Anne Stevenson
British-American poet who wrote Bitter Fame, the controversial biography of Sylvia Plath, and whose own poetry is formal and intellectually rigorous. She was a close reader of Elizabeth Bishop.
Works
- Living in AmericaPoetry exploring American cultural experience and the immigrant's complex relationship to place
- Enough of GreenPoetry collection examining environment, growth, and limitation through botanical and natural imagery
- The Fiction-MakersPoetry exploring how fiction and narrative shape personal identity and emotional understanding
- Bitter FameCritical biography of Sylvia Plath examining her life, work, and contested literary legacy
- Granny ScarecrowPoetry collection addressing aging and generational memory through domestic and rural observation