Transformations by Anne Sexton

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Transformations by Anne Sexton

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Transformations by Anne Sexton

The poems collected in this astonishing volume are reenactments, parodies, what Anne Sexton described as transformations, of seventeen Grimm fairy tales. Includes a Foreword by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr and Drawings by Barbara Swan.

Featuring:

  • "Snow White"
  • "Rumpelstiltskin"
  • "Rapunzel"
  • "The Twelve Dancing Princesses"
  • "The Frog Prince"
  • "Red Riding Hood"

"Astonishingly, they are as wholly personal as Anne Sexton's most intimate poems. Her metaphoric strength has never been greater -- really funny, among other things, a dark, dark laughter" -C.K. Williams

"I asked a poet friend one time what it was that poets did, and he thought awhile and then he told me, 'They extend the language.' Anne Sexton does a deeper favor for me: she domesticates my terror, examines it and describes it, teaches it some tricks which will amuse me, then lets it gallop into my forest once more." -- from the foreword by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

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ISBN 13 9780618083435
ISBN 10 061808343X
Title Transformations
Author Anne Sexton
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Houghton Mifflin
Year published 2001-02-15
Number of pages 128
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.