Mercies : Selected Poems - Anne Sexton Genre:Poetry by individual poets Dr Johnny Drain has spent

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Mercies : Selected Poems - Anne Sexton Genre:Poetry by individual poets Dr Johnny Drain has spentThe ground breaking work of the poet who paved the way for generations of women writers, in a new selection by her daugher and literary executor, Linda Gray SextonWhen Anne Sexton took her own life in October 1974, she left behind a body of work which had already, in less than two decades of writing, won her the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, established her as one of the foremost voices of her generation, and shocked America by breaking multiple taboos