This business of words : reassessing Anne Sexton / edited by Amanda Golden. - 1 online resource (293 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Reassessing Anne Sexton / Amanda Golden -- "The house of herself": reading place and space in the poetry of Anne Sexton / Jo Gill -- Anne Sexton's photographic self-fashioning / Anita Helle -- Anne Sexton's institutional voice / Kamran Javadizadeh -- Reading, voice, and performance: "The Freak Show" revisited / Victoria Van Hyning -- From the podium to the second row: the vanishing feel of an Anne Sexton reading / Christopher Grobe -- "Two Sweet Ladies": Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath's friendship and mutual influence / David Trinidad -- Are we fake?: images of Anne Sexton, twentieth-century woman/poet / Kathleen Ossip -- The poet has collapsed: coming to terms with Anne Sexton's late poetics and public persona / Jeffery Conway -- "The speaker in this case": Anne Sexton as tale-teller in transformations / Jeanne Marie Beaumont -- Anne Sexton and the wild animal: an exploration of the bestiary poems / Dorothea Lasky.

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

9780813052571


Sexton, Anne, 1928-1974 --Criticism and interpretation.


Poets, American--Criticism and interpretation.--20th century


Electronic books.

PS3537.E915 / Z94 2016

811/.54