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| Original Title: | Love Poems |
| ISBN: | 039595777X (ISBN13: 9780395957776) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Anne Sexton
Paperback | Pages: 80 pages Rating: 4.13 | 1622 Users | 101 Reviews
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These poems were remarkably good from one of my favourite poets, it's difficult to pick a favourite, "THE INTERROGATION OF THE MAN OF MANY HEARTS", "FOR MY LOVER, RETURNING TO HIS WIFE", "THE BREAK", "THE BALLAD OF THE LONELY MASTURBATOR", and "Us" (featured below), were probably my top five."I was wrapped in black
fur and white fur and
you undid me and then
you placed me in gold light
and then you crowned me,
while snow fell outside
the door in diagonal darts.
While a ten-inch snow
came down like stars
in small calcium fragments,
we were in our own bodies
(that room that will bury us)
and you were in my body
(that room that will outlive us)
and at first I rubbed your
feet dry with a towel
because I was your slave
and then you called me princess.
Princess!
Oh then
I stood up in my gold skin
and I beat down the psalms
and I beat down the clothes
and you undid the bridle
and you undid the reins
and I undid the buttons,
the bones, the confusions,
the New England postcards,
the January ten o'clock night,
and we rose up like wheat,
acre after acre of gold,
and we harvested,
we harvested."
Describe Containing Books Love Poems
| Title | : | Love Poems |
| Author | : | Anne Sexton |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 80 pages |
| Published | : | October 1st 1999 by Mariner Books (first published 1969) |
| Categories | : | Poetry |
Rating Containing Books Love Poems
Ratings: 4.13 From 1622 Users | 101 ReviewsAppraise Containing Books Love Poems
There are bad poets, good poets, great poets and then there is Anne Sexton slyly rising to the side, above them all. Nonchalantly subversive, her "Love Poems" is both a snub and a continuation of a literary tradition. Who else but the Bostonian bard of witchery housewifery would have thought to versify the intoxications and mortifications that accompany an extramarital affair and then throw the brilliant "Ballad of the Lonely Masturbator" into the mix for good measure? In short, no one. Peerlessin the grand tradition of jane austen, sylvia plath, and anais nin, I have fallne helplessly in love with suburbia once more
One of my favorites. Knife-twisting in your inside-feeling parts. Completely necessary. If I had enough skin I would have "Eighteen Days Without You" tattooed somewhere.
I love her poetry anyway, but this collection just puts it all out there in a way that pushes boundaries even for her. Which, of course, makes the reading all the more interesting.
3.5 Having now read three Sexton's, I find her to be a bit of a hit and miss. The only thing is, when she hits, she hits so damn hard.
Everyone in me is a bird.I am beating my wings.They wanted to cut you outbut they will not.They said you were immeasurably emptybu you are not.They said you were sick unto dyingbut they were wrong.You are winging like a school girl.You are not torn.Sweet weight,in celebration of the woman I amand of the soul of the woman I amand of the central creature and its delightI ding for you. I dare to live.Hello, spirit. Hello, cup.Fasten, cover. Cover that does contain.Hello to the soil of the fields.
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