To Bedlam and Part Way Back

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To Bedlam and Part Way Back is Anne Sexton’s debut poetry collection, known for its confessional style and exploration of mental illness and personal trauma.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
poetry collection
author Anne Sexton
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
debutWorkOf Anne Sexton
firstEditionFormat print
followedBy All My Pretty Ones
genre American poetry
confessional poetry
hasCreator Anne Sexton
hasPart Flee on Your Donkey
Kind Sir: These Woods
Music Swims Back to Me
The Bells
The Bells of Bedlam
The Death of the Fathers
The Division of Parts
The Division of the Estates
The Double Image
The Expatriates
The Fortress
The Interrogation of the Man of Many Hearts
The Operation
The Road Back
The Road to the Psychiatric Hospital
Unknown Girl in the Maternity Ward
You, Doctor Martin
influencedBy Anne Sexton’s experiences in psychiatric hospitals
language English
literaryForm lyric poetry
literaryMovement Confessional poetry
medium print
notableFor early example of confessional poetry in the United States
publicationYear 1960
publisher Houghton Mifflin
style confessional
subject family relationships
marriage
mental illness
motherhood
personal trauma
psychiatric hospitalization
suicidal ideation
theme alienation
body and illness
family conflict
female experience
identity
institutionalization

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