Anne Sexton by Diane Wood Middlebrook

Anne Sexton by Diane Wood Middlebrook

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, which was nominated for the National Book Award, provoked controversy for its revelations of infidelity and incest and its use of tapes from Sexton's psychiatric sessions. It 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.

Diane Middlebrook was a biographer, poet, and teacher from the United States. She spent many years at Stanford University teaching feminist studies. Middlebrook is best known for her bestselling Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, and Billy Tipton biographies. In 2007, she passed away.

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ISBN 13	9780395353622
ISBN 10	0395353629
Title	Anne Sexton
Author	Diane Wood Middlebrook
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Houghton Mifflin
Year published	1991-09-16
Number of pages	488
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