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The complete poems
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- ISBN: 0395957761 (pbk.) :
- ISBN: 9780395957769 (pbk.)
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Physical Description:
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xxxiv, 622 pages ; 21 cm - Edition: First Mariner Books edition.
- Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [1999]
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1981. Includes index. "A Mariner book." |
| Formatted Contents Note: | How it was: Maxine Kumin on Anne Sexton -- To bedlam and part way back(1960): You, Doctor Martin -- Kind sir: these woods -- Torn down from glory daily -- Music swims back to me -- Bells -- Elizabeth gone -- Some foreign letters -- Kite -- Said the poet to the analyst -- Venus and the ark -- Her kind -- Exorcists -- Where I live in this honorable house of the laurel tree -- Portrait of an old woman on the college tavern wall -- Farmer's wife -- Funnel -- Expatriates -- For Johnny Pole on the forgotten beach -- Unknown girl in the maternity ward -- What's that -- Moss of his skin -- Hutch -- Noon walk on the asylum lawn -- Ringing the bells -- Lullaby -- Lost ingredient -- Road back -- Waiting head -- Elegy in the classroom -- Story for Rose on the midnight flight to Boston -- For John, who begs me not to enquire further -- Double image -- Division of parts -- All my pretty ones(1962): Truth the dead know -- All my pretty ones -- Young -- Lament -- To a friend whose work has come to triumph -- Starry night -- Old dwarf heart -- I remember -- Operation -- Curse against elegies -- Abortion -- With mercy for the greedy -- For God while sleeping -- In the deep museum -- Ghosts -- Fortress -- Old -- Hangman -- Woman with girdle -- House -- Water -- Wallflower -- Housewife -- Doors, doors, doors -- Letter written on a ferry while crossing Long Island Sound -- From the garden -- Love song for K. Owyne -- Flight -- For Eleanor Boylan talking with God -- Black art -- Letter written during a January northeaster -- Live or die(1966): author's note -- And one for my dame -- Sun -- Flee on your donkey -- Three green windows -- Somewhere in Africa -- Imitations of drowning -- Mother and Jack and the rain -- Consorting with angels -- Legend of the one-eyed man -- Love song -- Man and wife -- Those times -- Two sons -- To lose the earth -- Sylvia's death -- Protestant Easter -- For the year of the insane -- Crossing the Atlantic -- Walking in Paris -- Menstruation at forty -- Christmas Eve -- KE 6-8018 -- Wanting to die -- Wedding night -- Little girl, my string bean, my lovely woman -- Little uncomplicated hymn -- Your face on the dog's neck -- Self in 1958 -- Suicide note -- In the beach house -- Cripples and other stories -- Pain for a daughter -- Addict -- Live -- Love poems(1969): Touch -- Kiss -- Breast -- Interrogation of the man of many hearts -- That day -- In celebration of my uterus -- Nude swim -- Song for a red nightgown -- loving the killer -- For my lover, returning to his wife -- Break -- It is a spring afternoon -- Just once -- Again and again and again -- You all know the story of the other woman -- Moon song, woman song -- Ballad of the lonely masturbator -- Barefoot -- Papa and mama dance -- Now -- Us -- Mr. Mine -- Song for a lady -- Knee song -- Eighteen days without you -- Transformations(1971): Gold key -- Snow White and the seven dwarfs -- White snake -- Rumpelstiltskin -- Little peasant -- Godfather death -- Rapunzel -- Iron Hans -- Cinderella -- One-eye, two-eyes, three-eyes -- Wonderful musician -- Red Riding Hood -- Maiden without hands -- Twelve dancing princesses -- Frog prince -- Hansel and Gretel -- Briar Rose(Sleeping Beauty) -- Book of folly(1972): Thirty poems: Ambition bird -- Doctor of the heart -- Oh -- Sweeney -- Mother and daughter -- Wifebeater -- Firebombers -- One-legged man -- Assassin -- Going gone -- Anna who was mad -- Hex -- Dreaming the breasts -- Red shoes -- Other Silence -- Hoarder -- Killing the spring -- Death of the father: Oysters -- How we danced -- boat -- Santa -- Friends -- Begat -- Angels of the love affair: Angel of fire and genitals -- Angel of clean sheets -- Angel of flight and sleigh bells -- Angel of hope and calendars -- Angel of blizzards and blackouts -- Angel of beach houses and picnics -- Jesus papers: Jesus suckles -- Jesus awake -- Jesus asleep -- Jesus raises up the harlot -- Jesus cooks -- Jesus summons forth -- Jesus dies -- Jesus unborn -- Author of the Jesus papers speaks -- Death notebooks(1974): Gods -- Making a living -- For Mr. Death who stands with his door open -- Faustus and I -- Death baby: Dreams -- Dy-dee doll -- Seven times -- Madonna -- Max -- Baby -- Rats live on no evil star -- Grandfather, your wound -- Baby picture -- Furies: Fury of beautiful bones -- Fury of hating eyes -- Fury of guitars and sopranos -- Fury of earth -- Fury of jewels and coal -- Fury of cooks -- Fury of cocks -- Fury of abandonment -- Fury of overshoes -- Fury of rain storms -- Fury of flowers and worms -- Fury of God's good-bye -- Fury of Sundays -- Fury of sunsets -- Fury of sunrises -- Praying on a 707 -- Clothes -- Mary's song -- God's backside -- Jesus walking -- Hurry up please it's time -- O ye tongues: First psalm -- Second psalm -- Third psalm -- Fourth psalm -- Fifth psalm -- Sixth psalm -- Seventh psalm -- Eighth psalm -- Ninth psalm -- Tenth psalm -- Awful rowing toward God(1975): Rowing -- Civil war -- Children -- Two hands -- Room of my life -- Witch's life -- Earth falls down -- Courage -- Riding the elevator into the sky -- When man enters woman -- Fish that walked -- Fallen angels -- Earth -- After Auschwitz -- Poet of ignorance -- Sermon of the twelve acknowledgments -- Evil eye -- Dead heart -- Play -- Sickness unto death -- Locked doors -- Evil seekers -- Wall -- Is it true? -- Welcome morning -- Jesus, the actor, plays the holy Ghost -- God-monger -- What the bird with the human head knew -- Fire thief -- Big heart -- Words -- Mothers -- Doctors -- Frenzy -- Snow -- Small wire -- Saints come marching in -- Not so. Not so. -- Rowing endeth -- Posthumously published work -- Editor's note: Beginning the hegira: 45 Mercy Street -- Talking to sheep -- Falling dolls -- Money swing -- Food -- Child bearers -- Taker -- Risk -- Praying to big Jack -- Red roses -- Shout -- Keeping the city -- Bestiary U.S.A.: Bat -- Hog -- Porcupine -- Hornet -- Star-nosed mole -- Snail -- Lobster -- Snake -- Moose -- Sheep -- Cockroach -- Raccoon -- Seal -- Earthworm -- Whale -- Horse -- June bug -- Gull -- Divorce papers: Where it was at back then -- Wedlock -- Landscape winter -- Despair -- Divorce -- Waking alone -- Bayonet -- Wedding ring dance -- When the glass of my body broke -- Break away -- Stand-ins -- Love plant -- Killing the love -- Red dance -- Inventory of goodbye -- Lost lie -- End, middle, beginning -- Eating the leftovers: Cigarettes and whiskey and wild, wild women -- Passion of the mad rabbit -- Angel food dogs -- Leaves that talk -- "Daddy" Warbucks -- Divorce, thy name is woman -- Fierceness of female -- Big boots of pain -- Demon Sea corpse -- There you were -- Consecrating mother --Words for Dr. Y.(1978): Editor's note: Letters to Dr. Y.(1960-1970) -- Poems 1971-1973: Buying the whore -- To like, to love -- Surgeon -- Speaking bitterness -- Telephone -- Yellow -- Death king -- Errand -- Twelve-thousand-day honeymoon -- Scorpio, bad spider, die: the horoscope poems: Madame arrives in the mail -- January 1st -- January 19th -- January 24th -- February 3rd -- February 4th -- February 11th -- February 17th -- February 20th -- February 21st -- March 4th -- March 7th -- May 30th -- August 8th -- August 17th -- Last poems: Admonitions to a special person -- In excelsis -- Uses -- As it was written -- Lessons in hunger -- Love letter written in a burning building -- Index of titles. |
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The Complete Poems : Anne Sexton
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The Complete Poems : Anne Sexton
Anne Sexton (1928-1974) is one of the most influential & frequently discussed American poets. She lived all her life in the Boston area. (Publisher Provided)
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