The Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
Anne Sexton(Author)
Virago Press Ltd
Published on 31. October 1991
Book
Paperback/Softback
296 pages
978-1-85381-416-7 (ISBN)
Description
Anne Sexton's language was simple, domestic; her imagery arresting; her subject matter urgent, shocking and exciting. She wrote about mental breakdown, sex, addiction, abortion - the other side of ordinary life. 'Madness' and its cultural meanings were central to her art as to her life; yet it is a bright, lucid and sane voice that resonates. Sexton's poems are accessible, moving and intensely honest. Her poems are brought together here in a diverse and powerful anthology spanning fifteen years of uninhibited writing.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Little, Brown Book Group
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 126 mm
Weight
232 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85381-416-7 (9781853814167)
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Anne Sexton was born Anne Gray Harvey in Massachusetts in 1928. After the birth of her second daughter, Anne suffered a suicidal breakdown. Self-hatred led to repeated hospitalisations and in 1974, aged forty-five, she committed suicide.