The poems collected in this astonishing volume are reenactments, parodies, what Anne Sexton described as transformations, of seventeen Grimm fairy tales. Includes a Foreword by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr and Drawings by Barbara Swan.

Featuring:

* "Snow White"
* "Rumpelstiltskin"
* "Rapunzel"
* "The Twelve Dancing Princesses"
* "The Frog Prince"
* "Red Riding Hood"

"Astonishingly, they are as wholly personal as Anne Sexton's most intimate poems. Her metaphoric strength has never been greater -- really funny, among other things, a dark, dark laughter" -C.K. Williams

"I asked a poet friend one time what it was that poets did, and he thought awhile and then he told me, 'They extend the language.' Anne Sexton does a deeper favor for me: she domesticates my terror, examines it and describes it, teaches it some tricks which will amuse me, then lets it gallop into my forest once more." — from the foreword by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

DETAILS: • Author: Anne Sexton • Publisher: Mariner Books • Format: Paperback • ISBN: 9780618083435 • Ships direct from distributor in 3–7 business days