To Bedlam and Part Way Back ( 1960 ).
All My Pretty Ones ( 1962 ).
Live or Die ( 1966 ).
Love Poems ( 1969 ).
Transformations ( 1971 ).
The Book of Folly ( 1972 ).
The Death Notebooks ( 1974 )
The Awful Rowing Toward God ( 1975 ).
45 Mercy Street ( 1976 ).
Anne Sexton: A Self- Portrait in Letters ( 1977 ). Edited by Linda Gray Sexton and Lois Ames.
Words for Dr. Y.: Uncollected Poems with Three Stories ( 1978 ). Edited by Linda Gray Sexton. The stories do not reappear in the Complete Poems .
The Complete Poems ( 1981 ). Foreword by Maxine Kumin.
Selected Poems ( 1988 ).