Selected poems of Anne Sexton / edited with an introduction by Diane Wood Middlebrook and Diana Hume George.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sexton, Anne, 1928-1974.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Middlebrook, Diane Wood, 1939-2007.

George, Diana Hume, 1948-

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxvi, 266 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston, MA : Houghton Mifflin, 2000.

Summary:

This selection, which is drawn from Anne Sexton's ten published volumes of poems as well as from representative early and last work, is an ideal introduction to a great American poet.

Contents:

The Balance Wheel (1958) 3

An Obsessive Combination of Ontological Inscape, Trickery and Love (1959) 4

My Friend, My Friend (1959) 5

from To Bedlam and Part Way Back (1960)

You, Doctor Martin 9

Kind Sir: These Woods 11

Music Swims Back to Me 12

Elizabeth Gone 13

Some Foreign Letters 14

Said the Poet to the Analyst 17

Her Kind 18

Unknown Girl in the Maternity Ward 19

What's That 21

The Moss of His Skin 22

Ringing the Bells 23

Lullaby 24

The Lost Ingredient 25

For John, Who Begs Me Not to Enquire Further 26

The Double Image 28

The Division of Parts 35

from All My Pretty Ones (1962)

The Truth the Dead Know 43

All My Pretty Ones 44

Young 46

Lament 47

To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Triumph 48

The Starry Night 49

Old Dwarf Heart 50

I Remember 51

The Operation 52

The Abortion 56

With Mercy for the Greedy 57

In the Deep Museum 59

The Fortress 61

Old 63

Housewife 64

Letter Written on a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound 65

For Eleanor Boylan Talking with God 68

The Black Art 69

from Live or Die (1966)

And One for My Dame 73

Flee on Your Donkey 75

Somewhere in Africa 82

Consorting with Angels 83

The Legend of the One-Eyed Man 85

Protestant Easter 88

For the Year of the Insane 91

Walking in Paris 94

Menstruation at Forty 96

Wanting to Die 98

Little Girl, My Stringbean, My Lovely Woman 100

Your Face on the Dog's Neck 103

Self in 1958 106

In the Beach House 108

Cripples and Other Stories 109

Pain for a Daughter 112

The Addict 114

Live 116

from Love Poems (1969)

The Breast 123

In Celebration of My Uterus 125

Loving the Killer 127

For My Lover, Returning to His Wife 130

It Is a Spring Afternoon 132

Just Once 134

You All Know the Story of the Other Woman 135

The Ballad of the Lonely Masturbator 136

The Papa and Mama Dance 138

Us 140

Mr. Mine 141

Song for a Lady 142

from Eighteen Days Without You 143

December 2

December 11

December 18

from Transformations (1971)

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 149

Rapunzel 154

One-Eye, Two-Eyes, Three-Eyes 159

The Frog Prince 164

Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty) 169

from The Book of Folly (1972)

from Thirty Poems

Mother and Daughter 177

Dreaming the Breasts 179

The Silence 180

from The Death of the Fathers 182

1. Oysters

2. How We Danced

3. The Boat

4. Santa

Angels of the Love Affair 187

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 191

Jesus Awake 192

Jesus Asleep 193

Jesus Raises Up the Harlot 194

Jesus Cooks 195

Jesus Summons Forth 196

Jesus Dies 197

Jesus Unborn 199

The Author of the Jesus Papers Speaks 200

from The Death Notebooks (1974)

For Mr. Death Who Stands with His Door Open 203

The Death Baby 205

1. Dreams

2. The Dy-dee Doll

3. Seven Times

4. Madonna

5. Max

6. Baby

from The Furies 210

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 216

from O Ye Tongues 218

First Psalm

Fourth Psalm

Eighth Psalm

Tenth Psalm

from The Awful Rowing Toward God (1975)

Rowing 229

Riding the Elevator into the Sky 231

When Man Enters Woman 233

The Earth 234

Jesus, the Actor, Plays the Holy Ghost 236

Frenzy 238

The God-Monger 239

Small Wire 241

The Rowing Endeth 242

Posthumously Published Work

45 Mercy Street (1976)

from Beginning the Hegira

The Money Swing 247

Food 248

from Bestiary U.S.A.

Hornet 249

Star-Nosed Mole 250

Whale 251

from The Divorce Papers

Where It Was At Back Then 252

from Eating the Leftovers

Divorce, Thy Name Is Woman 253

The Consecrating Mother 255

Words for Dr. Y. (1978)

from Letters to Dr. Y.

[What has it come to, Dr. Y.] 257

[I called him Comfort] 259

[It's music you've never heard] 260

[I'm dreaming the My Lai soldier again] 261

from Scorpio, Bad Spider, Die: The Horoscope Poems

January 24th 262

February 3rd 263

February 21st 264

from Last Poems

In Excelsis 265.

Notes:

"A Mariner book."

ISBN:

0618057048

OCLC:

44807859