May Sarton

The modern American author describes everyday experiences and conveys her feelings of frustration and anger over her attempts to write in solitude

Journal of a Solitude

This work deals with the typical May Sarton issues of home, finding a place, creativity and establishing good circumstances in which to write.

Plant Dreaming Deep

An old woman, placed in a country nursing home by her brother, struggles to maintain her sanity and dignity by expressing her thoughts in a notebook

A Novel

As We are Now

“In whatever May Sarton writes one can hear the human heart pulsing just below the surface.”—Washington Post Book World

The Fur Person

Kürklü Kişi

Sarton suffered a brutal review of her last novel, personal problems, and a mastectomy in 1979 and this journal reveals how she drew on her inner strength to surmount this series of crises and regain her creative powers

A Journal

Recovering

May Sarton describes her internal and external adjustments to life on the Maine coast, where a deepening sense of solitude and oneness with the sea brought her to new heights of creative passion

The House by the Sea

Journal of a solitude

Anhelo de raíces

Beginning her first teaching job, at a New England women's college, Lucy Winter is embroiled in a scandal that tests the personal and academic lives of teachers and students alike

The Small Room

The distinguished author, critic, poet, and diarist explores the meaning of life at the age of seventy and discusses her work, hopes, and expectations

At Seventy

A striking collection of short poems from acclaimed writer May Sarton After decades of writing flowing lyric verse, May Sarton’s style turned to short bursts of poetry. Likening poetry to gardening, she writes, “Muse, pour strength into my pruning wrist / That I may cut the way toward open space.” These condensed poems are rife with exuberant impressions of nature and of love. Included are two of Sarton’s most acclaimed poems, “Old Lovers at the Ballet” and “Of the Muse.”

Poems

Halfway to Silence

Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing

Fur Person

Diario de una soledad

As We Are Now

Her works ranges from passionately honest diaries like Journal of a Solitude and novels with memorable characters like As We Are Now to superbly crafted lyrical poems and evocative descriptions of nature in poetry and prose. Here for the first time in an anthology of the best of May Sarton's novels, journals, and poetry. The editor, Bradford Dudley Daziel, is chairman of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Westbrook College in Portland, Maine.

Sarton Selected: An Anthology of the Journals, Novels, and Poetry of May Sarton

In this affirmative new journal, May Sarton describes both hardships and joys in the daily round - physical struggles counterbalanced by the satisfactions of friendship, nature, growing fame, and a return to writing poetry. Sarton writes perceptively of how age affects her; the way small things take longer and tire more, how the body often hurts and feels fragile and scared. Other days energy returns, spirits lift, projects abound. She returns to the garden - and her descriptions of flowers have never been more luminous. She savors particular pleasures, from good soup to the friends who come and help keep everything going. At the center is Sarton's pleasure in the celebration of her work and in the knowledge that, without ever telling people what to do, her books have helped people change their lives. She ends with lines from George Herbert: "And now in age I bud again, / After so many deaths I live and write."

A Journal of the Eightieth Year

Encore

For the many thousands of fans who have been nourished by May Sarton's words over the years, this last journal by the beloved Maine poet/writer will be very special. May Sarton died on July 16, 1995, just a few months after she finished this pilgrimage through her 82nd year. Over the two decades since she published Journal of a Solitude, Sarton's journals have been eagerly awaited, markers of daily events, feelings, and responses to the world around her house-by-the-sea. In this last journal, Sarton continues to adjust to the feeling that she is a stranger in the land of old age. And though her struggles and daily setbacks continue, there is an optimistic, musing tone as she contemplates this unique time in a person's life.

At Eighty-two

In the film 'World of Light: A Portrait of Mary Sarton', Mary Sarton responded spontaneously to question about her life and work put to her by Marita Simpson and Martha Wheelock. This book is a transcript from that film with an additional section of her poems and her commentary on each.

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