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Anne Sexton (Critical Survey of Poetry)
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In addition to several articles on the craft and teaching of poetry, Anne Sexton wrote a play that ran successfully at the American Place Theatre of New York and several children’s books produced in collaboration with Maxine Kumin. The play, Forty-five Mercy Street (1969), presents the struggle of a woman named Daisy to find meaning in a past and present dominated by religious and sexual conflicts objectified as demons and disembodied voices. Its success suggests that the poet also...
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To Bedlam and Part Way Back (Identities and Issues) -
Wanting to Die (Poetry) -
English and American Poetry in the Twentieth Century (Topical Overview--Poetry) -
Explicating Poetry (Topical Overview--Poetry)
