Name: anne sexton,a self-portrait in letters
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Author: Anne Sexton
ISBN: 9780618492428

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Anne Sexton

Lois Ames

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin

Language

English

Pages

433

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.6x14x3.3 cm

Weight

0.59 kg.

ISBN

0618492429

ISBN13

9780618492428

Synopsis "anne sexton,a self-portrait in letters"

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 Anne Sexton's quixotic and exuberant personality.

Anne Sexton

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Anne Sexton (1928-1974), one of the most celebrated American poets of the 20th century from her beginnings as a writer, published her first poems in prestigious magazines such as The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, and Saturday Review, and attended John Holmes' literary workshop, where she met Maxine Kumin, with whom she would remain inseparable until the end of her days and with whom she co-wrote four children's books. In another workshop, she came into contact with Sylvia Plath and later directed her own writing workshops at various universities. A figure surrounded by controversy due to her numerous diagnoses of mental illness and her subsequent suicide, she made the female experience the central theme of her poetic work and came to be considered one of the most prominent figures of confessional poetry. During her literary career, she published numerous poetry collections, among which stand out: To the Asylum and Almost Back, Live or Die (for which she won the Pulitzer Prize), Love Poems, Transformations, and The Book of Madness.

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