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This book offers fresh perspective on the life and writings of Anne Sexton, one of the most influential American women writers.

Making extensive use of archival materials by Sylvia Plath, John Berryman, and Anne Sexton, Amanda Golden constructs a new narrative of the relationship between modernism and post-war poetry. While Golden situates her book among other materialist histories of modernism, she moves beyond examination of published works into a material consideration of a diversity of texts, including the poets marginalia and underlining in their personal copies of modernist texts. Her analysis supports her argument that modernism as a discourse emerges after the Second World War. Moving away from the prevailing...

Readers of Sexton s poetry have been waiting more than twenty years for a collection of essays like this. Dawn M. Skorczewski, author of An Accident of Hope: The Therapy Tapes of Anne Sexton
An important collection of new critical views. Draws from a range of critics, as well as poets, to assess why Sexton s work remains viable, forceful, and beloved. Linda Wagner-Martin, author of A History of American Literature: 1950 to the Present
Long overshadowed by fellow confessional poets Sylvia Plath and Robert Lowell, Anne Sexton seldom features in literary criticism,...