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    <![CDATA[Anne Sexton: A Biography]]>
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    <![CDATA[In this rich and enthralling biography of American confessional poet Sexton, Middlebrook approaches Sexton's life and work with a masterful balance of objectivity and empathy, weaving a compulsively readable tale of Sexton's transformation from housewife to award-winning poet while she battled severe mental illness. Middlebrook's analysis of the relationship of Sexton's illness to her art is rendered more immediate and more powerful by her skillful use of tapes of Sexton's psychotherapy sessions. Avoiding literary and psychoanalytical jargon, Middlebrook judiciously assesses Sexton's work and describes the familial, psychological, and sociological determinants of Sexton's illness, which finally drove her to suicide in 1974. Highly recommended for research collections in literature and women's studies, for collections in psychiatry, and for general readers, even if it were not the only biography of Sexton available.<br/>- Ellen Finnie Duranceau, MIT Lib., Cambridge<br/>Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc]]>
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