Anne Sexton (1928–1974) is celebrated alongside confessional poets Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, and W. D. Snodgrass, who gave her “permission” to express highly personal themes of depression, suicidal impulses, and the intimate details of her life. In 1967 she received the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her book Live or Die. Other works include To Bedlam and Part Way Back, Love Poems, and Transformations—retellings of Grimm’s fairy tales—her most feminist work. Sexton suffered from severe mental illness and died by her own hand of carbon monoxide poisoning.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- The Truth the Dead Know, poetry, in Spring 2017