anne sexton/john berryman/poetry nerd, what?

[jewelbox21]

i just got 45 Mercy Street from the library the other day, and i'm loving it. can anyone point me to any of her other books?

also, does anyone know if John Berryman's love sonnets are out of print?

[DudeMan]

The only one I have is 'The Complete Poems: Anne Sexton', which as the name would imply has all of her published stuff.

If you like her, you may also like Philip Larkin, whom I've been reading lately since I picked up a good new collection of his stuff called 'Collected Poems' (Anthony Thwaite editor).

For Barryman, I don't know the answer to that one. But, for out of print stuff it's usually worth trying Powells or Alibris.

[thelunarbee]

Anne Sexton's Transformations is awesome. She takes on many well-known fairy tales and puts her spin on them. Very cool, very insightful. I am still crying over the fact that I loaned my copy to someone (with all my cool notes in the margins) and shall never see it again.

[chinaski]

also try amazon.com

you can find just about anything there.

[classicgrrl]

All My Pretty Ones is one of my favs by Sexton. She is right up there for me with Sylvia Plath...