Mercy Street
by Anne Sexton

“Anne Sexton, a fine poet with an astounding knack for incorporating the ugly and immediate vocabulary of the pressing workaday world into lyrics that nevertheless remain lyrics, is the author of MERCY STREET… The play is constructed quite literally to resemble the Offertory in Anglican or Roman Catholic mass… Miss Sexton’s initial use of ritual is striking… The exploration, in rotating flashbacks, produces some riveting line-images…”Walter Kerr, The New York Times “…This is Miss Sexton’s first play.

She is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, and the tone of her poems has always been laceratingly personal.

In some she seemed like a latter-day, neurotic Emily Dickinson.

The poems have a voice of their own, and a way with imagery.

MERCY STREET is the story of a woman searching her way home from the valley of madness… Miss Sexton has written a play to be considered rather than dismissed…”Clive Barnes, The New York Times