Introduction : Anne Sexton, poet / Linda Wagner-Martin --
The hungry sheep look up / Neil Myers --
A regime of revelation / Robert Bagg --
Notes, reviews and speculations / Hal Smith --
Necessity and freedom / A.R. Jones --
O yellow eye / Philip Legler --
Light in a dark journey / Thomas P. McDonnell --
Three women poets / James Tulip --
Review of Transformations / Louis L. Martz --
Transformations / William Pitt Root --
Anne Sexton : self-portrait in poetry and letters / Joyce Carol Oates --
Anne Sexton's rowing toward God / Steven Gould Axelrod --
"That awful rowing" / Katha Pollitt --
Poet of weird abundance [excerpts] / Diane Wood Middlebrook --
The achievement of Anne Sexton / Greg Johnson --
The sacrament of confession / Paul A. Lacey --
The witch's life : confesson and control in the early poetry of Anne Sexton / Jeanne H. Kammer [Neff] --
Embracing life : Anne Sexton's early poems / Cheryl Vossekuil --
"The sack of time" : death and time in Anne Sexton's "Some foreign letters" / Gwen L. Nagel --
Transformations's silencings / Carol Leventen --
Seeking the exit or the home : poetry and salvation in the career of Anne Sexton / Suzanne Juhasz --
45 Mercy Street and other vacant houses / Linda Wagner-Martin --
"This is my tale which I have told" : Anne Sexton as storyteller / Steven E. Colburn --
"I dare to live" : the transforming art of Anne Sexton / Rise B. Axelrod --
"What are patterns for?" : anger and polarization in women's poetry [excerpt] / Alicia S. Ostriker --
Mysticism and suicide : Anne Sexton's last poetry / William H. Shurr --
Anne Sexton's suicide poems / Diana Hume George --
What is confessional poetry? [excerpts] / Laurence Lerner --
In memory of Anne Sexton / Kathleen Spivack --
A friendship remembered / Maxine Kumin --
1957 : Anne Sexton's Bedlam / Diane Wood Middlebrook.
