The Complete Poems by Sexton, Anne -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Page Title Page A Note on the Text Contents Publisher’s Note How It Was: Maxine Kumin on Anne Sexton To Bedlam and Part Way Back (1960)

You, Doctor Martin Kind Sir: These Woods Torn Down from Glory Daily Music Swims Back to Me The Bells Elizabeth Gone Some Foreign Letters The Kite Said the Poet to the Analyst Venus and the Ark Her Kind The Exorcists Where I Live in This Honorable House of the Laurel Tree Portrait of an Old Woman on the College Tavern Wall The Farmer’s Wife Funnel The Expatriates For Johnny Pole on the Forgotten Beach Unknown Girl in the Maternity Ward What’s That The Moss of His Skin Hutch Noon Walk on the Asylum Lawn Ringing the Bells Lullaby The Lost Ingredient The Road Back The Waiting Head Elegy in the Classroom A Story for Rose on the Midnight Flight to Boston

For John, Who Begs Me Not to Enquire Further The Double Image The Division of Parts

All My Pretty Ones (1962)

The Truth the Dead Know All My Pretty Ones Young Lament To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Triumph The Starry Night Old Dwarf Heart I Remember The Operation

A Curse Against Elegies The Abortion With Mercy for the Greedy For God While Sleeping In the Deep Museum Ghosts

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The Fortress

Old The Hangman Woman with Girdle The House Water Wallflower Housewife Doors, Doors, Doors

Letter Written on a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound From the Garden Love Song for K. Owyne Flight For Eleanor Boylan Talking with God The Black Art Letter Written During a January Northeaster

Live or Die (1966)

Author’s Note And One for My Dame The Sun Flee on Your Donkey Three Green Windows Somewhere in Africa Imitations of Drowning Mother and Jack and the Rain Consorting with Angels The Legend of the One-eyed Man Love Song Man and Wife Those Times … Two Sons To Lose the Earth Sylvia’s Death Protestant Easter For the Year of the Insane Crossing the Atlantic Walking in Paris Menstruation at Forty Christmas Eve KE 6-8018 Wanting to Die The Wedding Night Little Girl, My String Bean, My Lovely Woman A Little Uncomplicated Hymn Your Face on the Dog’s Neck Self in 1958 Suicide Note In the Beach House Cripples and Other Stories Pain for a Daughter The Addict Live

Love Poems (1969)

The Touch The Kiss The Breast The Interrogation of the Man of Many Hearts That Day In Celebration of My Uterus The Nude Swim Song for a Red Nightgown Loving the Killer For My Lover, Returning to His Wife The Break It Is a Spring Afternoon Just Once Again and Again and Again You All Know the Story of the Other Woman Moon Song, Woman Song The Ballad of the Lonely Masturbator Barefoot The Papa and Mama Dance Now Us Mr. Mine Song for a Lady Knee Song Eighteen Days Without You

Transformations (1971)

The Gold Key Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs The White Snake Rumpelstiltskin The Little Peasant Godfather Death Rapunzel Iron Hans Cinderella One-Eye, Two-Eyes, Three-Eyes The Wonderful Musician Red Riding Hood The Maiden Without Hands The Twelve Dancing Princesses The Frog Prince Hansel and Gretel Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty)

The Book of Folly (1972)

I. Thirty Poems

The Ambition Bird The Doctor of the Heart Oh Sweeney Mother and Daughter The Wifebeater The Firebombers The One-Legged Man The Assassin Going Gone Anna Who Was Mad The Hex Dreaming the Breasts The Red Shoes The Other The Silence The Hoarder Killing the Spring The Death of the Fathers

1. Oysters 2. How We Danced 3. The Boat 4. Santa 5. Friends 6. Begat

Angels of the Love Affair

1. Angel of Fire and Genitals 2. Angel of Clean Sheets 3. Angel of Flight and Sleigh Bells 4. Angel of Hope and Calendars 5. Angel of Blizzards and Blackouts 6. Angel of Beach Houses and Picnics,

II. The Jesus Papers

Jesus Suckles Jesus Awake Jesus Asleep Jesus Raises Up the Harlot Jesus Cooks Jesus Summons Forth Jesus Dies Jesus Unborn The Author of the Jesus Papers Speaks

The Death Notebooks (1974)

Gods Making a Living For Mr. Death Who Stands with His Door Open Faustus and I The Death Baby

1. Dreams 2. The By-dee Doll 3. Seven Times 4. Madonna 5. Max 6. Baby

Rats Live on No Evil Star Grandfather, Your Wound Baby Picture The Furies

The Fury of Beautiful Bones The Fury of Hating Eyes The Fury of Guitars and Sopranos The Fury of Earth The Fury of Jewels and Coal The Fury of Cooks The Fury of Cocks The Fury of Abandonment The Fury of Overshoes The Fury of Rain Storms The Fury of Flowers and Worms The Fury of God’s Good-bye The Fury of Sundays The Fury of Sunsets The Fury of Sunrises

Praying on a 707 Clothes Mary’s Song God’s Backside Jesus Walking Hurry Up Please It’s Time O Ye Tongues

First Psalm Second Psalm Third Psalm Fourth Psalm Fifth Psalm Sixth Psalm Seventh Psalm Eighth Psalm Ninth Psalm Tenth Psalm

The Awful Rowing Toward God (1975)

Rowing The Civil War The Children Two Hands The Room of My Life The Witch’s Life The Earth Falls Down Courage Riding the Elevator into the Sky When Man Enters Woman The Fish That Walked The Fallen Angels The Earth After Auschwitz The Poet of Ignorance The Sermon of the Twelve Acknowledgments The Evil Eye The Dead Heart The Play The Sickness Unto Death Locked Doors The Evil Seekers The Wall Is It True? Welcome Morning Jesus, the Actor, Plays the Holy Ghost The God-Monger What the Bird with the Human Head Knew The Fire Thief The Big Heart Words Mothers Doctors Frenzy Snow Small Wire The Saints Come Marching In Not So. Not So. The Rowing Endeth

Posthumously Published Work

45 Mercy Street (1976)

Editor’s Note I. Beginning The Hegira

45 Mercy Street Talking to Sheep The Falling Dolls The Money Swing Food The Child Bearers The Taker The Risk Praying to Big Jack Red Roses The Shout Keeping the City

II. Bestiary U.S.A.

Bat Hog Porcupine Hornet Star-Nosed Mole Snail Lobster Snake Moose Sheep Cockroach Raccoon Seal Earthworm Whale Horse June Bug Gull

III. The Divorce Papers

Where It Was At Back Then The Wedlock Landscape Winter Despair Divorce Waking Alone Bayonet The Wedding Ring Dance When the Glass of My Body Broke The Break Away The Stand-ins The Love Plant Killing the Love The Red Dance The Inventory of Goodbye The Lost Lie End, Middle, Beginning

IV. Eating The Leftovers

Cigarettes and Whiskey and Wild, Wild Women The Passion of the Mad Rabbit The Angel Food Dogs Leaves That talk “Daddy” Warbucks Divorce, Thy Name Is Woman The Fierceness of Female The Big Boots of Pain Demon The Sea Corpse There You Were The Consecrating Mother

Words for Dr. Y. (1978)

Editor’s Note I. Letters To Dr. Y. (1960-1970) II. Poems 1971-1973

Buying the Whore To Like, To Love The Surgeon Speaking Bitterness Telephone Yellow The Death King The Errand The Twelve-Thousand-Day Honeymoon

III. Scorpio, Bad Spider, Die: The Horoscope Poems

Madame Arrives in the Mail January 1st January 19th January 24th February 3rd February 4th February 11th February 17th February 20th February 21st March 4th March 7th May 30th August 8th August 17th

Last Poems

Admonitions to a Special Person In Excelsis Uses As It Was Written Lessons in Hunger Love Letter Written in a Burning Building

Index of Titles About the Author Copyright Page

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