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Love poems / Anne Sexton ; foreword by Diane Wood Middlebrook.
LIBRA - Special PS3537.E915 L6 1989
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sexton, Anne, 1928-1974
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Love poetry, American.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- x, 68 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [1989?]
- Summary:
- Anne Sexton's Love Poems gave American literature its first fully sexual heroine. The speaker of sexton's poems dwells with husband and children in affluent, white Protestant America just after the death of JFK.
- Contents:
- The touch
- The kiss
- The breast
- The interrogation of the man of many hearts
- That day
- In celebration of my uterus
- The nude swim
- Song for a red nightgown
- Loving the killer
- For my lover, returning to his wife
- The 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
- The ballad of the lonely masturbator
- Barefoot
- The papa and mama dance
- Now
- Us
- Mr. Mine
- Song for a lady
- Knee song
- Eighteen days without you.
- ISBN:
- 0395517605
- 9780395517604
- OCLC:
- 19921691
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