Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
Anne Sexton ; Edited and introduced by Diane Wood Middlebrook and Diana Hume George
- Boston Houghton Mifflin Company 1988
- 266 p.
The Balance Wheel (1958) -- An Obsessive Combination of Ontological Inscape, Trickery and Love (1959) -- My Friend, My Friend (1959) -- from To Bedlam and Part Way Back (1960) -- You, Doctor Martin -- Kind Sir: These Woods -- Music Swims Back to Me -- Elizabeth Gone -- Some Foreign Letters -- Said the Poet to the Analyst -- Her Kind -- Unknown Girl in the Maternity Ward -- What's That -- The Moss of His Skin -- Ringing the Bells -- Lullaby -- The Lost Ingredient -- For John, Who Begs Me Not to Enquire Further -- The Double Image -- The Division of Parts -- from All My Pretty Ones (1962) -- The Truth the Dead Know -- All My Pretty Ones -- Young -- Lament -- To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Triumph -- The Starry Night -- Old Dwarf Heart -- I Remember -- The Operation -- The Abortion -- With Mercy for the Greedy -- In the Deep Museum -- The Fortress -- Old -- Housewife -- Letter Written on a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound -- For Eleanor Boylan Talking with God -- The Black Art -- from Live or Die (1966) -- And One for My Dame -- Flee on Your Donkey -- Somewhere in Africa -- Consorting with Angels -- The Legend of the One-Eyed Man -- Protestant Easter -- For the Year of the Insane -- Walking in Paris -- Menstruation at Forty -- Wanting to Die -- Little Girl, My Stringbean, My Lovely Woman -- Your Face on the Dog's Neck -- Self in 1958 -- In the Beach House -- Cripples and Other Stories -- Pain for a Daughter -- The Addict -- Live -- from Love Poems (1969) -- The Breast -- In Celebration of My Uterus.
A selection of poems by contemporary American author Anne Sexton, drawn primarily from eight previously published collections.