Valerie Loveland reviewed Love Poems by Anne Sexton
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5 stars
Anne Sexton was one of the first poets I really got attached to in college. I had my first access to the internet and there weren't very many websites about poets, but there was one about Anne Sexton. It included some of her poems.
I never read through a whole book of Sexton, I only read specific poems. It was great to read through a whole book.
I read about half of the poems before and loved reading them again. I liked the poems best when they weren't in form.
The poems were so full of life and feeling, I felt like I was doing something extravagant by reading this book.
The titles were kind of simple, like "The Kiss" or "The Touch." The line and stanza breaks were mostly orderly.
My favorite poems in the book: (I had no trouble at all finding these poem online. Sexton's poems are …
Anne Sexton was one of the first poets I really got attached to in college. I had my first access to the internet and there weren't very many websites about poets, but there was one about Anne Sexton. It included some of her poems.
I never read through a whole book of Sexton, I only read specific poems. It was great to read through a whole book.
I read about half of the poems before and loved reading them again. I liked the poems best when they weren't in form.
The poems were so full of life and feeling, I felt like I was doing something extravagant by reading this book.
The titles were kind of simple, like "The Kiss" or "The Touch." The line and stanza breaks were mostly orderly.
My favorite poems in the book: (I had no trouble at all finding these poem online. Sexton's poems are everywhere)
To My Lover, Returning to His Wife
The Touch (Middle of the page)
You All Know the Story of the Other Woman
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