Many of us approach poetry warily, unsure how to go about reading a poem with the proper kind of attention. Worlds into Worlds is an informal companion for poetry reading―a resource of information, observations, and interpretations. Diane Wood Middlebrook draws on her experience as both teacher and poet to show us how to read even difficult modern poems with pleasure. She analyzes the work of a number of poets and also discusses some of her own poems, showing how the creative process unfolds.

Worlds into Words: Understanding Modern Poems (Norton Paperback)

Literature & Fiction

MIDDLEBROOK, Diane Wood

History & Criticism

W.W.Norton&Company

Anne Sexton: A Biography

A biography of Anne Sexton explores the work and the tormented emotional life of the powerful American poet, a woman who struggled with mental illness throughout her career, finally taking her own life in 1974

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Houghton/Mifflin

Selected Poems of Anne Sexton, Love Poems, Anne Sexton, a Biography

Poems deal with divorce, marriage, parenthood, animals, dreams, music, religion, death, love, and the imagination

Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

SEXTON, Anne

George, Diana Hume

Poetry

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

The acclaimed author of Anne Sexton: A Biography, a nominee for the National Book Awards, tells the remarkable story of Billy Tipton, a female jazz musician who lived as a man for nearly fifty years. 40,000 first printing. Tour.

Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton

The jazz pianist Billy Tipton was born in Oklahoma City as Dorothy Tipton, but almost nobody knew the truth until the day he died, in Spokane in 1989. Over a fifty-year performing career, Billy Tipton fooled nearly everyone, including Duke Ellington and Norma Teagarden, five successive "wives" with whom Billy lived as a man, and three children who he "fathered." As Billy Tipton herself said, "Some people might think I'm a freak or a hermaphrodite. I'm not. I'm a normal person. This has been my choice." This jazz-era biography evokes the rich popular-music history of the Great Depression and reads like a detective story.

Humor & Entertainment

Mariner Books

Walt Whitman and Wallace Stevens

Cornell University Press

GIN CONSIDERED AS A DEMON: The Poems of Diane Wood Middlebrook. (Elysian Press poetry series)

Elysian Pr

Anne Sexton : A Biography

Virago Press

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