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The Complete Poems (Cambridge Editions) | 
| Author: Anne Sexton
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (P)
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 865265
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 622
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.8 x 1.3
ISBN: 0395329353
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780395329351
ASIN: 0395329353
Publication Date: September 1982
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She drew her poems from a great depth in herself, and they continue to stir us...Her voice remains a distinctive one in American poetry of the past half century. -- J.D. McClatchy
Product Description
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.
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 this is what art looks like December 22, 2007
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
An old friend gave me this book about 6 or 7 years ago and I immediately fell in love with it. Anne Sexton is absolutely my favorite poetess. Her writings are pure art.
Amazingly deep, personal, Anne July 16, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Of course, no words can justify this book, you really have to read it for yourself. Sometimes I find myself sitting around for hours just going through it--it seriously feels like dreaming. A lot of times they're nightmares, but they're always passionate. The feelings expressed can be found in all of us in some form, but if you can relate to Anne's struggle on a personal level, they'll speak even louder to you.
 She is so depressing May 12, 2007
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
I love Anne Sexton, but really, one can only take her a little at a time. Having read her bio and her daughters book, "To Mercy Street and Back" I had to have her complete works. Here is a woman who is stark raving mad, incests her daughter, and is still a great writer, but even my dark side says "too much". I can't read too much at a time. Still, i'm glad to have it in my library. It is amazint too me how much medication her doctors kept her on, on had an affair with her, one sold her tapes, supposedly confidential information. I feel a great deal of empathy and pity for this woman, oh she also had a husband who liked to use her as a punching bag and a mother in law that took over her household she lived with a bunch of enablers, without which she might never have become a writer, but maybe would have had a chance at life. A true American tragedy of a woman abused in every way, but still a genius.
"Originality is important..." May 14, 2006
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
The Complete Poems by gifted poet Anne Sexton is my favorite book of poetry. Sexton suffered from repeated periods of depression and attempted suicides, unfortantely this talented woman could not overcome her inner-demons, she took her life in 1974. The first poem I ever read by Sexton was The Abortion: "Somebody who should have been born is gone/just as the earth puckered its mouth/each bud puffing out from its knot/I changed my shoes and then drove south." Some of the other poems I love are The Wifebeater, Mr. Mine, In the Deep Museum, Killing the Spring, Man and Wife, and Imitations of Drowning. I have always enjoyed her most personal poems such as The Double Image: "I lived like an angry guest/like a partly mended thing/an outgrown child/I remember my mother did her best/she took me to Boston and had my hair restyled/your smile is like your mother's the artist said/I didn't seem to care/I had my portrait done instead." The first poem in the book is You, Doctor Martin: "Your business is people/you call at the madhouse/an oracular eye in our nest/out in the hall the intercom pages you/you twist in the pull of the foxy children who fall like floods of life in frost." Sexton also wrote beautiful love poems like the poem Eighteen Days Without You: "Swift boomerang, come get!/I am delicate/you've been gone/the losing has hurt me some, yet I must bend for you/see me arch, I'm turned on/my eyes are lawn-colored, my hair brunette." There are so many fabulous and haunting poems by Sexton, I highly recommend buying this collection, she was a real writer.
You Wanna Know About Old School Confessional Poetry? February 28, 2006
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
In a nutshell, Anne Sexton is the second coming of Christ...and this is coming from an Atheist...if you dig Kim Addonizio, Maxine Kumin, or Denise Duhamel, pick up this definitive collection of Sexton's work and be prepared to be floored by one of the originators of the confessional school. Long before feminist revisionist mythmaking was a catch-phrase, Sexton was turning the Brothers Grimm on their heads...enjoy.
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