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	Anne Sexton: Telling the Tale Steven E. Colburn, Editor University of Michigan Press, 1988 Library of Congress PS3537.E915Z55 1988 \| Dewey Decimal 811.54 Anne Sexton: Telling the Tale contains some of the best and most representative writing on the life and work of this poet. The volume spans the course of her career from the 1960 publication of To Bedlam and Park Way Back to the works that were published after her death in 1974. Of special interest to the scholar and critic are the studies focusing on the materials, themes, and techniques of Sexton's poetry, especially in relation to those of her predecessors and contemporaries. Expand Description
	No Evil Star: Selected Essays, Interviews, and Prose Anne Sexton University of Michigan Press, 1985 Library of Congress PS3537.E915A6 1985 \| Dewey Decimal 811.54 Collects the best of Anne Sexton's memoirs and prose reflections on her development as a poet Expand Description
	SEXTON: SELECTED CRITICISM Edited by Diana Hume George University of Illinois Press, 1988 Library of Congress PS3537.E915Z87 1988 \| Dewey Decimal 811.54 Anne Sexton (1928-74) was among the most daring of New England's confessional poets. Long after her death, the "confessional" label has prevented readers and critics from appreciating the full range of Sexton's poetic achievement. Sexton: Selected Criticism cracks open the critical bell jar surrounding Sexton to reveal a lively, ongoing conversation among scholars about the enduring popularity and significance of this Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet. Offering original and provocative ways to read her work, sixteen leading authorities on Sexton approach her writing from feminist, psychoanalytic, and biographical perspectives. Expand Description

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3 books about Sexton, Anne

Telling the Tale

Steven E. Colburn, Editor

University of Michigan Press, 1988

Anne Sexton: Telling the Tale contains some of the best and most representative writing on the life and work of this poet. The volume spans the course of her career from the 1960 publication of To Bedlam and Park Way Back to the works that were published after her death in 1974. Of special interest to the scholar and critic are the studies focusing on the materials, themes, and techniques of Sexton's poetry, especially in relation to those of her predecessors and contemporaries.

Selected Essays, Interviews, and Prose

University of Michigan Press, 1985

Collects the best of Anne Sexton's memoirs and prose reflections on her development as a poet

SELECTED CRITICISM

Edited by Diana Hume George

University of Illinois Press, 1988

Anne Sexton (1928-74) was among the most daring of New England's confessional poets. Long after her death, the "confessional" label has prevented readers and critics from appreciating the full range of Sexton's poetic achievement. Sexton: Selected Criticism cracks open the critical bell jar surrounding Sexton to reveal a lively, ongoing conversation among scholars about the enduring popularity and significance of this Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet. Offering original and provocative ways to read her work, sixteen leading authorities on Sexton approach her writing from feminist, psychoanalytic, and biographical perspectives.