- Published: 27 August 2020
- ISBN: 9780241460399
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 272
- RRP: $32.99
Mercies
Selected Poems
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- Published: 27 August 2020
- ISBN: 9780241460399
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 272
- RRP: $32.99
Anne Sexton domesticates my terror, examines it and describes it, teaches it some tricks which will amuse me, then lets it gallop wild in my forest once more ... God love her
Kurt Vonnegut
Do you know Anne Sexton? I worship her
Madonna
In Sexton's New England ... adultery looms as the next horizon of sexual destiny, once marriage and childbirth have ripened a woman's body and mapped her pleasure centers ... No woman had published such poems in English for centuries
Diane Wood Middlebrook