Criticism

Gallagher, Brian. "The Expanded Use of Simile in Anne Sexton's Transformations." NMAL: Notes on Modern American Literature 3 (1979) Item 20.

Examines the narrative and allusive function of similes in Transformations.

George, Diana Hume. "Anne Sexton's Suicide Poems." Journal of Popular Culture 18, No. 2 (Fall 1984): 17-31.

Explores the articulation of suicidal longing in Sexton's poetry and public disdain for self-inflicted death.

George, Diana Hume. "How We Danced: Anne Sexton on Fathers and Daughters." Women's Studies 12, No. 2 (1986): 179-202.

Offers a psychoanalytic reading of family dynamics and father-daughter relationships in Sexton's poetry.

Locke, Maryel F. "Anne Sexton Remembered." In Rossetti to Sexton: Six Women Poets at Texas, edited by Dave Oliphant, pp. 155-63. Austin: University of Texas at Austin, 1992.

Offers personal reflection upon the life, work, and death of Sexton.

Nichols, Kathleen L. "The Hungry Beast Rowing Toward God: Anne Sexton's Later Religious Poetry." NMAL: Notes on Modern American Literature 3 (1979): Item 21.

Discusses the significance of Christian themes and the journey motif in The Awful Rowing Toward God.

Skorczewski, Dawn. "What Prison Is This? Literary Critics Cover Incest in Anne Sexton's 'Briar Rose.'" Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 21, No. 2 (Winter 1996): 309-42.

Examines critical response to father-daughter incest portrayed in "Briar Rose."

Interviews

Fitzgerald, Gregory. "The Choir from the Soul: A Conversation with Anne Sexton." Massachusetts Review 19 (1978): 69-88.

Sexton discusses her poetry, literary influences, and artistic development.