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Written & audio book performed by Anne Sexton - Edited by J.D. McClatchy - Unabridged Selections - 1 CASSETTE + companion book containing the text of the poems

Publisher, Random House Audiobooks (April 2000)

The second installment of our exclusive The Voice of the Poet series, comprised of rare archival recordings, some never before released, featuring Anne Sexton.

This audio production is accompanied by a book containing the text to the poems and a commentary by J.D. McClatchy.

About the Poet: Anne Sexton (1928-1974) was a suburban housewife and mother when she began writing poetry in 1956 at her psychiatrist's suggestion to help her recover from a nervous breakdown. Born in Newton, Massachusetts, she stayed near Boston all her life, and from 1969 until her death she taught at Boston University. Her early confessional work and virtuosic craft yielded in later books to a more surrealistic voice, flamboyant and searing, as she continued to explore her abiding subjects - the limits of sanity and the nature and roles of womanhood. Sexton, one of the most distinctive voices of her generation and a figure of real importance in the development of American poetry, was awarded the Pultizer Prize in 1967. She committed suicide in 1974.

J.D. McClatchy is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, and since 1991 has been the editor of The Yale Review. He is the author of four books and poems: Scenes from Another Life, Stars Principal, The Rest of the Way, and The Ten Commandments. He has edited a number of books, including The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry and The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry.