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Pure lyric poems come rarely in any poet's life. When they do, the must be treasured as gifts from the White Goddess, "sister of the mirage and echo." To May Sarton, poetry was life's deepest creative passion. It reflected the preoccupations of her mind and emotions as she progressed through more than five decades of experiencing the natural world, love and friendship, and the more..

In this collection, May Sarton takes on the subject of herself in old age. Here are her observations and reflections both on daily events and on the larger questions of life and death, the difficulties and rewards of living alone. Her many fans will find Sarton as celebratory and fresh as ever. more..

How the author's friendships, her love of the natural world, and her growing audience of devoted readers brought light to the shadows of her depression forms the themes of this journal. more..

A collection of poetry by the author of Endgame: A Journal of the Seventy-ninth Year and Among the Usual Days celebrates sixty years of creative output with poems culled from Sarton's thirteen previous books. more..

"May Sarton conducts us on a small, sophisticated, elegantly sentimental journey through a New Hampshire village summer. Our companions are an aging poet, who is sad because he can no longer write . . . and a young, mischievous female donkey who . . . has a touch of arthritis. . . . There is a moral, of course . . . and . . . the story include(s) two cats and as many human beings as are more..

Like many other women, Connecticut photographer Edith Royce Schade first discovered the writing of May Sarton in the early seventies. This beautiful gift book offers readers an extrordinary photographic "feast" and an opportunity to drink deeply From May Sarton's Well. more..

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A rich correspondence illuminating the latter half of the life of one of America's most beloved authors. In May Sarton: Selected Letters, 1955-1995 two hundred annotated letters chronicle the mature life of a legendary poet and novelist. A friend to Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bowen, Madeleine L'Engle, and Marianne Moore, May Sarton was a commanding presence, a figure somehow larger than life more..

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