Mercies - Anne Sexton Signatuur while a sculptor on holiday

while a sculptor on holiday is reunited with the woman who inspired his greatest art in When We Dead Awaken

Samen gaan ze naar huis

Szerb takes us deep into the conflicting desires of marriage and shows how adulthood can reverberate endlessly with the ache of youth

waarin hij de herinneringen aan zijn jeugd in Manosque (Haute Provence) heeft geboekstaafd

Mercies - Anne Sexton Signatuur while a sculptor on holidayWhen Anne Sexton took her own life in October 1974, she left behind a body of work which had already, in less than two decades of writing, won her the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, established her as one of the foremost voices of her generation, and shocked America by breaking multiple taboos of subject matter, from insanity, depression and addiction to menstruation, adultery and the figure of the witch. Sexton's name is legendary. Her poetry is read