Anne Sexton: a biography

List of illustrations --

Foreword / Martin T. Orne --

Preface --

I. Becoming Anne Sexton : 1928-1957 --

Beginnings --

Romance and marriage --

Breaking down --

"These are my people" --

II. Housewife into poet : 1957-1962 --

From rats to star --

Mentors --

Deaths, displacements, and substitutions --

Getting a hearing --

Poetry and the unconscious --

III. The Prizewinner: 1963-1967 --

Circle of women artists --

The Nana-hex --

"Icarus catch" --

"A Seducing sort of woman" --

Money and fame --

IV. The Performer: 1968-1974 --

Anne Sexton and her kind --

Off-broadway with Mercy Street --

"A Middle-aged witch" --

The Professor of poetry --

Awful rowing --

Posthumous performances --

Appendix : Therapy tape --

Sources and notes --

Bibliography --

Acknowledgments --

Index.