Name: transformations
SKU: 1605701
Price: 17.93 EUR
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Author: Anne Sexton

Type

Physical Book

Author

Anne Sexton

Publisher

Ecco Press

Language

English

Pages

128

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.8x13.8x0.8 cm

Weight

0.14 kg.

ISBN

061808343X

ISBN13

9780618083435

Synopsis "transformations"

From Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Anne Sexton, this collection of poem-stories is a strange, wondrous retelling of Grimms' fairy tales. Including "Snow White," "Rumpelstilskin," "Rapunzel," "The Twelve Dancing Princesses," "The Frog Prince," and "Red Riding Hood," these are as wholly personal as Sexton's most intimate poetry. Her raw honesty and wit in the face of psychological pain have touched thousands of readers.

Anne Sexton

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Anne Sexton (1928-1974), one of the most celebrated American poets of the 20th century from her beginnings as a writer, published her first poems in prestigious magazines such as The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, and Saturday Review, and attended John Holmes' literary workshop, where she met Maxine Kumin, with whom she would remain inseparable until the end of her days and with whom she co-wrote four children's books. In another workshop, she came into contact with Sylvia Plath and later directed her own writing workshops at various universities. A figure surrounded by controversy due to her numerous diagnoses of mental illness and her subsequent suicide, she made the female experience the central theme of her poetic work and came to be considered one of the most prominent figures of confessional poetry. During her literary career, she published numerous poetry collections, among which stand out: To the Asylum and Almost Back, Live or Die (for which she won the Pulitzer Prize), Love Poems, Transformations, and The Book of Madness.

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