Abstract: In order to understand the literary phenomenon known as Confessional Poetry, this dissertation examines the work of Anne Sexton (1928-1974), regarded as one of the most representative American poets of the second half of the twentieth century.The exploration of this vein or sub-genre, one of the directions taken by the American poetry since 1945, serves as a starting point and pretext for a systematic criticai analysis of Sexton's work, resulting in an annotated anthology of translations of her poerns."Drowning is not so pitiful as the attempt to rise" AnneSexton xi