TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sexton,Linda Gray
TI  - Searching for Mercy Street: my journey back to my mother, Anne Sexton 
SN  - 9781582437446
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - Berkeley, CA
PB  - Counterpoint
KW  - Sexton, Anne,
KW  - Sexton, Linda Gray,
KW  - Poets, American
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Biography
KW  - Family relationships
KW  - Mothers and daughters
KW  - United States
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Biographies
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-321); The letter -- In exile -- First metaphors -- A maker of myths -- More than myself -- Companionship -- Live or die -- Independence -- The making of a literary executor -- The rowing endeth -- Afterward -- Self-portrait -- Between two worlds -- In search of a biographer -- Call me mother -- Exposures -- On the back of love -- The starting point -- Mercy Street
N2  - An honest, unsparing account of the anguish and fierce love that bound a brilliant, difficult mother and her daughter she left behind when she committed suicide; Linda Gray Sexton's critically acclaimed memoir is an honest, unsparing account of the anguish and fierce love that bound a brilliant, difficult mother and daughter she left behind. Linda Sexton was twenty-one when her mother killed herself, and now she looks back, remembers, and tries to come to terms with her mother's life. Life with Anne was a wild mixture of suicidal depression and manic happiness, inappropriate behavior and midnight trips to the psychiatric ward. Anne taught Linda how to write, how to see, how to imagine--and only Linda could have written a book that captures so vividly the intimate details and lingering emotions of their life together. Searching for Mercy Street speaks to everyone who admires Anne Sexton and to every daughter or son who knows the pain of an imperfect childhood
ER  -