Live or Die

About this book

The Pulitzer Prize-winning Live or Die includes many of Sexton's most well-known poems, including "Little Girl, My String Bean, My Lovely Woman," and "Wanting to Die," and "Sylvia’s Death," in which she writes to Plath: "Thief!--/how did you crawl into/ crawl down alone/into the death I wanted so badly and for so long."Live or Die, is a fictionalized memoir of her recovery from mental illness. Each poem is dated as she moves from the opening lines of "And One for My Dame," to the closing lines o