To Bedlam and Part Way Back

This book of poems has the cumulative impact of a good novel. It has the richness variety and compactness of true poetry. It is a book to read and remembered. Sexton is an accomplished lyricist. She can combine the straightforwardness of playing on his speech with the saddle with the control, tight formal structure, and brilliantly effective imagery. But she makes her singular claim on our attention by the fact that she has important things to tell us and tells them dramatically.

• All My Pretty Ones
• Live or Die
• Anne Sexton: A Biography
• The Awful Rowing Toward God
• The Colossus and Other Poems
• The Complete Poems: Anne Sexton
• Love Poems
• Transformations
• Citizen: An American Lyric
• The Death Notebooks