panI really didn‘t like this entire collection. I had a bad feeling reading the introduction by Vonnegut, and then…yeah. I‘m sure there‘s more to the poems than I got but, no thanks. Not for me.
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panI really didn‘t like this entire collection. I had a bad feeling reading the introduction by Vonnegut, and then…yeah. I‘m sure there‘s more to the poems than I got but, no thanks. Not for me.
#NationalPoetryDay Day 17: My favorite book by Anne Sexton is Transformations. A collection of Brothers Grimm retellings with a feminist edge. Years ago I saw an amazing production that incorporated several into a cohesive play. Incredible. Link to full poem:
https://poets.org/poem/snow-white-and-seven-dwarfs
pickI just got done with Anne Sextons Transformations. These are a solid retelling of those fairy tales and I really enjoyed reading them. I don‘t know if this is her best work but I‘m interested in reading more.
pickThis was my fairytale retelling for #booked2019 and it was an odd mix of modern life and fairytales. I wish I had read it without knowing so much about Anne Sexton‘s life, because that just cast a sad pall over the whole thing. Some of the poems were SO GOOD and others were just meh, but overall I really liked it.
pickA dark collection of feminist poetry reframing fairy tales? Just what I needed today! 💥
My hairstylist sent me these before and after pics. 😎
Not book related, but that's all my hair that got cut off today. Got a pixie undercut. I can't believe I did it.
@DarcysMom posted this some minutes ago....
So great... 😂😂😂
https://www.bustle.com/p/these-parody-book-covers-of-famous-classics-will-make-a...
pickI read this book for my grad class on Feminist Poetics and I loved it so much I had to review it here. I‘m not a huge poetry person, but Sexton‘s retellings of fairytales are engaging and introspective. She pushes the limits of the stories, examining what is often untold. 5/5
I love this illustration of the story of Hansel & Gretel in Anne Sexton's transformations. "Bless this home" indeed.
Jan. 22: Briar Rose (SleepingBeauty) - It's been a long time since I've read Sexton. But this poem was alluded to in The Book of You and so I had to read it. It's utterly haunting. #LitsyPoetry365
From Rumpelstiltskin: "Inside many of us / is a small old man / who wants to get out. / No bigger than a two-year-old / whom you'd call lamb chop / yet this one is old and malformed. / His head is okay / but the rest of him wasn't Sanforized. / He is a monster of despair. / He is all decay. / He speaks up as tiny as an earphone / with Truman's asexual voice... " This collection of #fairytaleretellings is at once seductive and sardonic... magical.
pickSexton is the queen of unassumingly repulsive imagery; each of the pieces in this collection is a peeling back of the fresh paint on fairy tales, a reversion to the grotesque traditional. She makes you feel unsteady and emotionally frayed; Grandma may be the villain and not the wolf.
I try to always be reading at least one book of poetry, maintaining poetry as a cornerstone for my reading life. I'm really looking forward to this Pulitzer Prize Winner. I'm already mesmerized by the cover. If these poems feel anything like that gaze? Well, damn.
