A selection of poems by contemporary American author Anne Sexton, drawn primarily from eight previously published collections.

"A Mariner book."

The Balance Wheel (1958) -- An Obsessive Combination of Ontological Inscape, Trickery and Love (1959) -- My Friend, My Friend (1959) -- You, Doctor Martin -- Kind Sir: These Woods -- Music Swims Back to Me -- Elizabeth Gone -- Some Foreign Letters -- Said the Poet to the Analyst -- Her Kind -- Unknown Girl in the Maternity Ward -- What's That -- The Moss of His Skin -- Ringing the Bells -- Lullaby -- The Lost Ingredient -- For John, Who Begs Me Not to Enquire Further -- The Double Image -- The Division of Parts -- The Truth the Dead Know -- All My Pretty Ones -- Young -- Lament -- To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Triumph -- The Starry Night -- Old Dwarf Heart -- I Remember -- The Operation -- The Abortion -- With Mercy for the Greedy -- In the Deep Museum -- The Fortress -- Old -- Housewife -- Letter Written on a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound -- For Eleanor Boylan Talking with God -- The Black Art -- An One for My Dame -- Flee on Your Donkey -- Somewhere in Africa -- Consorting with Angels -- The Legend of the One-Eyed Man -- Protestant Easter -- For the Year of the Insane -- Walking in Paris -- Menstruation at Forty -- Wanting to Die -- Little Girl, My Stringbean, My Lovely Woman -- Your Face on the Dog's Neck -- Self in 1958 -- In the Beach House -- Cripples and Other Stories -- Pain for a Daughter -- The Addict -- Live -- The Breast -- In Celebration of My Uterus -- Loving the Killer -- For My Lover, Returning to His Wife -- It Is a Spring Afternoon -- Just Once -- You All Know the Story of the Other Woman -- The Ballad of the Lonely Masturbator -- The Papa and Mama Dance -- Us -- Mr. Mine -- Song for a Lady -- From Eighteen Days Without You -- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs -- Rapunzel -- One-Eye, Two-Eyes, Three-Eyes -- The Frog Prince -- Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty) -- Mother and Daughter -- Dreaming the Breasts -- The Silence -- From The Death of the Fathers -- Angels of the Love Affair -- Jesus Suckles -- Jesus Awake -- Jesus Asleep -- Jesus Raises Up the Harlot -- Jesus Cooks -- Jesus Summons Forth -- Jesus Dies -- Jesus Unborn -- The Author of the Jesus Papers Speaks -- For Mr. Death Who Stands with His Door Open -- The Death Baby -- From The Furies -- Clothes -- From O Ye Tongues -- Rowing -- Riding the Elevator into the Sky -- When Man Enters Woman -- The Earth -- Jesus, the Actor, Plays the Holy Ghost -- Frenzy -- The God-Monger -- Small Wire -- The Rowing Endeth -- 45 Mercy Street (1976) -- The Money Swing -- Food -- Hornet -- Star-Nosed Mole -- Whale -- Where It Was At Back Then -- Divorce, Thy Name Is Woman -- The Consecrating Mother -- Words for Dr. Y. (1978) -- [What has it come to, Dr. Y.] -- [I called him Comfort] -- [It's music you've never heard] -- [I'm dreaming the My Lai soldier again] -- January 24th -- February 3rd -- February 21st -- In Excelsis.