Amazon recommendation: The Complete Poems: Anne Sexton (paid link)
Anne Sexton : A Biography by Diane Wood Middlebrook - A wonderful book, just, balanced, insightful, complex in its sympathies and in its judgment of Sexton both as a person and as a writer... a deeply moving account."-- The New York Times Book Review. "Judicious and canny. [Middlebrook] appreciates both Sexton's gifts as a poet and her attractive side as a human being...but looks at her destructive weaknesses with a steady eye." -- Time. "Sympathetic but resolutely unsentimental ... intelligent, sensitive, at times harrowing." -- Joyce Carol Oates, Washington Post Book World.
The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton - 45 Mercy Street, The Abortion, The Addict, Admonitions To A Special Person, After Auschwitz, Again And Again And Again, All My Pretty Ones, The Ambition Bird, And One For My Dame, The Angel Food Dogs, Angels Of The Love Affair: 1. Angel Of Clean Sheets, Angels Of The Love Affair: 1. Angel Of Fire And Genitals, Angels Of The Love Affair: 3. Angel Of Flight And Sleigh Bel, Angels Of The Love Affair: 4. Angel Of Hope And Calendars, Angels Of The Love Affair: 5. Angel Of Blizzards And Blackb, Angels Of The Love Affair: 6. Angel Of Beach Houses And Picn, Anna Who Was Mad, The Assassin, August 17th, August 8th, The Author Of The Jesus Papers Speaks, Baby Picture, The Ballad Of The Lonely Masturbator, Bat, Bayonet, The Bells, The Big Boots Of Pain, The Big Heart, The Black Art, The Break, The Break Away, The Breast, Briar Rose (sleeping Beauty), The Child Bearers, The Child Bearers, The Children, Christmas Eve, Cigarettes And Whiskey And Wild, Wild Women, Cinderella, The Civil War, Clothes, Cockroach, The Consecrating Mother, Consorting With Angels, Courage, Cripples And Other Stories, Crossing The Atlantic, A Curse Against Elegies, Daddy Warbucks, The Dead Heart, The Death Baby, The Death King, The Death King, The Death Of The Fathers: 1. Oysters, The Death Of The Fathers: 2. How We Danced, The Death Of The Fathers: 3. The Boat, The Death Of The Fathers: 4. Santa, The Death Of The Fathers: 5. Friends, The Death Of The Fathers: 6. Begat, Demon, Despair, The Division Of Parts, Divorce, Divorce, They Name Is Woman, The Doctor Of The Heart, Doctors, Doors, Doors, Doors: 1. Old Man, Doors, Doors, Doors: 2. Seamstress, Doors, Doors, Doors: 3. Young Girl, The Double Image, Dreaming The Breasts, The Earth, The Earth Falls Down, Earthworm, Eighteen Days Without You, Sels., Elegy In The Classroom, Elizabeth Gone, End, Middle, Beginning, The Errand, The Errand, The Evil Eye, The Evil Seekers, The Expatriates, The Fallen Angels, The Falling Dolls, The Farmer's Wife, Faustus And I, February 11th, February 17th, February 20th, February 21st, February 3rd, February 4th, The Fierceness Of Female, The Fire Thief, The Firebombers, The Fish That Walked, Flee On Your Donkey, Flight, Food, For Eleanor Boylan Talking With God, For God While Sleeping, For John, Who Begs Me Not To Enquire Further, For Johnny Pole On The Forgotten Beach, For Mr. Death Who Stands With His Door Open, For My Lover, Returning To His Wife, For The Year Of The Insane, The Fortress, Frenzy, The Frog Prince, Funnel, Ghoss, God's Backside, The God-monger, Godfather Death, Gods, Going Gone, The Gold Key, Grandfather, Your Wound, Gull, Hansel And Gretel, Her Kind, The Hex, The Hoarder, Hog, Hornet, Horse, The House, Housewife, Hurry Up Please It's Time, I Remember, Imitations Of Drowning, In Celebration Of My Uterus, In Excelsis, In The Beach House, The Interrogation Of The Man Of Many Hearts, The Inventory Of Goodbye, Iron Hans, Is It True?, It Is A Spring Afternoon, January 19th, January 1st, January 1st, January 24th, Jesus Asleep, Jesus Awake, Jesus Cooks, Jesus Dies, Jesus Raises Up The Harlot, Jesus Suckles, Jesus Summons Forth, Jesus Unborn, Jesus Walking, Jesus, The Actor, Plays The Holy Ghost, June Bug, Just Once, Ke 6-8018, Keeping The City, Killing The Love, Killing The Spring, Kind Sir: These Woods, The Kiss, The Kite, Knee Song, Lament, Landscape In Winter, Leaves That Talk, The Legend Of The One-eyed Man, Lessons In Hunger, Letter Written During A January Northeaster, Letter Written On A Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound, Letters To Dr. Y., Little Girl, My String Bean, My Lovely Woman, The Little Peasant, Little Red Riding Hood, A Little Uncomplicated Hymn, Live, Lobster, Locked Doors, The Lost Ingredient, The Lost Lie, Love Letter Written In A Burning Building, The Love Plant, Love Song, Love Song For K. Owyne, Loving The Killer, Lullaby, Madame Arrives In The Mail, The Maiden Without Hands, Making A Living, Man And Wife, March 4th, March 4th, March 7th, Mary's Song, May 30th, Menstruation At Forty, The Money Swing, Moose, The Moss Of His Skin, Mother And Daughter, Mother And Jack And The Rain, Mothers, Mr. Mine, Noon Walk On The Asylum Lawn, Not So. Not So, The Nude Swim, O Ye Tongues, Oh, Old, Old, Old Dwarf Heart, One-eye, Two-eyes, Three-eyes, The One-legged Man, The Operation, The Other, Pain For A Daughter, The Papa And Mama Dance, The Passion Of The Mad Rabbit, The Play, The Poet Of Ignorance, Porcupine, Portrait Of An Old Woman On The College Tavern Wall, Praying On A 707, Praying To Big Jack, Protestant Easter, Raccoon, Rapunzel, Rats Live On No Evil Star, The Red Dance, Red Roses, The Red Shoes, Riding The Elevator Into The Sky, Ringing The Bells, The Risk, The Risk, The Road Back, The Room Of My Life, Rowing, The Rowing Endeth, Rumpelstiltskin, Said The Poet To The Analyst, The Saints Come Marching In, The Sea Corpse, Seal, Self In 1958, The Sermon Of The Twelve Acknowledgments, Sheep, The Shout, The Sickness Unto Death, The Silence, Small Wire, Snail, Snake, Snow, Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs, Some Foreign Letters, Somewhere In Africa, Song For A Lady, Song For A Red Nightgown, Speaking Bitterness, Speaking Bitterness, The Stand-ins, Star-nosed Mole, The Starry Night, A Story For Rose On The Midnight Flight To Boston, Suicide Note, The Sun, The Surgeon, The Surgeon, Sweeney, Sylvia's Death, The Taker, Talking To Sheep, Telephone, Telephone, That Day, There You Were, Those Times, Three Green Windows, To A Friend Whose Work Has Come To Triumph, To Like, To Love, To Like, To Love, To Lose The Earth, Torn Down From Glory Daily, The Touch, The Truth The Dead Know, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, The Twelve-thousand-day Honeymoon, The Twelve-thousand-day Honeymoon, Two Hands, Two Sons, Unknown Girl In The Maternity Ward, Us, Venus And The Ark, The Waiting Head, Waking Alone, Walking In Paris, The Wall, Wallflower, Wanting To Die, Water, The Wedding Night, The Wedding Ring Dance, The Wedlock, Welcome Morning, Whale, What The Bird With The Human Head Knew, What's That, When Man Enters Woman, When The Glass Of My Body Broke, Where I Live In This Honorable House Of The Laurel Tree, Where It Was At Back Then, The White Snake, The Wifebeater, The Witch's Life, With Mercy For The Greedy, Woman With Girdle, The Wonderful Musician, Words, Yellow, Yellow, You All Know The Story Of The Other Woman, You, Doctor Martin, Young and Your Face On The Dog's Neck.
Anne Sexton: The Last Summer - According to those who knew her best, Anne Sexton was always preparing for her death, almost like an Egyptian queen constructing her pyramid. She wanted to create the most poignant version of her life story, which would best serve as her monument after she was gone. She left behind a study filled with her papers, writings, and photographs.
On a photo assignment from Houghton Mifflin, Arthur Furst first met Anne Sexton in April 1974, just two months after she was revived (against her wishes) from a suicide attempt. Welcoming him into her life as a friend, Sexton entrusted Arthur Furst to capture her image over the last months of her life. Undoubtedly, she intended his photographs to become part of her legacy.
Anne Sexton: The Last Summer beautifully juxtaposes Furst's exclusive photos with letters and unpublished drafts of Sexton's poems written during the last months of her life, as well as previously unpublished letters to her daughters, giving unprecedented insight into the life of this legendary poet.