Love Poems

Twenty-five poems celebrating the sensual frontiers of Sexton's time.

Anne Sexton's Love Poems gave American literature its first fully sexual heroine. The speaker of Sexton's poems dwells with husband and children in affluent, white Protestant America just after the death of JFK. Her story begins after the fairy-tale ending of 'happily ever after,' in the 'post-pill paradise' of sexual revolution." -- From the Foreword by Diane Wood Middlebroo

Dianne Wood Middlebrook is the author of several volumes of poetry and critism as well as the prizewinning bestseller Anne Sexton: A biography. The recipient of many fellowships and awards, she is a professor of English at Stanford University, where she has also served as the director of the center for research on women. She currently lives in San Francisco.

Anne Sexton (1928-1974), the author of ten collections of poems, received the Pulitzer Prize in 1967.