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Anne Sexton: A Biography

Diane Wood Middlebrook

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Anne Sexton: A Biography

Anne Sexton began writing poetry at the age of twenty-nine to keep from killing herself. She held on to language for dear life and somehow -- in spite of alcoholism and the mental illness that ultimately led her to suicide -- managed to create a body of work that won a Pulitzer Prize and that still sings to thousands of readers. This exemplary biography reconciles the many Anne Sextons: the 1950s housewife; the abused child who became an abusive mother; the seductress; the suicide who carried "kill-me pills" in her handbag the way other women carry lipstick; and the poet who transmuted confession into lasting art.

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Publisher
Boston : Houghton Mifflin
Year
1991
Genre
Biography & Memoir
Topics
Poetry and confessional writingMental illness and suicideFamily trauma and abuse

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