Off The Bookshelf US -Books The Complete Poems: Anne Sexton The Complete Poems: Anne Sexton New & Used The Complete Poems: Anne Sexton Books CDS DVD's Nusic Electronics

Search Books - select a category

Buy The Complete Poems: Anne Sexton online at Discounted New and Used prices. Delivered to your door with Off-The-Bookshelf.

The Complete Poems: Anne Sexton
by: Anne Sexton

List Price: $19.00

Off The Bookshelf's Price: $12.92

You Save: $6.08 (32%)
Prices subject to change.

Used Price: $5.94
Third Party New Price: $10.66

Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780395957769
ISBN: 0395957761
Label: Mariner Books
Manufacturer: Mariner Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 656
Publication Date: April 28, 1999
Publisher: Mariner Books
Studio: Mariner Books
Sales Rank: 22897

Related Items:

Editorial Review:

Product Description:
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.

Amazon.com Review:
She drew her poems from a great depth in herself, and they continue to stir us...Her voice remains a distinctive one in American poetry of the past half century. -- J.D. McClatchy

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- this is what art looks like
An old friend gave me this book about 6 or 7 years ago and I immediately fell in love with it. Anne Sexton is absolutely my favorite poetess. Her writings are pure art.

Rating:

- Amazingly deep, personal, Anne
Of course, no words can justify this book, you really have to read it for yourself. Sometimes I find myself sitting around for hours just going through it--it seriously feels like dreaming. A lot of times they're nightmares, but they're always passionate. The feelings expressed can be found in all of us in some form, but if you can relate to Anne's struggle on a personal level, they'll speak even louder to you.

Rating:

- She is so depressing
I love Anne Sexton, but really, one can only take her a little at a time. Having read her bio and her daughters book, "To Mercy Street and Back" I had to have her complete works. Here is a woman who is stark raving mad, incests her daughter, and is still a great writer, but even my dark side says "too much". I can't read too much at a time. Still, i'm glad to have it in my library. It is amazint too me how much medication her doctors kept her on, on had an affair with her, one sold her tapes, supposedly confidential information. I feel a great deal of empathy and pity for this woman, oh she also had a husband who liked to use her as a punching bag and a mother in law that took over her household she lived with a bunch of enablers, without which she might never have become a writer, but ... Read More

Rating:

- "Originality is important..."
The Complete Poems by gifted poet Anne Sexton is my favorite book of poetry. Sexton suffered from repeated periods of depression and attempted suicides, unfortantely this talented woman could not overcome her inner-demons, she took her life in 1974. The first poem I ever read by Sexton was The Abortion: "Somebody who should have been born is gone/just as the earth puckered its mouth/each bud puffing out from its knot/I changed my shoes and then drove south." Some of the other poems I love are The Wifebeater, Mr. Mine, In the Deep Museum, Killing the Spring, Man and Wife, and Imitations of Drowning. I have always enjoyed her most personal poems such as The Double Image: "I lived like an angry guest/like a partly mended thing/an outgrown child/I remember my mother did her best/she took me to Boston ... Read More

Rating:

- You Wanna Know About Old School Confessional Poetry?
In a nutshell, Anne Sexton is the second coming of Christ...and this is coming from an Atheist...if you dig Kim Addonizio, Maxine Kumin, or Denise Duhamel, pick up this definitive collection of Sexton's work and be prepared to be floored by one of the originators of the confessional school. Long before feminist revisionist mythmaking was a catch-phrase, Sexton was turning the Brothers Grimm on their heads...enjoy.

Books : The Complete Poems: Anne Sexton