Selected Poems of Anne Sexton Book

	Introduction
	Chronology
	The Balance Wheel (1958)	3
	An Obsessive Combination of Ontological Inscape, Trickery and Love (1959)	4
	My Friend, My Friend (1959)	5
	You, Doctor Martin	9
	Kind Sir: These Woods	11
	Music Swims Back to Me	12
	Elizabeth Gone	13
	Some Foreign Letters	14
	Said the Poet to the Analyst	17
	Her Kind	18
	Unknown Girl in the Maternity Ward	19
	What's That	21
	The Moss of His Skin	22
	Ringing the Bells	23
	Lullaby	24
	The Lost Ingredient	25
	For John, Who Begs Me Not to Enquire Further	26
	The Double Image	28
	The Division of Parts	35
	The Truth the Dead Know	43
	All My Pretty Ones	44
	Young	46
	Lament	47
	To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Triumph	48
	The Starry Night	49
	Old Dwarf Heart	50
	I Remember	51
	The Operation	52
	The Abortion	56
	With Mercy for the Greedy	57
	In the Deep Museum	59
	The Fortress	61
	Old	63
	Housewife	64
	Letter Written on a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound	65
	For Eleanor Boylan Talking with God	68
	The Black Art	69
	An One for My Dame	73
	Flee on Your Donkey	75
	Somewhere in Africa	82
	Consorting with Angels	83
	The Legend of the One-Eyed Man	85
	Protestant Easter	88
	For the Year of the Insane	91
	Walking in Paris	94
	Menstruation at Forty	96
	Wanting to Die	98
	Little Girl, My Stringbean, My Lovely Woman	100
	Your Face on the Dog's Neck	103
	Self in 1958	106
	In the Beach House	108
	Cripples and Other Stories	109
	Pain for a Daughter	112
	The Addict	114
	Live	116
	The Breast	123
	In Celebration of My Uterus	125
	Loving the Killer	127
	For My Lover, Returning to His Wife	130
	It Is a Spring Afternoon	132
	Just Once	134
	You All Know the Story of the Other Woman	135
	The Ballad of the Lonely Masturbator	136
	The Papa and Mama Dance	138
	Us	140
	Mr. Mine	141
	Song for a Lady	142
	From Eighteen Days Without You	143
	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	149
	Rapunzel	154
	One-Eye, Two-Eyes, Three-Eyes	159
	The Frog Prince	164
	Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty)	169
	Mother and Daughter	177
	Dreaming the Breasts	179
	The Silence	180
	From The Death of the Fathers	182
	Angels of the Love Affair	187
	Jesus Suckles	191
	Jesus Awake	192
	Jesus Asleep	193
	Jesus Raises Up the Harlot	194
	Jesus Cooks	195
	Jesus Summons Forth	196
	Jesus Dies	197
	Jesus Unborn	199
	The Author of the Jesus Papers Speaks	200
	For Mr. Death Who Stands with His Door Open	203
	The Death Baby	205
	From The Furies	210
	Clothes	216
	From O Ye Tongues	218
	Rowing	229
	Riding the Elevator into the Sky	231
	When Man Enters Woman	233
	The Earth	234
	Jesus, the Actor, Plays the Holy Ghost	236
	Frenzy	238
	The God-Monger	239
	Small Wire	241
	The Rowing Endeth	242
	45 Mercy Street (1976)
	The Money Swing	247
	Food	248
	Hornet	249
	Star-Nosed Mole	250
	Whale	251
	Where It Was At Back Then	252
	Divorce, Thy Name Is Woman	253
	The Consecrating Mother	255
	Words for Dr. Y. (1978)	[s.n.]
	[What has it come to, Dr. Y.]	257
	[I called him Comfort]	259
	[It's music you've never heard]	260
	[I'm dreaming the My Lai soldier again]	261
	January 24th	262
	February 3rd	263
	February 21st	264
	In Excelsis	265