emmareese's review against another edition
3.0
( 3.5 stars )
this is sad and confusing and i don’t know if i can ever read anne sexton again but she definitely has a way with words.
this is sad and confusing and i don’t know if i can ever read anne sexton again but she definitely has a way with words.
sarahreadsaverylot's review against another edition
4.0
4.5
Perhaps this collection contains the Anne Sexton that is most famous, most adored.
Especially good is her signature juxtaposition of the exquisitely tortuous emotional with the soothingly familiar mundane.
My favourite was The Furies series.
Perhaps this collection contains the Anne Sexton that is most famous, most adored.
Especially good is her signature juxtaposition of the exquisitely tortuous emotional with the soothingly familiar mundane.
My favourite was The Furies series.
davenash's review against another edition
5.0
I enjoyed this better than The Book of Folly and felt it was more transformation and mature than Love Poems or Live or Die.
The Death Note Books ends with a strong string of poems - Jesus Walks, Mary's Song, Hurry Up Please it Time were my three favorite. O Ye Tounges feels like an outro / coda.
Likewise the collection starts with some excellent poems - Gods, Making A Living, and For Mister Death.
"To Pray, Jesus Knew, is to be a man carrying a man"
My favorite line.
The Death Note Books ends with a strong string of poems - Jesus Walks, Mary's Song, Hurry Up Please it Time were my three favorite. O Ye Tounges feels like an outro / coda.
Likewise the collection starts with some excellent poems - Gods, Making A Living, and For Mister Death.
"To Pray, Jesus Knew, is to be a man carrying a man"
My favorite line.
emviolet's review
3.0
There are some moments in this collection that I really love, and other moments where I felt confused. Reading a bit about the author, I think it’s likely she was in a pretty bad place while writing many of these. I’d be interested to learn more about her use of particular imagery (i.e. oranges, dogs, body parts) that comes up often in the collection.
shadowprancer's review
2.0
I read a lot of poetry, but I feel that this collection of Sexton's poems were some of her weakest. Her phrases and word choices were jarring. Maybe they were intentional, but they took me out of her poems and made them a chore to read. I feel she was trying too hard and that often happens when someone writes severely depressed. Only when someone reflects back on depression after they crawl out of that hole, can they truly write objectively about it.
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