In April 2017, the New York Public Library hosted this roundtable discussion featuring contributors to This Business of Words: Reassessing Anne Sexton and moderated by editor Amanda Golden. One of America’s most influential women writers, Anne Sexton has long been overshadowed by fellow confessional poets Sylvia Plath and Robert Lowell and is seldom featured in … Continue reading Discussing Anne Sexton: An NYPL Roundtable and Excerpt from “This Business of Words”
Modernist Studies Association 2016
UPF recently traveled to the West Coast to attend the 2016 Modernist Studies Association conference in beautiful Pasadena, California! We had a wonderful time exhibiting our books in modernist literature and had the chance to mingle with scholars in the field. We saw some of our authors at the conference, including Amanda Golden, editor of This Business of Words: Reassessing … Continue reading Modernist Studies Association 2016
This Business of Words
"Readers of Sexton's poetry have been waiting more than twenty years for a collection of essays like this."--Dawn M. Skorczewski, author of An Accident of Hope: The Therapy Tapes of Anne Sexton "An important collection of new critical views. Draws from a range of critics, as well as poets, to assess why Sexton's work remains … Continue reading This Business of Words
The Florida Bookshelf 