Contributor
Wagner-Martin, Linda.
Imprint:Boston, MA : G.K. Hall, c1989.
Descriptionix, 254 p. ; 25 cm.
Note:Anne Sexton, poet / Linda Wagner-Martin -- The hungry sheep look up / Neil Myers -- A regime of revelation / Robert Bagg -- Notes, reviews, and speculations / Hal Smith -- Necessity and freedom / A.R. Jones -- O yellow eye / Philip Legler -- Light in a dark journey / Thomas P. McDonnell -- Three women poets / James Tulip -- Review of Transformations / Louis L. Martz -- Transformations / William Pitt Root -- Anne Sexton: self-portrait in poetry and letters / Joyce Carol Oates -- Anne Sexton's rowing toward God / Steven Gould Axelrod -- "That artful rowing" / Katha Pollitt -- Poet of weird abundance [excerpts] / Diane Wood Middlebrook -- The achievement of Anne Sexton / Greg Johnson -- The sacrament of confession / Paul A. Lacey -- The witch's wife: confession and control in the early poetry of Anne Sexton / Jeanne H. Kammer [Neff] -- Embracing life: Anne Sexton's early poems / Cheryl Vossekuil -- "The sack of time": death and time in Anne Sexton's "Some Foreign Letters" / Gwen L. Nage -- Transformations's silencings / Carol Leventen -- Seeking the exit or the home: poetry and salvation in the career of Anne Sexton / Suzanne Juhasz -- 45 Mercy Street and other vacant houses / Linda Wagner-Martin -- "This is my tale which I have told": Anne Sexton as storyteller / Steven E. Colburn -- "I dare to live": the transforming art of Anne Sexton / Rise B. Axelrod -- "What are patterns for?": Anger and polarization in women's poetry [excerpts] / Alicia S. Ostriker -- Mysticism and suicide: Anne Sexton's last poetry / William H. Shurr -- Anne Sexton's suicide poems / Diana Hume George -- What is confessional poetry? [excerpts] / Laurence Lerner -- In memory of Anne Sexton / Kathleen Spivack -- A friendship remembered / Maxine Kumin -- 1957: Anne Sexton's bedlam / Diane Wood Middlebrook.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references.
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