Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
Author of The Complete Poems: Anne Sexton
About the Author
Anne Sexton (1928-1974) is one of the most influential & frequently discussed American poets. She lived all her life in the Boston area. (Publisher Provided) Poet Anne Sexton was born in Newton, Massachusetts in 1928. She attended Garland Junior College for a year and at nineteen, married Alfred show more Muller Sexton II. After the birth of her first daughter in 1953 and her second daughter in 1955, Sexton suffered mental breakdowns, which included attempting suicide on her birthday in 1955. She had been diagnosed with postpartum depression. Both times she was hospitalized at Westwood Lodge and it was there that her doctor got her to pursue her interest in writing poetry. She enrolled in a poetry workshop at the Boston Center for Adult Education in 1957, which is where she met fellow poet, and soon to be close friend, Maxine Kumin. Sexton then wrote "To Bedlam and Part Way Back" (1960), "All My Pretty Ones" (1962), and in 1966, Sexton won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry for "Live or Die." Sexton wrote about controversial subjects, which included abortion and drug addiction. As with many other "confessional" poets, Sexton wrote of emotional anguish which came from her battle with mental illness. In 1974, she lost that battle and committed suicide. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Image credit: Portrait of Anne Sexton by Elsa Dorfman
Works by Anne Sexton
[Two poems] 12 copies
Poesie 5 copies
[Four poems] 4 copies
[Five poems] 3 copies
Poetry of Anne Sexton 3 copies
Poems 2 copies
Six poems 2 copies
More Eggs of Things 2 copies
[Three poems] 2 copies
Words 1 copy
Cinderella 1 copy
With you gone 1 copy
After Auschwitz 1 copy
Wanting to die 1 copy
Music Swims Back to Me 1 copy
Sexton, Anne Archive 1 copy
The Heart of Anne Sexton's Poetry (Boxed Set) : Love Poems/ All My Pretty Ones/ Live or Die (1977) 1 copy
Kilitli Kapılar 1 copy
novembar tela i kalendara 1 copy
Live of Die 1 copy
KİLİTLİ KAPILAR 1 copy
The wedding night 1 copy
The papa and mama dance 1 copy
The touch 1 copy
Four 1 copy
Fluctuations ; Tides 1 copy
Didn't know 1 copy
Dancing the jig 1 copy
The breast 1 copy
The hoarder 1 copy
Bestiary U.S.A. 1 copy
The barfly ought to sing 1 copy
The house 1 copy
Thirty pair of eyes talk 1 copy
Sweeney 1 copy
Spring beach at Truro 1 copy
Somewhere in Africa 1 copy
A small journal 1 copy
Santa 1 copy
Red roses 1 copy
Kind Sir, these woods 1 copy
My friend, my friend : poem 1 copy
Mother and Jack and the rain 1 copy
Love song 1 copy
Late poems 1 copy
Associated Works
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contributor, some editions — 915 copies
Don't Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America and England (1987) — Contributor — 481 copies
From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas 1900-2002 (2002) — Contributor — 172 copies
Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work from Tennyson to Plath (2007) — Contributor — 148 copies
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Contributor — 131 copies
What Did Miss Darrington See? : An Anthology of Feminist Supernatural Fiction (1989) — Contributor — 117 copies
Vampires, Zombies, Werewolves and Ghosts: 25 Classic Stories of the Supernatural (2011) — Contributor — 37 copies
Buzz Words: Poems About Insects (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) (2021) — Contributor — 31 copies
About Women: An Anthology of Contemporary Fiction, Poetry, and Essays (1973) — Contributor — 26 copies
Sunlight on the River: Poems About Paintings, Paintings About Poems (2015) — Contributor — 10 copies
In'hui, No.9 — Contributor — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Other names
- Harvey, Anne Gray (birth name)
- Birthdate
- 1928-11-09
- Date of death
- 1974-10-04
- Burial location
- Forest Hills Cemetery and Crematory, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, USA
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Newton, Massachusetts, USA
- Place of death
- Weston, Massachusetts, USA
- Places of residence
- Newton, Massachusetts, USA
Weston, Massachusetts, USA - Education
- Garland Junior College
Boston University - Occupations
- poet
- Relationships
- Sexton, Linda Gray (daughter)
Kumin, Maxine (friend, collaborator)
Plath, Sylvia (friend)
Lucas, Craig (student) - Awards and honors
- Shelley Memorial Award (1966/1967)
Frost Fellowship to the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference (1959)
Radcliffe Institute Fellowship (1961)
Levinson Prize (1962)
American Academy of Arts and Letters traveling fellowship (1963)
Guggenheim Fellowship (show all 7)
Ford Foundation grants
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Discussions
Anne Sexton in Legacy Libraries (July 2014)
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Statistics
- Works
- 110
- Also by
- 43
- Members
- 5,673
- Popularity
- #4,362
- Rating
- 4.1
- Reviews
- 60
- ISBNs
- 92
- Languages
- 9
- Favorited
- 78
as sheer as a cobweb,
let me open it up
and listen in and scoop out the dark.”
Dark, poetic, and at times humorous retellings of Grimms' Fairytales? We love her, folks.