Mercies
Selected Poems
$37.26
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
27 August 2020
Summary
The ground-breaking work of the poet who paved the way for generations of women writers, in a new selection by her daughter 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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241460399 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241460395 |
| Author: | Anne Sexton |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 27 August 2020 |
| Weight: | 206g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 18mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Do you know Anne Sexton? I worship her
Do you know Anne Sexton? I worship her – Madonna
Anne Sexton domesticates my terror, examines it and describes it, teaches it some tricks which will amuse me, then lets it gallop wild in my forest once more … God love her – Kurt Vonnegut
In Sexton’s New England … adultery looms as the next horizon of sexual destiny, once marriage and childbirth have ripened a woman’s body and mapped her pleasure centers … No woman had published such poems in English for centuries – Diane Wood Middlebrook
About The Author
Anne Sexton
Anne Sexton was born in Newton, Massachusetts in 1928. Her first mental breakdown with post-partum depression occurred after the birth of her elder daughter in 1953; repeated hospitalizations followed throughout her life. Her therapist encouraged her to write, and in 1957 she joined poetry workshops in Boston which would bring her into the orbit of Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath. Her books include To Bedlam and Part Way Back (1960), the Pulitzer Prize-winning Live or Die (1966), Love Poems (1969), The Death Notebooks (1974) and three posthumous volumes, including The Awful Rowing Toward God (1975). She committed suicide in October 1974 at the age of 45.
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