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  <title><![CDATA[Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters]]></title>
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  <default_description>An expression of an extraordinary poet's life story in her own words, this book shows Anne Sexton as she really was in private, as she wrote about herself to family, friends, fellow poets, and students. Anne's daughter Linda Gray Sexton and her close confidant Lois Ames have judiciously chosen from among thousands of letters and provided commentary where necessary. Illustrated throughout with candid photographs and memorabilia, the letters -- brilliant, lyrical, caustic, passionate, angry -- are a consistently revealing index to Anne Sexton's quixotic and exuberant personality.</default_description>
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  <read_at>Mon Mar 31 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's difficult to give this book a rating because I couldn't finish reading it!! I tried my utmost and even passed the halfway mark, but her words and her emotions stayed with me and drained me. <br/><br/>In some of the letters you really get to know her as a happy person. Her relationship with th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26278564">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had a severe love/hate relationship with this book.  I was determined to get through it, but prolonged attempts at reading it would usually result in my throwing the book across the room.  Sexton is a tremendous poet, but this collection of her letters brought her lesser qualities into plain view....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1686133">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters by Anne Sexton (2004)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A collection of letters written by Anne Sexton, edited and annotated by her eldest daughter, Linda, and her closest living friend, the poet Maxine Kumin, illustrated with several photographs. While Sexton's poems are often tangled and mysteriously symbolic, her letters are often exuberant, unabashed...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26996871">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an interesting read, but if you are anything like me, you have to take a break from it every now and then or you will feel like you are going a little bit crazy yourself. It is a very intense trip throught the mind of a brilliant albeit very mental unstable woman.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am wary of Linda Gray.  Frieda Hughes is the eminently more trustable of the confessional-poet babies.  ]]></body>
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