To Bedlam and Part Way Back

Name: To Bedlam and Part Way Back
Author: Anne Sexton

by Anne Sexton

Confessional poetry depicting mental illness, hospitalization, and personal struggle

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Anne Sexton

American confessional poet whose To Bedlam and Part Way Back pioneered the use of mental illness and female experience as poetic material. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Live or Die in 1967.

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