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  <title><![CDATA[The Awful Rowing Toward God]]></title>
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    <body><![CDATA[Anne Sexton addresses the questions of Who is God? and Who are we in relation to God? in these poems full of honest searching. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this book is the closest thing i have had to a spiritual experience in quite some time.  read it read it read it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I actually read this in paperback, but it's nice to see the picture.  :)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this in high school--made sort of an independent study out of it. There's so much here in the way of imagery that appeals to a young woman who can relate to feelings of depression and alienation. <br/>There's something about Sexton's work that makes me cringe...to this day reading some parti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7750317">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Her poetry is very simple in words, but her emotions and ideas that she weaves into those simple words are amazing. I think knowing her history, about who she was as a person, has really helped me to understand why she wrote some of the poetry in this book. My favorite poems so far are, After Auschw...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6627756">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this book is the literary equivalent of &quot;from a basement on the hill&quot; by elliot smith, a devastating collection of ideas by a person about to commit suicide.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A- I really like Anne Sexton's poetry and can't believe I haven't read her before; her poems are rich and deep yet lyrical.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Poems with teeth and claws and ovaries and all the rest. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My copy is well worn.  ]]></body>
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