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No Evil Star: Selected Essays, Interviews, and Prose

by Anne Sexton, Steven E. Colburn · 1985 · 224 pages

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Collects the best of Anne Sexton's memoirs and prose reflections on her development as a poet

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writers
Setting
20th century
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 224 pages
Form
poetryessays

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