Mercies (Poetry)

Mercies (Poetry)
Anne Sexton
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 224pg
27 Aug 2020 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9780241460399
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When Anne Sexton took her own life in October 1974, she left behind a body of work which had already, in less than two decades of writing, won her the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, established her as one of the foremost voices of her generation, and shocked America by breaking multiple taboos of subject matter, from insanity, depression and addiction to menstruation, adultery and the figure of the witch. Sexton' s name is legendary. Her poetry is read around the world, translated into over thirty languages, and in her own country remains a touchstone for poets and readers looking for a rawness of perception, a vitality of expression, and a confessional frankness. Yet, incredibly, there has been no new UK edition of her work for decades. In Mercies, readers are provided with a resonant new selection from the writings of this natural phenomenon of a poet.
Do you know Anne Sexton? I worship her -- Madonna Anne Sexton domesticates my terror, examines it and describes it, teaches it some tricks which will amuse me, then lets it gallop wild in my forest once more . . . God love her -- Kurt Vonnegut In Sexton' s New England . . . adultery looms as the next horizon of sexual destiny, once marriage and childbirth have ripened a woman' s body and mapped her pleasure centers . . . No woman had published such poems in English for centuries -- Diane Wood Middlebrook
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Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780241460399
Published: 27 Aug 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 224

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