The Complete Poems
Anne Sexton
Anne Sexton
A collection of raw and moving poems that delve into the human experience, including themes of joy, anguish, and the inner lives of men and women. This comprehensive book contains ten volumes of verse from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, as well as seven poems from her last years.
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2016-08-17T00:00:00.000Z
Anne Sexton's The Awful Rowing Toward God (in The Complete Poems) shaped my entire internal dialogue about faith and my desire to make sense of the world around me. Sexton captures the loneliness of our internal struggles with even more elegance and pain than Kierkegaard, and the absurdity of our inner life with even more irony and wit than Beckett. The Awful Rowing Toward God is an examination of the deepest corners of the human heart, and I will never forget it. Not a month goes by that I do not recall the last half of "Rowing": – source