Transformations

These poem-stories are a strange retelling of seventeen Grimms fairy tales, including "Snow White," "Rumpelstiltskin," "Rapunzel," "The Twelve Dancing Princesses," "The Frog Prince," and "Red Riding Hood." Astonishingly, they are as wholly personal as Anne Sexton's most intimate poems. "Her metaphoric strength has never been greater -- really funny, among other things, a dark, dark laughter" (C.K. Williams).

Literature & Fiction

SEXTON, Anne

Poetry

Oxford University Press

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\nWhen 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.\nSexton'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.

Mercies: Selected Poems (Penguin Modern Classics)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Penguin Classics

Paperback 1962 68p. 8.25x5.60x0.30The Poetry of Anne Sexton."The book is a Work of Genius.It Signifies a Moment of Major Importance to American Literature."James Wright.

All My Pretty Ones

Houghton/Mifflin

This book of poems has the cumulative impact of a good novel. It has the richness variety and compactness of true poetry. It is a book to read and remembered. Sexton is an accomplished lyricist. She can combine the straightforwardness of playing on his speech with the saddle with the control, tight formal structure, and brilliantly effective imagery. But she makes her singular claim on our attention by the fact that she has important things to tell us and tells them dramatically.

To Bedlam and Part Way Back

Houghton, Mifflin Company

A collection of poems arranged chronologically to create vivid, autobiographical impressions and images of melancholy

Live or Die

Lyrical expressions of a woman's emotions as she is abandoned and possessed by the men she loves

Love Poems

Brilliantly retells seventeen of Grimms' fairy tales in poetry including Cinderella, Rapunzel, Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, and Sleeping Beauty

The Book of Folly

The author expresses her views on life, personal relationships, and religion in this selection of poetry and prose

The book of folly

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Transformations

Mercies: Selected Poems (Penguin Modern Classics)

All My Pretty Ones

To Bedlam and Part Way Back

Live or Die

Love Poems

Transformations

The book of folly

The Book of Folly

The book of folly