An Anne Sexton Bibliography
Prepared by Jeremiah Gilbert
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PRIMARY WORKS
Poetry
To Bedlam and Part Way Back. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1960.
All My Pretty Ones. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1962.
Selected Poems. London: Oxford University Press, 1964. (Poems selected by Sexton
from Bedlam and All My Pretty
Ones)
Live or Die. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1966; London: Oxford University Press,
1967.
Poems (with Thomas Kinsella and Douglas Livingstone). London: Oxford University
Press, 1968.
Love Poems. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1969; London: Oxford University Press,
1969.
Transformations. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1971; London: Oxford University
Press, 1972.
The Book of Folly. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1972; London: Chatto and Windus,
1974. (Poems and stories)
The Death Notebooks. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1974; London: Chatto and
Windus, 1975.
The Awful Rowing Toward God. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1975; London: Chatto
and Windus, 1977.
45 Mercy Street. Edited by Linda Gray Sexton. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1976;
London: Martin Secker and
Warburg, 1977.
Words for Dr. Y.: Uncollected Poems with Three Stories. Edited by Linda Gray
Sexton. Boston: Houghton Mifflin
Co., 1978.
The Complete Poems. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1981.
Selected Poems of Anne Sexton. Edited by Diane Wood Middlebrook and Diana Hume
George. Boston: Houghton
Mifflin Co., 1988.
Limited Editions
Transformations. Limited to 500 copies, slipcased, signed by the author. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin Co., 1971.
The Book of Folly. Limited to 500 copies, slipcased, signed by the author.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1972.
Children's Books (Co-authored with Maxine Kumin)
Eggs of Things. New York: Putnam, 1963.
More Eggs of Things. New York: Putnam, 1964.
Joey and the Birthday Present. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971.
The Wizard's Tears. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975.
Nonfiction
Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters. Edited by Linda Gray Sexton and Lois
Ames. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.,
1979.
No Evil Star: Selected Essays, Interviews and Prose. Edited by Stephen E.
Colburn. Ann Arbor: University of
Michigan Press, 1985.
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