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050	0	0	_aPS3537.E915 _bZ775 1991
082	0	0	_a92 SEX
100	1		_aMiddlebrook, Diane Wood
245	1	0	_aAnne Sexton _b: a biography _c/ Diane Wood Middlebrook
260			_aBoston _b: Houghton Mifflin _c, c1991.
300			_axxiii, 488 p. _b: ill. _c; 24 cm.
500			_a"A Peter Davison book."
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 454-459) and index.
520			_aAnne Sexton began writing poetry at the age of twenty-nine to keep from killing herself. She held on to language for dear life and somehow -- in spite of alcoholism and the mental illness that ultimately led her to suicide -- managed to create a body of work that won a Pulitzer Prize and that still sings to thousands of readers. This exemplary biography, which was nominated for the National Book Award, provoked controversy for its revelations of infidelity and incest and its use of tapes from Sexton's psychiatric sessions. It reconciles the many Anne Sextons: the 1950s housewife; the abused child who became an abusive mother; the seductress; the suicide who carried "kill-me pills" in her handbag the way other women carry lipstick; and the poet who transmuted confession into lasting art.
600	1	0	_aSexton, Anne, 1928-1974
650		4	_aPoets, American _y-20th century _v--Biography
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