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Transformations
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Publisher Price: $15.99
ISBN13: 9780618083435
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: Feb 15 2001
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.33 Width: 5.44 Depth: 8.19
Language: English
The poems collected in this astonishing volume are reenactments, parodies, what Anne Sexton described as transformations, of seventeen Grimm fairy tales. Includes a Foreword by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr and Drawings by Barbara Swan.
Featuring:
- Snow White
- Rumpelstiltskin
- Rapunzel
- The Twelve Dancing Princesses
- The Frog Prince
- Red Riding Hood
Astonishingly, they are as wholly personal as Anne Sexton's most intimate poems. Her metaphoric strength has never been greater -- really funny, among other things, a dark, dark laughter -C.K. Williams
I asked a poet friend one time what it was that poets did, and he thought awhile and then he told me, 'They extend the language.' Anne Sexton does a deeper favor for me: she domesticates my terror, examines it and describes it, teaches it some tricks which will amuse me, then lets it gallop into my forest once more. -- from the foreword by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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