With simple, forceful imagery, Anne Sexton's poetry is not only remarkably powerful but also very accessible. The subjects she writes about -- sex, mental breakdown, the search for spiritual meaning, and the dark side of Suburban Life -- speak to reader's today as eloquently as they did during her lifetime.

Anne Sexton was born in 1928 and lived all her life in the Boston area. In 1967 she received the Pulitzer Prize. She committed suicide in 1974

Introduction	p. xi
Chronology	p. xxiv
Early Poems
The Balance Wheel (1958)	p. 3
An Obsessive Combination of Ontological Inscape, Trickery and Love (1959)	p. 4
My Friend, My Friend (1959)	p. 5
from To Bedlam and Part Way Back (1960)
You, Doctor Martin	p. 9
Kind Sir: These Woods	p. 11
Music Swims Back to Me	p. 12
Elizabeth Gone	p. 13
Some Foreign Letters	p. 14
Said the Poet to the Analyst	p. 17
Her Kind	p. 18
Unknown Girl in the Maternity Ward	p. 19
What's That	p. 21
The Moss of His Skin	p. 22
Ringing the Bells	p. 23
Lullaby	p. 24
The Lost Ingredient	p. 25
For John, Who Begs Me Not to Enquire Further	p. 26
The Double Image	p. 28
The Division of Parts	p. 35
from All My Pretty Ones (1962)
The Truth the Dead Know	p. 43
All My Pretty Ones	p. 44
Young	p. 46
Lament	p. 47
To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Triumph	p. 48
The Starry Night	p. 49
Old Dwarf Heart	p. 50
I Remember	p. 51
The Operation	p. 52
The Abortion	p. 56
With Mercy for the Greedy	p. 57
In the Deep Museum	p. 59
The Fortress	p. 61
Old	p. 63
Housewife	p. 64
Letter Written on a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound	p. 65
For Eleanor Boylan Talking with God	p. 68
The Black Art	p. 69
from Live or Die (1966)
And One for My Dame	p. 73
Flee on Your Donkey	p. 75
Somewhere in Africa	p. 82
Consorting with Angels	p. 83
The Legend of the One-Eyed Man	p. 85
Protestant Easter	p. 88
For the Year of the Insane	p. 91
Walking in Paris	p. 94
Menstruation at Forty	p. 96
Wanting to Die	p. 98
Little Girl, My Stringbean, My Lovely Woman	p. 100
Your Face on the Dog's Neck	p. 103
Self in 1958	p. 106
In the Beach House	p. 108
Cripples and Other Stories	p. 109
Pain for a Daughter	p. 112
The Addict	p. 114
Live	p. 116
from Love Poems (1969)
The Breast	p. 123
In Celebration of My Uterus	p. 125
Loving the Killer	p. 127
For My Lover, Returning to His Wife	p. 130
It Is a Spring Afternoon	p. 132
Just Once	p. 134
You All Know the Story of the Other Woman	p. 135
The Ballad of the Lonely Masturbator	p. 136
The Papa and Mama Dance	p. 138
Us	p. 140
Mr. Mine	p. 141
Song for a Lady	p. 142
from Eighteen Days Without You	p. 143
December 2
December 11
December 18
from Transformations (1971)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	p. 149
Rapunzel	p. 154
One-Eye, Two-Eyes, Three-Eyes	p. 159
The Frog Prince	p. 164
Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty)	p. 169
from The Book of Folly (1972)
from Thirty Poems
Mother and Daughter	p. 177
Dreaming the Breasts	p. 179
The Silence	p. 180
from The Death of the Fathers	p. 182
Oysters
How We Danced
The Boat
Santa
Angels of the Love Affair	p. 187
Angel of Fire and Genitals
Angel of Clean Sheets
Angel of Flight and Sleigh Bells
Angel of Hope and Calendars
Angel of Blizzards and Blackouts
Angel of Beach Houses and Picnics
from The Jesus Papers
Jesus Suckles	p. 191
Jesus Awake	p. 192
Jesus Asleep	p. 193
Jesus Raises Up the Harlot	p. 194
Jesus Cooks	p. 195
Jesus Summons Forth	p. 196
Jesus Dies	p. 197
Jesus Unborn	p. 199
The Author of the Jesus Papers Speaks	p. 200
from The Death Notebooks (1974)
For Mr. Death Who Stands with His Door Open	p. 203
The Death Baby	p. 205
Dreams
The Dy-dee Doll
Seven Times
Madonna
Max
Baby
from The Furies	p. 210
The Fury of Beautiful Bones
The Fury of Guitars and Sopranos
The Fury of Cooks
The Fury of Cocks
The Fury of Sunsets
The Fury of Sunrises
Clothes	p. 216
from O Ye Tongues	p. 218
First Psalm
Fourth Psalm
Eighth Psalm
Tenth Psalm
from The Awful Rowing Toward God (1975)
Rowing	p. 229
Riding the Elevator into the Sky	p. 231
When Man Enters Woman	p. 233
The Earth	p. 234
Jesus, the Actor, Plays the Holy Ghost	p. 236
Frenzy	p. 238
The God-Monger	p. 239
Small Wire	p. 241
The Rowing Endeth	p. 242
Posthumously Published Work
45 Mercy Street (1976)
from Beginning the Hegira
The Money Swing	p. 247
Food	p. 248
from Bestiary U.S.A.
Hornet	p. 249
Star-Nosed Mole	p. 250
Whale	p. 251
from The Divorce Papers
Where It Was At Back Then	p. 252
from Eating the Leftovers
Divorce, Thy Name Is Woman	p. 253
The Consecrating Mother	p. 255
Words for Dr. Y. (1978)
from Letters to Dr. Y.
[What has it come to, Dr. Y.]	p. 257
[I called him Comfort]	p. 259
[It's music you've never heard]	p. 260
[I'm dreaming the My Lai soldier again]	p. 261
from Scorpio, Bad Spider, Die: The Horoscope Poems
January 24th	p. 262
February 3rd	p. 263
February 21st	p. 264
from Last Poems
In Excelsis	p. 265
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