Love poems / Anne Sexton ; foreword by Diane Wood Middlebrook.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sexton, Anne, 1928-1974.

Contributor:

Middlebrook, Diane Wood, 1939-2007.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Love poetry, American.

Penn Provenance:

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

Physical Description:

x, 68 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Mariner Books edition.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1999.

Summary:

A collection of twenty-five poems originally published in 1967, in which the author explores the topic of adultery as experienced by an affluent, white Protestant wife.

Contents:

The Touch 1

The Kiss 3

The Breast 4

The Interrogation of the Man of Many Hearts 6

That Day 10

In Celebration of My Uterus 12

The Nude Swim 14

Song for a Red Nightgown 16

Loving the Killer 18

For My Lover, Returning to His Wife 21

The Break 23

It Is a Spring Afternoon 26

Just Once 28

Again and Again and Again 29

You All Know the Story of the Other Woman 30

Moon Song, Woman Song 31

The Ballad of the Lonely Masturbator 33

Barefoot 35

The Papa and Mama Dance 36

Now 38

Us 40

Mr. Mine 41.

Notes:

"A Mariner Book" -- t.p.

Foreword copyrighted 1989.

ISBN:

039595777X

9780395957776

OCLC:

42705028