The Complete Poems
Anne Sexton
by Anne Sexton
Recommended by Susan J. Fowler and Rupi Kaur
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Recommended by 2 sources.
From the joy and anguish of her own experience, Sexton fashioned poems that told truths about the inner lives of men and women. This book comprises Sexton's ten volumes of verse, including the Pulitzer Prizewinner Live or Die, as well as seven poems from her last years....
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Rupi Kaur
“Anne Sexton's The Awful Rowing Toward God (in The Complete Poems) shaped my entire internal dialogue about faith and my desire to make sense of the world around me. Sexton captures the loneliness of our internal struggles with even more elegance and pain than Kierkegaard, and the absurdity of our inner life with even more irony and wit than Beckett. The Awful Rowing Toward God is an examination of the deepest corners of the human heart, and I will never forget it. Not a month goes by that I do not recall the last half of "Rowing":”
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