Anne Sexton's language was simple, domestic; her imagery arresting; her subject matter urgent, shocking and exciting. She wrote about mental breakdown, sex, addiction, abortion - the other side of ordinary life. 'Madness' and its cultural meanings were central to her art as to her life; yet it is a bright, lucid and sane voice that resonates. Sexton's poems are accessible, moving and intensely honest. Her poems are brought together here in a diverse and powerful anthology spanning fifteen years of uninhibited writing.
- ISBN10 0395445957
- ISBN13 9780395445952
- Publish Date 1 November 1988 (first published 27 April 1988)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 December 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Houghton Mifflin
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 266
- Language English