| Author/Contributor(s): | Sexton, Anne; Vonnegut, Jr., Kurt |
| Publisher: | Ecco |
| Date: | 2/15/2001 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
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.