Transformations

Name: Transformations
Author: Anne Sexton

by Anne Sexton

Poetry transforming fairy tales into modern explorations of female identity and power

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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.

More by Anne Sexton

To Bedlam and Part Way BackConfessional poetry depicting mental illness, hospitalization, and personal struggle
All My Pretty OnesPoetry about loss, mothers, and transformation drawn from lived experience
Live or DiePoems navigating the boundary between living and dying, hope and despair
Love PoemsCollection of passionate poems exploring desire, sensuality, and romantic love