The complete poems
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- ISBN: 0395957761 (pbk.) :
- ISBN: 9780395957769 (pbk.)
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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. |
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The Complete Poems : Anne Sexton
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Table of Contents
The Complete Poems : Anne Sexton
Section | Section Description | Page Number |
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A Note on the Text | p. v | |
How It Was: Maxine Kumin on Anne Sexton | p. xix | |
To Bedlam and Part Way Back (1960) | ||
I | ||
You, Doctor Martin | p. 3 | |
Kind Sir: These Woods | p. 4 | |
Torn Down from Glory Daily | p. 5 | |
Music Swims Back to Me | p. 6 | |
The Bells | p. 7 | |
Elizabeth Gone | p. 8 | |
Some Foreign Letters | p. 9 | |
The Kite | p. 11 | |
Said the Poet to the Analyst | p. 12 | |
Venus and the Ark | p. 13 | |
Her Kind | p. 15 | |
The Exorcists | p. 16 | |
Where I Live in This Honorable House of the Laurel Tree | p. 17 | |
Portrait of an Old Woman on the College Tavern Wall | p. 18 | |
The Farmer's Wife | p. 19 | |
Funnel | p. 20 | |
The Expatriates | p. 21 | |
For Johnny Pole on the Forgotten Beach | p. 22 | |
Unknown Girl in the Maternity Ward | p. 24 | |
What's That | p. 25 | |
The Moss of His Skin | p. 26 | |
Hutch | p. 27 | |
Noon Walk on the Asylum Lawn | p. 27 | |
Ringing the Bells | p. 28 | |
Lullaby | p. 29 | |
The Lost Ingredient | p. 30 | |
The Road Back | p. 30 | |
The Waiting Head | p. 31 | |
Elegy in the Classroom | p. 32 | |
A Story for Rose on the Midnight Flight to Boston | p. 32 | |
II | ||
For John, Who Begs Me Not to Enquire Further | p. 34 | |
The Double Image | p. 35 | |
The Division of Parts | p. 42 | |
All My Pretty Ones (1962) | ||
I | ||
The Truth the Dead Know | p. 49 | |
All My Pretty Ones | p. 49 | |
Young | p. 51 | |
Lament | p. 52 | |
To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Triumph | p. 53 | |
The Starry Night | p. 53 | |
Old Dwarf Heart | p. 54 | |
I Remember | p. 55 | |
The Operation | p. 56 | |
II | ||
A Curse Against Elegies | p. 60 | |
The Abortion | p. 61 | |
With Mercy for the Greedy | p. 62 | |
For God While Sleeping | p. 63 | |
In the Deep Museum | p. 64 | |
Ghosts | p. 65 | |
III | ||
The Fortress | p. 66 | |
IV | ||
Old | p. 69 | |
The Hangman | p. 69 | |
Woman with Girdle | p. 70 | |
The House | p. 71 | |
Water | p. 75 | |
Wallflower | p. 76 | |
Housewife | p. 77 | |
Doors, Doors, Doors | p. 78 | |
V | ||
Letter Written on a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound | p. 81 | |
From the Garden | p. 84 | |
Love Song for K. Owyne | p. 85 | |
Flight | p. 86 | |
For Eleanor Boylan Talking with God | p. 87 | |
The Black Art | p. 88 | |
Letter Written During a January Northeaster | p. 89 | |
Live or Die (1966) | ||
Author's Note | p. 94 | |
And One for My Dame | p. 95 | |
The Sun | p. 96 | |
Flee on Your Donkey | p. 97 | |
Three Green Windows | p. 105 | |
Somewhere in Africa | p. 106 | |
Imitations of Drowning | p. 107 | |
Mother and Jack and the Rain | p. 109 | |
Consorting with Angels | p. 111 | |
The Legend of the One-eyed Man | p. 112 | |
Love Song | p. 115 | |
Man and Wife | p. 116 | |
Those Times... | p. 118 | |
Two Sons | p. 121 | |
To Lose the Earth | p. 123 | |
Sylvia's Death | p. 126 | |
Protestant Easter | p. 128 | |
For the Year of the Insane | p. 131 | |
Crossing the Atlantic | p. 133 | |
Walking in Paris | p. 135 | |
Menstruation at Forty | p. 137 | |
Christmas Eve | p. 139 | |
KE 6-8018 | p. 140 | |
Wanting to Die | p. 142 | |
The Wedding Night | p. 144 | |
Little Girl, My String Bean, My Lovely Woman | p. 145 | |
A Little Uncomplicated Hymn | p. 148 | |
Your Face on the Dog's Neck | p. 152 | |
Self in 1958 | p. 155 | |
Suicide Note | p. 156 | |
In the Beach House | p. 159 | |
Cripples and Other Stories | p. 160 | |
Pain for a Daughter | p. 163 | |
The Addict | p. 165 | |
Live | p. 167 | |
Love Poems (1969) | ||
The Touch | p. 173 | |
The Kiss | p. 174 | |
The Breast | p. 175 | |
The Interrogation of the Man of Many Hearts | p. 176 | |
That Day | p. 180 | |
In Celebration of My Uterus | p. 181 | |
The Nude Swim | p. 183 | |
Song for a Red Nightgown | p. 184 | |
Loving the Killer | p. 185 | |
For My Lover, Returning to His Wife | p. 188 | |
The Break | p. 190 | |
It Is a Spring Afternoon | p. 193 | |
Just Once | p. 194 | |
Again and Again and Again | p. 195 | |
You All Know the Story of the Other Woman | p. 196 | |
Moon Song, Woman Song | p. 196 | |
The Ballad of the Lonely Masturbator | p. 198 | |
Barefoot | p. 199 | |
The Papa and Mama Dance | p. 200 | |
Now | p. 201 | |
Us | p. 202 | |
Mr. Mine | p. 204 | |
Song for a Lady | p. 204 | |
Knee Song | p. 205 | |
Eighteen Days Without You | p. 205 | |
Transformations (1971) | ||
The Gold Key | p. 223 | |
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | p. 224 | |
The White Snake | p. 229 | |
Rumpelstiltskin | p. 233 | |
The Little Peasant | p. 237 | |
Godfather Death | p. 242 | |
Rapunzel | p. 244 | |
Iron Hans | p. 249 | |
Cinderella | p. 255 | |
One-Eye, Two-Eyes, Three-Eyes | p. 258 | |
The Wonderful Musician | p. 264 | |
Red Riding Hood | p. 267 | |
The Maiden Without Hands | p. 273 | |
The Twelve Dancing Princesses | p. 276 | |
The Frog Prince | p. 281 | |
Hansel and Gretel | p. 286 | |
Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty) | p. 290 | |
The Book of Folly (1972) | ||
I. | Thirty Poems | |
The Ambition Bird | p. 299 | |
The Doctor of the Heart | p. 301 | |
Oh | p. 302 | |
Sweeney | p. 304 | |
Mother and Daughter | p. 305 | |
The Wifebeater | p. 307 | |
The Firebombers | p. 308 | |
The One-Legged Man | p. 308 | |
The Assassin | p. 310 | |
Going Gone | p. 311 | |
Anna Who Was Mad | p. 312 | |
The Hex | p. 313 | |
Dreaming the Breasts | p. 314 | |
The Red Shoes | p. 315 | |
The Other | p. 317 | |
The Silence | p. 318 | |
The Hoarder | p. 319 | |
Killing the Spring | p. 320 | |
The Death of the Fathers | p. 322 | |
1. | Oysters | p. 322 |
2. | How We Danced | p. 323 |
3. | The Boat | p. 324 |
4. | Santa | p. 325 |
5. | Friends | p. 327 |
6. | Begat | p. 329 |
Angels of the Love Affair | p. 332 | |
1. | Angel of Fire and Genitals | p. 332 |
2. | Angel of Clean Sheets | p. 333 |
3. | Angel of Flight and Sleigh Bells | p. 333 |
4. | Angel of Hope and Calendars | p. 334 |
5. | Angel of Blizzards and Blackouts | p. 335 |
6. | Angel of Beach Houses and Picnics | p. 335 |
II. | The Jesus Papers | |
Jesus Suckles | p. 337 | |
Jesus Awake | p. 338 | |
Jesus Asleep | p. 338 | |
Jesus Raises Up the Harlot | p. 339 | |
Jesus Cooks | p. 340 | |
Jesus Summons Forth | p. 341 | |
Jesus Dies | p. 342 | |
Jesus Unborn | p. 343 | |
The Author of the Jesus Papers Speaks | p. 344 | |
The Death Notebooks (1974) | ||
Gods | p. 349 | |
Making a Living | p. 350 | |
For Mr. Death Who Stands with His Door Open | p. 351 | |
Faustus and I | p. 353 | |
The Death Baby | p. 354 | |
1. | Dreams | p. 354 |
2. | The Dy-dee Doll | p. 355 |
3. | Seven Times | p. 356 |
4. | Madonna | p. 356 |
5. | Max | p. 357 |
6. | Baby | p. 357 |
Rats Live on No Evil Star | p. 359 | |
Grandfather, Your Wound | p. 361 | |
Baby Picture | p. 362 | |
The Furies | p. 363 | |
The Fury of Beautiful Bones | p. 363 | |
The Fury of Hating Eyes | p. 364 | |
The Fury of Guitars and Sopranos | p. 365 | |
The Fury of Earth | p. 366 | |
The Fury of Jewels and Coal | p. 367 | |
The Fury of Cooks | p. 367 | |
The Fury of Cocks | p. 369 | |
The Fury of Abandonment | p. 370 | |
The Fury of Overshoes | p. 371 | |
The Fury of Rain Storms | p. 372 | |
The Fury of Flowers and Worms | p. 373 | |
The Fury of God's Good-bye | p. 374 | |
The Fury of Sundays | p. 375 | |
The Fury of Sunsets | p. 376 | |
The Fury of Sunrises | p. 377 | |
Praying on a 707 | p. 378 | |
Clothes | p. 380 | |
Mary's Song | p. 381 | |
God's Backside | p. 382 | |
Jesus Walking | p. 383 | |
Hurry Up Please It's Time | p. 384 | |
O Ye Tongues | p. 396 | |
First Psalm | p. 396 | |
Second Psalm | p. 398 | |
Third Psalm | p. 399 | |
Fourth Psalm | p. 401 | |
Fifth Psalm | p. 403 | |
Sixth Psalm | p. 405 | |
Seventh Psalm | p. 406 | |
Eighth Psalm | p. 408 | |
Ninth Psalm | p. 409 | |
Tenth Psalm | p. 411 | |
The Awful Rowing Toward God (1975) | ||
Rowing | p. 417 | |
The Civil War | p. 418 | |
The Children | p. 419 | |
Two Hands | p. 421 | |
The Room of My Life | p. 422 | |
The Witch's Life | p. 423 | |
The Earth Falls Down | p. 424 | |
Courage | p. 425 | |
Riding the Elevator into the Sky | p. 426 | |
When Man Enters Woman | p. 428 | |
The Fish That Walked | p. 428 | |
The Fallen Angels | p. 430 | |
The Earth | p. 431 | |
After Auschwitz | p. 432 | |
The Poet of Ignorance | p. 433 | |
The Sermon of the Twelve Acknowledgments | p. 435 | |
The Evil Eye | p. 437 | |
The Dead Heart | p. 439 | |
The Play | p. 440 | |
The Sickness Unto Death | p. 441 | |
Locked Doors | p. 442 | |
The Evil Seekers | p. 443 | |
The Wall | p. 445 | |
Is It True? | p. 446 | |
Welcome Morning | p. 455 | |
Jesus, the Actor, Plays the Holy Ghost | p. 456 | |
The God-Monger | p. 457 | |
What the Bird with the Human Head Knew | p. 458 | |
The Fire Thief | p. 460 | |
The Big Heart | p. 462 | |
Words | p. 463 | |
Mothers | p. 464 | |
Doctors | p. 465 | |
Frenzy | p. 466 | |
Snow | p. 467 | |
Small Wire | p. 468 | |
The Saints Come Marching In | p. 469 | |
Not So. Not So. | p. 472 | |
The Rowing Endeth | p. 473 | |
Posthumously Published Work | ||
45 Mercy Street (1976) | ||
Editor's Note | p. 479 | |
I. | Beginning the Hegira | |
45 Mercy Street | p. 481 | |
Talking to Sheep | p. 484 | |
The Falling Dolls | p. 486 | |
The Money Swing | p. 487 | |
Food | p. 488 | |
The Child Bearers | p. 489 | |
The Taker | p. 490 | |
The Risk | p. 491 | |
Praying to Big Jack | p. 491 | |
Red Roses | p. 492 | |
The Shout | p. 493 | |
Keeping the City | p. 494 | |
II. | Bestiary U.S.A. | |
Bat | p. 497 | |
Hog | p. 498 | |
Porcupine | p. 498 | |
Hornet | p. 499 | |
Star-Nosed Mole | p. 500 | |
Snail | p. 501 | |
Lobster | p. 501 | |
Snake | p. 502 | |
Moose | p. 502 | |
Sheep | p. 503 | |
Cockroach | p. 503 | |
Raccoon | p. 504 | |
Seal | p. 505 | |
Earthworm | p. 505 | |
Whale | p. 506 | |
Horse | p. 507 | |
June Bug | p. 507 | |
Gull | p. 508 | |
III. | The Divorce Papers | |
Where It Was At Back Then | p. 509 | |
The Wedlock | p. 510 | |
Landscape Winter | p. 511 | |
Despair | p. 512 | |
Divorce | p. 512 | |
Waking Alone | p. 513 | |
Bayonet | p. 515 | |
The Wedding Ring Dance | p. 516 | |
When the Glass of My Body Broke | p. 517 | |
The Break Away | p. 518 | |
The Stand-Ins | p. 526 | |
The Love Plant | p. 527 | |
Killing the Love | p. 529 | |
The Red Dance | p. 530 | |
The Inventory of Goodbye | p. 532 | |
The Lost Lie | p. 533 | |
End, Middle, Beginning | p. 534 | |
IV. | Eating the Leftovers | |
Cigarettes and Whiskey and Wild, Wild Women | p. 537 | |
The Passion of the Mad Rabbit | p. 538 | |
The Angel Food Dogs | p. 539 | |
Leaves That Talk | p. 540 | |
"Daddy" Warbucks | p. 543 | |
Divorce, Thy Name Is Woman | p. 545 | |
The Fierceness of Female | p. 546 | |
The Big Boots of Pain | p. 547 | |
Demon | p. 549 | |
The Sea Corpse | p. 551 | |
There You Were | p. 552 | |
The Consecrating Mother | p. 554 | |
Words for Dr. Y. (1978) | ||
Editor's Note | p. 559 | |
I. | Letters to Dr. Y. (1960-1970) | p. 561 |
II. | Poems 1971-1973 | |
Buying the Whore | p. 581 | |
To Like, To Love | p. 581 | |
The Surgeon | p. 583 | |
Speaking Bitterness | p. 584 | |
Telephone | p. 585 | |
Yellow | p. 586 | |
The Death King | p. 587 | |
The Errand | p. 588 | |
The Twelve-Thousand-Day Honeymoon | p. 589 | |
III. | Scorpio, Bad Spider, Die: The Horoscope Poems | |
Madame Arrives in the Mail | p. 591 | |
January 1st | p. 592 | |
January 19th | p. 593 | |
January 24th | p. 594 | |
February 3rd | p. 595 | |
February 4th | p. 596 | |
February 11th | p. 597 | |
February 17th | p. 598 | |
February 20th | p. 599 | |
February 21st | p. 600 | |
March 4th | p. 601 | |
March 7th | p. 601 | |
May 30th | p. 602 | |
August 8th | p. 602 | |
August 17th | p. 603 | |
Last Poems | ||
Admonitions to a Special Person | p. 607 | |
In Excelsis | p. 608 | |
Uses | p. 610 | |
As It Was Written | p. 611 | |
Lessons in Hunger | p. 612 | |
Love Letter Written in a Burning Building | p. 613 | |
Index of Titles | p. 617 |