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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Middlebrook, Diane Wood, 1939-2007. Anne Sexton. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1991 (OCoLC)645895391 |
| Named Person: | Anne Sexton; Anne Sexton; Anne Sexton |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Diane Wood Middlebrook |
| ISBN: | 0395353629 9780395353622 |
| OCLC Number: | 23582599 |
| Notes: | "A Peter Davison book." |
| Description: | xxiii, 488 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | List of illustrations -- Foreword / Martin T. Orne -- Preface -- I. Becoming Anne Sexton : 1928-1957 -- Beginnings -- Romance and marriage -- Breaking down -- "These are my people" -- II. Housewife into poet : 1957-1962 -- From rats to star -- Mentors -- Deaths, displacements, and substitutions -- Getting a hearing -- Poetry and the unconscious -- III. The Prizewinner: 1963-1967 -- Circle of women artists -- The Nana-hex -- "Icarus catch" -- "A Seducing sort of woman" -- Money and fame -- IV. The Performer: 1968-1974 -- Anne Sexton and her kind -- Off-broadway with Mercy Street -- "A Middle-aged witch" -- The Professor of poetry -- Awful rowing -- Posthumous performances -- Appendix : Therapy tape -- Sources and notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index. |
| Responsibility: | Diane Wood Middlebrook. |
Abstract:
Explores the relationship between the emotional disturbances of poet Anne Sexton and her works.
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