This business of words : reassessing Anne Sexton / edited by Amanda Golden.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Golden, Amanda, 1979- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sexton, Anne, 1928-1974--Criticism and interpretation.

Sexton, Anne.

Sexton, Anne, 1928-1974.

Poets, American--20th century--Criticism and interpretation.

Poets, American.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

x, 279 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, [2016]

Summary:

This book offers fresh perspective on the life and writings of Anne Sexton, one of the most influential American women writers.

Contents:

Introduction: Reassessing Anne Sexton / Amanda Golden

"The house of herself": reading place and space in the poetry of Anne Sexton / Jo Gill

Anne Sexton's photographic self-fashioning / Anita Helle

Anne Sexton's institutional voice / Kamran Javadizadeh

Reading, voice, and performance: "The Freak Show" revisited / Victoria Van Hyning

From the podium to the second row: the vanishing feel of an Anne Sexton reading / Christopher Grobe

"Two Sweet Ladies": Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath's friendship and mutual influence / David Trinidad

Are we fake?: images of Anne Sexton, twentieth-century woman/poet / Kathleen Ossip

The poet has collapsed: coming to terms with Anne Sexton's late poetics and public persona / Jeffery Conway

"The speaker in this case": Anne Sexton as tale-teller in transformations / Jeanne Marie Beaumont

Anne Sexton and the wild animal: an exploration of the bestiary poems / Dorothea Lasky.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813062204

0813062209

OCLC:

945232035