toward God

The Awful Rowing Toward God

45 Mercy Street

45 Mercy Street

Words for Dr. Y: Uncollected Poems with Three Stories

Words for Dr. Y. : Uncollected Poems by Anne Sexton

Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters