This business of words : reassessing Anne Sexton / edited by Amanda Golden.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Reassessing Anne Sexton / Amanda Golden -- "The house of herself": reading place and space in the poetry of Anne Sexton / Jo Gill -- Anne Sexton's photographic self-fashioning / Anita Helle -- Anne Sexton's institutional voice / Kamran Javadizadeh -- Reading, voice, and performance: "The Freak Show" revisited / Victoria Van Hyning -- From the podium to the second row: the vanishing feel of an Anne Sexton reading / Christopher Grobe -- "Two Sweet Ladies": Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath's friendship and mutual influence / David Trinidad -- Are we fake?: images of Anne Sexton, twentieth-century woman/poet / Kathleen Ossip -- The poet has collapsed: coming to terms with Anne Sexton's late poetics and public persona / Jeffery Conway -- "The speaker in this case": Anne Sexton as tale-teller in transformations / Jeanne Marie Beaumont -- Anne Sexton and the wild animal: an exploration of the bestiary poems / Dorothea Lasky.

This book offers fresh perspective on the life and writings of Anne Sexton, one of the most influential American women writers.

Description based on print version record.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.