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 Prize-winner Live or Die, as well as seven poems form her last years.
Contents......Page 3
How It Was......Page 15
To Bedlam and Part Way Back......Page 31
All My Pretty Ones......Page 75
Live or Die......Page 121
Love Poems......Page 199
Transformations......Page 249
The Book of Folly......Page 325
The Death Notebooks......Page 375
The Awful Rowing Toward God......Page 443
POSTHUMOUSLY PUBLISHED WORK......Page 503
45 Mercy Street......Page 505
Words for Dr. Y.......Page 585
POEMS 1971-1973......Page 609
Last Poems......Page 633
Index of Titles......Page 645