Anne Sexton

From the joy and anguish of her own experience, Sexton fashioned poems that told truths about the inner lives of men and women. This book comprises Sexton's ten volumes of verse, including the Pulitzer Prize-winner Live or Die, as well as seven poems from her last years.

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 Sexton's quixotic and exuberant personality.

Anne Sexton's first collection of poems.

Anne Sexton da nueva vida a dieciséis cuentos de hadas de los hermanos Grimm, reinventándolos como poemas llenos de humor, referencias contemporáneas e ideales feministas. La poeta saca las historias del reino de lo fantástico y las lleva a lo cotidiano. Despojándolas de su brillo mágico, reinterpreta las nociones de familia, género y moralidad que continúan impregnando nuestra psique colectiva. Sexton es especialmente crítica con los finales «felices para siempre» de estos cuentos. Deconstruidos en poemas vívidos, viscerales y a menudo muy divertidos, estos cuentos de hadas reflejan temas que durante mucho tiempo han fascinado a la autora: la ansiedad claustrofóbica de la vida doméstica y el papel limitado de la mujer en la sociedad. Anne Sexton (Norton, 1928-Boston, 1974). Pasó la mayor parte de su vida en los alrededores de Boston. Vivió en San Francisco y Baltimore. En 1945, estudió en un colegio-pensión, la Rogers Hall School, en Lowell (Massachusetts). Se casó en 1948 con Alfred Muller Sexton II, conocido por el seudónimo «Kayo». Vivieron juntos hasta su divorcio en 1973, y tuvieron dos hijas, Linda Gray Sexton (1953), que más tarde se haría novelista, y Joyce Sexton (1955). Sexton convirtió la experiencia de ser mujer en el tema central de su poesía, y es la figura moderna del poeta confesionalista. Ganó el Pulitzer.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: A gripping poetry collection mapping the thorny journey from madness to hope. Anne Sexton won immediate recognition as a strong voice in American poetry with the 1960 publication of her first book, To Bedlam and Part Way Back, followed by critical acclaim of her second volume, All My Pretty Ones, published in 1962. Live or Die, her third volume, consists of poems written from January 25, 1962 to February, 1966, many of them published in such leading periodicals as The New Yorker, Harper's and Encounter. These poems are arranged chronologically and compose a fierce and intimate autobiography. The poet speaks with total frankness, her imagery and reference brilliant and hard as diamonds. It is impossible for her to be banal. Much of her experience is rendered as nightmarish, but it is significant that the final poem is stunningly affirmative, its title the single command "Live." This collection is a striking body of work by a poet whose experience is intensely female, whose poetry is strong and powerful.

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.

From the joy and anguish of her own experience, Sexton fashioned poems that told truths about the inner lives of men and women. This book comprises Sexton's ten volumes of verse, including the Pulitzer Prize-winner Live or Die, as well as seven poems form her last years.

The fairy tale-based works of the tortured confessional poet, whose raw honesty and wit in the face of psychological pain have touched thousands of readers.

Collection of poems celebrating love and sensuality. The speaker dwells with husband and children in an affluent New England town just after the death of JFK.