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Summary: 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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  • ISBN: 0395957761 (pbk.) :
  • ISBN: 9780395957769 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: print
    xxxiv, 622 pages ; 21 cm
  • Edition: First Mariner Books edition.
  • Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [1999]

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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.
Subject: American poetry 20th century
Poetry
American poetry
Poetry as Topic

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The Complete Poems : Anne Sexton

SectionSection DescriptionPage Number
A Note on the Textp. v
How It Was: Maxine Kumin on Anne Sextonp. xix
To Bedlam and Part Way Back (1960)
I    
        You, Doctor Martinp. 3
        Kind Sir: These Woodsp. 4
        Torn Down from Glory Dailyp. 5
        Music Swims Back to Mep. 6
        The Bellsp. 7
        Elizabeth Gonep. 8
        Some Foreign Lettersp. 9
        The Kitep. 11
        Said the Poet to the Analystp. 12
        Venus and the Arkp. 13
        Her Kindp. 15
        The Exorcistsp. 16
        Where I Live in This Honorable House of the Laurel Treep. 17
        Portrait of an Old Woman on the College Tavern Wallp. 18
        The Farmer's Wifep. 19
        Funnelp. 20
        The Expatriatesp. 21
        For Johnny Pole on the Forgotten Beachp. 22
        Unknown Girl in the Maternity Wardp. 24
        What's Thatp. 25
        The Moss of His Skinp. 26
        Hutchp. 27
        Noon Walk on the Asylum Lawnp. 27
        Ringing the Bellsp. 28
        Lullabyp. 29
        The Lost Ingredientp. 30
        The Road Backp. 30
        The Waiting Headp. 31
        Elegy in the Classroomp. 32
        A Story for Rose on the Midnight Flight to Bostonp. 32
II    
        For John, Who Begs Me Not to Enquire Furtherp. 34
        The Double Imagep. 35
        The Division of Partsp. 42
All My Pretty Ones (1962)
I    
        The Truth the Dead Knowp. 49
        All My Pretty Onesp. 49
        Youngp. 51
        Lamentp. 52
        To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Triumphp. 53
        The Starry Nightp. 53
        Old Dwarf Heartp. 54
        I Rememberp. 55
        The Operationp. 56
II    
        A Curse Against Elegiesp. 60
        The Abortionp. 61
        With Mercy for the Greedyp. 62
        For God While Sleepingp. 63
        In the Deep Museump. 64
        Ghostsp. 65
III    
        The Fortressp. 66
IV    
        Oldp. 69
        The Hangmanp. 69
        Woman with Girdlep. 70
        The Housep. 71
        Waterp. 75
        Wallflowerp. 76
        Housewifep. 77
        Doors, Doors, Doorsp. 78
V    
        Letter Written on a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Soundp. 81
        From the Gardenp. 84
        Love Song for K. Owynep. 85
        Flightp. 86
        For Eleanor Boylan Talking with Godp. 87
        The Black Artp. 88
        Letter Written During a January Northeasterp. 89
Live or Die (1966)
        Author's Notep. 94
        And One for My Damep. 95
        The Sunp. 96
        Flee on Your Donkeyp. 97
        Three Green Windowsp. 105
        Somewhere in Africap. 106
        Imitations of Drowningp. 107
        Mother and Jack and the Rainp. 109
        Consorting with Angelsp. 111
        The Legend of the One-eyed Manp. 112
        Love Songp. 115
        Man and Wifep. 116
        Those Times...p. 118
        Two Sonsp. 121
        To Lose the Earthp. 123
        Sylvia's Deathp. 126
        Protestant Easterp. 128
        For the Year of the Insanep. 131
        Crossing the Atlanticp. 133
        Walking in Parisp. 135
        Menstruation at Fortyp. 137
        Christmas Evep. 139
        KE 6-8018p. 140
        Wanting to Diep. 142
        The Wedding Nightp. 144
        Little Girl, My String Bean, My Lovely Womanp. 145
        A Little Uncomplicated Hymnp. 148
        Your Face on the Dog's Neckp. 152
        Self in 1958p. 155
        Suicide Notep. 156
        In the Beach Housep. 159
        Cripples and Other Storiesp. 160
        Pain for a Daughterp. 163
        The Addictp. 165
        Livep. 167
Love Poems (1969)
        The Touchp. 173
        The Kissp. 174
        The Breastp. 175
        The Interrogation of the Man of Many Heartsp. 176
        That Dayp. 180
        In Celebration of My Uterusp. 181
        The Nude Swimp. 183
        Song for a Red Nightgownp. 184
        Loving the Killerp. 185
        For My Lover, Returning to His Wifep. 188
        The Breakp. 190
        It Is a Spring Afternoonp. 193
        Just Oncep. 194
        Again and Again and Againp. 195
        You All Know the Story of the Other Womanp. 196
        Moon Song, Woman Songp. 196
        The Ballad of the Lonely Masturbatorp. 198
        Barefootp. 199
        The Papa and Mama Dancep. 200
        Nowp. 201
        Usp. 202
        Mr. Minep. 204
        Song for a Ladyp. 204
        Knee Songp. 205
        Eighteen Days Without Youp. 205
Transformations (1971)
        The Gold Keyp. 223
        Snow White and the Seven Dwarfsp. 224
        The White Snakep. 229
        Rumpelstiltskinp. 233
        The Little Peasantp. 237
        Godfather Deathp. 242
        Rapunzelp. 244
        Iron Hansp. 249
        Cinderellap. 255
        One-Eye, Two-Eyes, Three-Eyesp. 258
        The Wonderful Musicianp. 264
        Red Riding Hoodp. 267
        The Maiden Without Handsp. 273
        The Twelve Dancing Princessesp. 276
        The Frog Princep. 281
        Hansel and Gretelp. 286
        Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty)p. 290
The Book of Folly (1972)
I.    Thirty Poems
        The Ambition Birdp. 299
        The Doctor of the Heartp. 301
        Ohp. 302
        Sweeneyp. 304
        Mother and Daughterp. 305
        The Wifebeaterp. 307
        The Firebombersp. 308
        The One-Legged Manp. 308
        The Assassinp. 310
        Going Gonep. 311
        Anna Who Was Madp. 312
        The Hexp. 313
        Dreaming the Breastsp. 314
        The Red Shoesp. 315
        The Otherp. 317
        The Silencep. 318
        The Hoarderp. 319
        Killing the Springp. 320
        The Death of the Fathersp. 322
1.            Oystersp. 322
2.            How We Dancedp. 323
3.            The Boatp. 324
4.            Santap. 325
5.            Friendsp. 327
6.            Begatp. 329
        Angels of the Love Affairp. 332
1.            Angel of Fire and Genitalsp. 332
2.            Angel of Clean Sheetsp. 333
3.            Angel of Flight and Sleigh Bellsp. 333
4.            Angel of Hope and Calendarsp. 334
5.            Angel of Blizzards and Blackoutsp. 335
6.            Angel of Beach Houses and Picnicsp. 335
II.    The Jesus Papers
        Jesus Sucklesp. 337
        Jesus Awakep. 338
        Jesus Asleepp. 338
        Jesus Raises Up the Harlotp. 339
        Jesus Cooksp. 340
        Jesus Summons Forthp. 341
        Jesus Diesp. 342
        Jesus Unbornp. 343
        The Author of the Jesus Papers Speaksp. 344
The Death Notebooks (1974)
        Godsp. 349
        Making a Livingp. 350
        For Mr. Death Who Stands with His Door Openp. 351
        Faustus and Ip. 353
        The Death Babyp. 354
1.            Dreamsp. 354
2.            The Dy-dee Dollp. 355
3.            Seven Timesp. 356
4.            Madonnap. 356
5.            Maxp. 357
6.            Babyp. 357
        Rats Live on No Evil Starp. 359
        Grandfather, Your Woundp. 361
        Baby Picturep. 362
        The Furiesp. 363
            The Fury of Beautiful Bonesp. 363
            The Fury of Hating Eyesp. 364
            The Fury of Guitars and Sopranosp. 365
            The Fury of Earthp. 366
            The Fury of Jewels and Coalp. 367
            The Fury of Cooksp. 367
            The Fury of Cocksp. 369
            The Fury of Abandonmentp. 370
            The Fury of Overshoesp. 371
            The Fury of Rain Stormsp. 372
            The Fury of Flowers and Wormsp. 373
            The Fury of God's Good-byep. 374
            The Fury of Sundaysp. 375
            The Fury of Sunsetsp. 376
            The Fury of Sunrisesp. 377
        Praying on a 707p. 378
        Clothesp. 380
        Mary's Songp. 381
        God's Backsidep. 382
        Jesus Walkingp. 383
        Hurry Up Please It's Timep. 384
        O Ye Tonguesp. 396
            First Psalmp. 396
            Second Psalmp. 398
            Third Psalmp. 399
            Fourth Psalmp. 401
            Fifth Psalmp. 403
            Sixth Psalmp. 405
            Seventh Psalmp. 406
            Eighth Psalmp. 408
            Ninth Psalmp. 409
            Tenth Psalmp. 411
The Awful Rowing Toward God (1975)
        Rowingp. 417
        The Civil Warp. 418
        The Childrenp. 419
        Two Handsp. 421
        The Room of My Lifep. 422
        The Witch's Lifep. 423
        The Earth Falls Downp. 424
        Couragep. 425
        Riding the Elevator into the Skyp. 426
        When Man Enters Womanp. 428
        The Fish That Walkedp. 428
        The Fallen Angelsp. 430
        The Earthp. 431
        After Auschwitzp. 432
        The Poet of Ignorancep. 433
        The Sermon of the Twelve Acknowledgmentsp. 435
        The Evil Eyep. 437
        The Dead Heartp. 439
        The Playp. 440
        The Sickness Unto Deathp. 441
        Locked Doorsp. 442
        The Evil Seekersp. 443
        The Wallp. 445
        Is It True?p. 446
        Welcome Morningp. 455
        Jesus, the Actor, Plays the Holy Ghostp. 456
        The God-Mongerp. 457
        What the Bird with the Human Head Knewp. 458
        The Fire Thiefp. 460
        The Big Heartp. 462
        Wordsp. 463
        Mothersp. 464
        Doctorsp. 465
        Frenzyp. 466
        Snowp. 467
        Small Wirep. 468
        The Saints Come Marching Inp. 469
        Not So. Not So.p. 472
        The Rowing Endethp. 473
Posthumously Published Work
45 Mercy Street (1976)
Editor's Notep. 479
I.    Beginning the Hegira
        45 Mercy Streetp. 481
        Talking to Sheepp. 484
        The Falling Dollsp. 486
        The Money Swingp. 487
        Foodp. 488
        The Child Bearersp. 489
        The Takerp. 490
        The Riskp. 491
        Praying to Big Jackp. 491
        Red Rosesp. 492
        The Shoutp. 493
        Keeping the Cityp. 494
II.    Bestiary U.S.A.
        Batp. 497
        Hogp. 498
        Porcupinep. 498
        Hornetp. 499
        Star-Nosed Molep. 500
        Snailp. 501
        Lobsterp. 501
        Snakep. 502
        Moosep. 502
        Sheepp. 503
        Cockroachp. 503
        Raccoonp. 504
        Sealp. 505
        Earthwormp. 505
        Whalep. 506
        Horsep. 507
        June Bugp. 507
        Gullp. 508
III.    The Divorce Papers
        Where It Was At Back Thenp. 509
        The Wedlockp. 510
        Landscape Winterp. 511
        Despairp. 512
        Divorcep. 512
        Waking Alonep. 513
        Bayonetp. 515
        The Wedding Ring Dancep. 516
        When the Glass of My Body Brokep. 517
        The Break Awayp. 518
        The Stand-Insp. 526
        The Love Plantp. 527
        Killing the Lovep. 529
        The Red Dancep. 530
        The Inventory of Goodbyep. 532
        The Lost Liep. 533
        End, Middle, Beginningp. 534
IV.    Eating the Leftovers
        Cigarettes and Whiskey and Wild, Wild Womenp. 537
        The Passion of the Mad Rabbitp. 538
        The Angel Food Dogsp. 539
        Leaves That Talkp. 540
        "Daddy" Warbucksp. 543
        Divorce, Thy Name Is Womanp. 545
        The Fierceness of Femalep. 546
        The Big Boots of Painp. 547
        Demonp. 549
        The Sea Corpsep. 551
        There You Werep. 552
        The Consecrating Motherp. 554
Words for Dr. Y. (1978)
Editor's Notep. 559
I.    Letters to Dr. Y. (1960-1970)p. 561
II.    Poems 1971-1973
        Buying the Whorep. 581
        To Like, To Lovep. 581
        The Surgeonp. 583
        Speaking Bitternessp. 584
        Telephonep. 585
        Yellowp. 586
        The Death Kingp. 587
        The Errandp. 588
        The Twelve-Thousand-Day Honeymoonp. 589
III.    Scorpio, Bad Spider, Die: The Horoscope Poems
        Madame Arrives in the Mailp. 591
        January 1stp. 592
        January 19thp. 593
        January 24thp. 594
        February 3rdp. 595
        February 4thp. 596
        February 11thp. 597
        February 17thp. 598
        February 20thp. 599
        February 21stp. 600
        March 4thp. 601
        March 7thp. 601
        May 30thp. 602
        August 8thp. 602
        August 17thp. 603
Last Poems
        Admonitions to a Special Personp. 607
        In Excelsisp. 608
        Usesp. 610
        As It Was Writtenp. 611
        Lessons in Hungerp. 612
        Love Letter Written in a Burning Buildingp. 613
Index of Titlesp. 617
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