Love Poems [Paperback]

Anne Sexton (Author)

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Publication Date: October 1969

Collection of poems celebrating love and sensuality. The speaker dwells with husband and children in an affluent New England town just after the death of JFK.

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Anne Sexton (1928-1974), the author of ten collections of poems, received the Pulitzer Prize in 1967. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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"The speaker of Sexton's poems dwells with husband and children in affluent, white Protestant America just after the death of JFK . . . More than a century earlier, Hawthorne had created in The Scarlet Letter a sexual female protagonist, Hester Prynne -- to exhibit her leading a life of disgrace at the margins of the town because of her sin of adultery. In Sexton's New England the margins of town have been transformed into suburbia, and adultery looms as the next horizon of sexual destiny, once marriage and childbirth have ripened a woman's body and mapped her pleasure centers. In 1969 this was new; no woman had published such poems in English for centuries." -- from the foreword by Diane Wood Middlebrook

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Product Details

• Paperback: 67 pages
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin; 1st edition (October 1969)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0395081831
• ISBN-13: 978-0395081839
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,504,553 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars number one on the list of this century's greatest poetry, November 26, 1998

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This review is from: Love Poems (Paperback)

although all anne's work has moved me to contemplation (and often tears), love poems has been the most gorgeously presented and emotionally draining collection of poetry any author i have before seen published. i challenge all readers to find a more beautiful reflection of inferior self-perception than in 'for my lover, returning to his wife.' anne's poetry is as once angelic and crude, inspiring a kinship between herself and the reader -- the true mark of a gifted writer.

2 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars IT WAS A INTERESTING TEAR JERKER BUT WAS EXCITING TO, February 6, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Love Poems (Paperback)

I THOUGHT THAT SHE GOT INTO REALISM AND HEART WITH THIS BOOK AND REALLY WROTE ABOUT IT IT WAS ALMOST LIKE SHE LIVED THESE FEELINGS HER SELF I REALLY LOVE HER WRITING AND POETRY SHE MADE ME FEEL THOSE THOUGHTS And feelings i love this writer!!!!!!