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Love Poems by Diane Wood Middlebrook, Anne Sexton
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2.5
I fully understand that this is Anne Sexton the legend and that she won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry but this just did not do it for me. II picked this up at the thrift store and I probably never would have read it anyway but it was short so I gave it a shot and I really had a hard time getting through it.
It was really gritty but overly so, kind of a dark love poetry I guess, but had long bumbling metaphors that I didn't connect with and didnt make much sense at all.
As a result, this 67 page book took me almost three days to wade through, and even then I skipped some of the longer poems that I just couldn't understand.
HOWEVER: I did like 3 of the poems - "The Nude Swim" , "For My Lover, Returning to His Wife" , and "Mr. Mine"
Sadly, most likely clearing this one out of my library.
I fully understand that this is Anne Sexton the legend and that she won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry but this just did not do it for me. II picked this up at the thrift store and I probably never would have read it anyway but it was short so I gave it a shot and I really had a hard time getting through it.
It was really gritty but overly so, kind of a dark love poetry I guess, but had long bumbling metaphors that I didn't connect with and didnt make much sense at all.
As a result, this 67 page book took me almost three days to wade through, and even then I skipped some of the longer poems that I just couldn't understand.
HOWEVER: I did like 3 of the poems - "The Nude Swim" , "For My Lover, Returning to His Wife" , and "Mr. Mine"
Sadly, most likely clearing this one out of my library.