Mercies : Selected Poems by Anne Sexton

Mercies : Selected Poems by Anne SextonThe ground breaking work of the poet who paved the way for generations of women writers, in a new selection by her daugher and literary executor, Linda Gray SextonWhen Anne Sexton took her own life in October 1974, she left behind a body of work which had already, in less than two decades of writing, won her the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, established her as one of the foremost voices of her generation, and shocked America by breaking multiple taboos

When nine year old Swiv is kicked out of school for fighting

based on the Gospel stories

Tell Me the Truth About Loss documents a psychologist's journey through loss

A rare climatic event has brought frost to July

And when Ann makes a shocking discovery in the Banyan House's attic

Banned in the US and the UK for more than thirty years because it was considered pornographic

POTENT AND UNCANNY

charismatic illustrations take readers on a journey to a place of happiness and calm

reuniting with her first love

'is to sing your own song'

When her short story The Lottery was first published in The New Yorker in 1948

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