Books

First edition, first printing, of the author's first book of poems, which established her, alongside her fellow Bostonians Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath, as one of the pioneers of confessional poetry. Octavo. Original black quarter cloth, spine lettered in silver, blue boards, black endpapers, top edge purple. With dust jacket. Hint of rubbing to unclipped jacket, else remarkably sharp: a fine copy in like dust jacket.

Anne Sexton's debut poetry collection, reflecting on her struggles with mental illness and her stay in a psychiatric hospital. This book is considered a significant work of confessional poetry.