Selected poems of Anne Sexton /

Selected poems of Anne Sexton /

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Author / Creator:Sexton, Anne, 1928-1974
Uniform title:Poems. Selections
Imprint:Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1988.
Description:xxvi, 266 p. ; 22 cm.
Language:English
Subject:American poetry.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/885624
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Other authors / contributors:Middlebrook, Diane Wood, 1939-2007
George, Diana Hume, 1948-
ISBN:0395445957
0395477824 (pbk.)
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Chronology
  • Early Poems
  • The Balance Wheel (1958)
  • An Obsessive Combination of Ontological Inscape, Trickery and Love (1959)
  • My Friend, My Friend (1959)
  • from To Bedlam and Part Way Back (1960)
  • You, Doctor Martin
  • Kind Sir: These Woods
  • Music Swims Back to Me
  • Elizabeth Gone
  • Some Foreign Letters
  • Said the Poet to the Analyst
  • Her Kind
  • Unknown Girl in the Maternity Ward
  • What's That
  • The Moss of His Skin
  • Ringing the Bells
  • Lullaby
  • The Lost Ingredient
  • For John, Who Begs Me Not to Enquire Further
  • The Double Image
  • The Division of Parts
  • from All My Pretty Ones (1962)
  • The Truth the Dead Know
  • All My Pretty Ones
  • Young
  • Lament
  • To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Triumph
  • The Starry Night
  • Old Dwarf Heart
  • I Remember
  • The Operation
  • The Abortion
  • With Mercy for the Greedy
  • In the Deep Museum
  • The Fortress
  • Old
  • Housewife
  • Letter Written on a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound
  • For Eleanor Boylan Talking with God
  • The Black Art
  • from Live or Die (1966)
  • And One for My Dame
  • Flee on Your Donkey
  • Somewhere in Africa
  • Consorting with Angels
  • The Legend of the One-Eyed Man
  • Protestant Easter
  • For the Year of the Insane
  • Walking in Paris
  • Menstruation at Forty
  • Wanting to Die
  • Little Girl, My Stringbean, My Lovely Woman
  • Your Face on the Dog's Neck
  • Self in 1958
  • In the Beach House
  • Cripples and Other Stories
  • Pain for a Daughter
  • The Addict
  • Live
  • from Love Poems (1969)
  • The Breast
  • In Celebration of My Uterus
  • Loving the Killer
  • For My Lover, Returning to His Wife
  • It Is a Spring Afternoon
  • Just Once
  • You All Know the Story of the Other Woman
  • The Ballad of the Lonely Masturbator
  • The Papa and Mama Dance
  • Us
  • Mr. Mine
  • Song for a Lady
  • from Eighteen Days Without You
  • December 2
  • December 11
  • December 18
  • from Transformations (1971)
  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
  • Rapunzel
  • One-Eye, Two-Eyes, Three-Eyes
  • The Frog Prince
  • Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty)
  • from The Book of Folly (1972)
  • from Thirty Poems
  • Mother and Daughter
  • Dreaming the Breasts
  • The Silence
  • from The Death of the Fathers
  • 1.. Oysters
  • 2.. How We Danced
  • 3.. The Boat
  • 4.. Santa
  • Angels of the Love Affair
  • 1.. Angel of Fire and Genitals
  • 2.. Angel of Clean Sheets
  • 3.. Angel of Flight and Sleigh Bells
  • 4.. Angel of Hope and Calendars
  • 5.. Angel of Blizzards and Blackouts
  • 6.. Angel of Beach Houses and Picnics
  • from The Jesus Papers
  • Jesus Suckles
  • Jesus Awake
  • Jesus Asleep
  • Jesus Raises Up the Harlot
  • Jesus Cooks
  • Jesus Summons Forth
  • Jesus Dies
  • Jesus Unborn
  • The Author of the Jesus Papers Speaks
  • from The Death Notebooks (1974)
  • For Mr. Death Who Stands with His Door Open
  • The Death Baby
  • 1.. Dreams
  • 2.. The Dy-dee Doll
  • 3.. Seven Times
  • 4.. Madonna
  • 5.. Max
  • 6.. Baby
  • from The Furies
  • The Fury of Beautiful Bones
  • The Fury of Guitars and Sopranos
  • The Fury of Cooks
  • The Fury of Cocks
  • The Fury of Sunsets
  • The Fury of Sunrises
  • Clothes
  • from O Ye Tongues
  • First Psalm
  • Fourth Psalm
  • Eighth Psalm
  • Tenth Psalm
  • from The Awful Rowing Toward God (1975)
  • Rowing
  • Riding the Elevator into the Sky
  • When Man Enters Woman
  • The Earth
  • Jesus, the Actor, Plays the Holy Ghost
  • Frenzy
  • The God-Monger
  • Small Wire
  • The Rowing Endeth
  • Posthumously Published Work
  • 45 Mercy Street (1976)
  • from Beginning the Hegira
  • The Money Swing
  • Food
  • from Bestiary U.S.A.
  • Hornet
  • Star-Nosed Mole
  • Whale
  • from The Divorce Papers
  • Where It Was At Back Then
  • from Eating the Leftovers
  • Divorce, Thy Name Is Woman
  • The Consecrating Mother
  • Words for Dr. Y. (1978)
  • from Letters to Dr. Y.
  • [What has it come to, Dr. Y.]
  • [I called him Comfort]
  • [It's music you've never heard]
  • [I'm dreaming the My Lai soldier again]
  • from Scorpio, Bad Spider, Die: The Horoscope Poems
  • January 24th
  • February 3rd
  • February 21st
  • from Last Poems
  • In Excelsis

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