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Anne Sexton
The complete poems
by Anne Sexton
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25 editions published between 1981 and 2007 in English and held by 2,438 WorldCat member libraries worldwide 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
Transformations
by Anne Sexton
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14 editions published between 1971 and 2001 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,681 WorldCat member libraries worldwide "...retelling many of the Grimms' fairy tales in poetry"--P.ix
The awful rowing toward God
by Anne Sexton
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13 editions published between 1975 and 1977 in English and held by 1,645 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Love poems
by Anne Sexton
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21 editions published between 1967 and 1999 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,495 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A collection of twenty-five poems originally published in 1967, in which the author explores the topic of adultery as experienced by an affluent, white Protestant wife
Selected poems of Anne Sexton
by Anne Sexton
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14 editions published between 1988 and 1991 in English and held by 1,392 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A selection of poems by contemporary American author Anne Sexton, drawn primarily from eight previously published collections
Live or die : [poems] / Anne Sexton
by Anne Sexton
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22 editions published between 1966 and 1967 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,385 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The book of folly
by Anne Sexton
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19 editions published between 1972 and 1974 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,189 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Anne Sexton was an American poet from Weston, Massachusetts, known for her highly personal, confessional verse. She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967. Themes of her poetry include her suicidal tendencies, her depression, and her relationships with her husband and children
45 Mercy Street
by Anne Sexton
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14 editions published between 1976 and 1977 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,189 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
All my pretty ones; [poems]
by Anne Sexton
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14 editions published between 1961 and 1962 in English and Undetermined and held by 983 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
To Bedlam and part way back / Anne Sexton
by Anne Sexton
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13 editions published in 1960 in English and Undetermined and held by 981 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Words for Dr. Y. : uncollected poems with three stories
by Anne Sexton
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7 editions published in 1978 in English and Undetermined and held by 778 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A collection of Sexton's poems containing most of her important work that had not been published at the time of her death
The wizard's tears
by Maxine Kumin
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2 editions published in 1975 in English and held by 449 WorldCat member libraries worldwide The new wizard tries to solve all the town's problems, but carelessness with his own magic tears creates a tragedy instead
Joey and the birthday present
by Maxine Kumin
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9 editions published between 1971 and 2000 in 4 languages and held by 442 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A brown field mouse and a caged, pet white mouse become close summertime friends
Anne Sexton reads her poetry
by Anne Sexton
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16 editions published between 1964 and 1999 in 3 languages and held by 319 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Many of Anne Sexton's poems are at least ostensibly about family history, personal and other intimate experience, mental collapse or sexual encounters
Anne Sexton's confessional poetics
by Jo Gill
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3 editions published in 2007 in English and held by 291 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Poems
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5 editions published in 1968 in English and held by 233 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
An accident of hope : the therapy tapes of Anne Sexton
by Dawn Skorczewski
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4 editions published in 2012 in English and held by 208 WorldCat member libraries worldwide In 1956, Anne Sexton was admitted into a mental hospital for post-partum depression, where she met Dr. Martin Orne, a young psychiatrist who treated her for the next eight years. In that time Sexton would blossom into a world-famous poet, best known for her ""confessional"" poems dealing with personal subjects not often represented in poetry at that time: mental illness, depression, suicide, sex, abortion, women's bodies, and the ordinary lives of mothers and housewives. Orne audiotaped the last three years of her therapy to facilitate her ability to remember their sessions. The final six m
Eggs of things
by Maxine Kumin
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1 edition published in 1963 in English and held by 189 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Buzz and Skippy find eggs of what they think are frogs in a pond on a spring day, but they are surprised later on when they find out what they actually are
Anne Sexton
by Anne Sexton
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8 editions published between 1971 and 2005 in 3 languages and held by 124 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A remarkable series of audiobooks, featuring distinguished twentieth-century American poets reading from their own work
Selected poems
by Anne Sexton
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6 editions published in 1964 in English and held by 115 WorldCat member libraries worldwide more
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American poetry American poetry--Themes, motives American poetry--Women authors Anderson, Sherwood, Authors, American Authorship Berryman, John, Bly, Robert Children of suicide victims Confession in literature Depressed persons Dickinson, Emily, Dos Passos, John, Education--Philosophy Education--Social aspects Families Farrell, James T.--(James Thomas), Faulkner, William, Fitzgerald, F. Scott--(Francis Scott), Giovanni, Nikki Grief in literature Hemingway, Ernest, Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Jesus Christ Literary form Love poetry, American Lowell, Robert, Magic Manners and customs Mental health Moore, Marianne, Mothers and daughters Plath, Sylvia Poetry Poetry--Authorship Poets, American Poets, American--Family relationships Religion and poetry Rich, Adrienne, Roethke, Theodore, Sexton, Anne Sexton, Anne, Sexton, Linda Gray, Snodgrass, W. D.--(William De Witt), Steinbeck, John, Suicide Suicide victims--Family relationships United States Women and literature Women educators
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Alternative Names
Harvey, Anne Gray, 1928-1974
Harvey, Anne Gray 1928-1974 Frueherer Name
Sexton, Anne Gray Harvey 1928-1974
آن سكستون، 1928-1974
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セックストン, アン
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