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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
Anne Sexton, who died at forty-five by her own hand in 1974, was, as she herself claimed, "the only confessional poet," and is one of the most widely read poets of recent decades. Her life displayed little to anticipate artistic achievement until after the birth of her second daughter, when she suffered a suicidal breakdown. Her psychic identity was so severely threatened that even psychiatric interventions had little effect, until her therapist...