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Anne Sexton : a biography

Author: Diane Wood Middlebrook
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, ©1991.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:
Explores the relationship between the emotional disturbances of poet Anne Sexton and her works.
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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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