May Sarton: 47 books
May Sarton
A Self-Portrait
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
This transcript from the film World of Light: A Portrait of May Sarton illuminates the life and writing of the poet while celebrating the joys of creativity, love, and solitude
In June of 1979, May Sarton answered the questions of two filmmakers and read to them from her poetry. This four-day...
by May Sarton
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
The comprehensive collection detailing the career of a twentieth-century master
In her prolific six-decade career, May Sarton was as at home crafting a novel as she was writing a memoir. However, it was in poetry that Sarton’s feelings were laid bare. She was a writer of immense creativity...
The Journals of May Sarton Volume One
Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Now in one volume: Three exquisite meditations on nature, healing, and the pleasures of the solitary life from a New York Times**–bestselling author.**
In a long life spent recording her personal observations, poet, novelist, and memoirist May Sarton redefined the journal as a literary form....
by May Sarton
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
The poet and author’s “beautiful . . . wise and warm” journal of time spent in her New Hampshire home alone with her garden, her books, the seasons, and herself (Eugenia Thornton, Cleveland Plain Dealer).
“Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.” —May...
The Poetry of May Sarton Volume One
Letters from Maine, Inner Landscape, and Halfway to Silence
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
Three celebrated volumes of verse from a feminist icon, poet, and author of the groundbreaking novel Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing.
Letters from Maine: A rugged coastline provides a stark background for Sarton’s images of a tragically brief love. With vulnerability and emotional depth,...
A World of Light
Portraits and Celebrations
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
**This captivating book by May Sarton rejoices in friendship and family **
In A World of Light, renowned poet and novelist May Sarton renders unforgettable portraits of the friends she considers family—and the family she looks upon as friends. From her father, famed science historian George...
The Novels of May Sarton Volume One
Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing, A Shower of Summer Days, and The Magnificent Spinster
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Three luminous novels from a New York Times–bestselling author and National Book Award finalist whose “prose leaves compelling echoes in one’s mind” (The New York Times Book Review).
Throughout her long and acclaimed career, May Sarton refused to be categorized. As a memoirist, poet,...
After the Stroke
A Journal
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
The bestselling feminist author’s “lyrical, candid, sensitive” account of her efforts to regain her health, art, and sense of self after a stroke (Publishers Weekly).
Feeling cut off and isolated—from herself most of all—after suffering a stroke at age 73, May Sarton began a journal...
Endgame
A Journal of the Seventy-Ninth Year
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
“A testament to the joys of nature from a courageous and loving woman . . . her cats, birds, garden and visitors keep her ecstatically anchored in life” (Publishers Weekly).
“I always imagined a journal that would take me through my seventy-ninth year,” May Sarton writes, “the doors...
by May Sarton
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
May Sarton’s lifetime of work as a poet, novelist, and essayist inform these illuminating reflections on the creative life
In “The Book of Babylon,” May Sarton remarks that she is not a critic—except of her own work. The essay addresses questions that have haunted Sarton’s own creative...
The House by the Sea
A Journal
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
The author and poet’s graceful elegy about life, love, work, and growing older: “The most moving and the most thoughtful [of her] journal-memoirs” (The Plain Dealer, Cleveland).
When May Sarton uprooted her life after fifteen years in the refurbished New Hampshire house with the garden...
Encore
A Journal of the Eightieth Year
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
The bestselling author and newly minted octogenarian “demonstrates that old age can be a vibrant and liberating experience . . . fearless and triumphant” (Publishers Weekly).
On the second day of her 80th year, May Sarton began a new journal. She wrote it because she wanted “to go on...
The Lion and the Rose
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
May Sarton’s poetic celebrations of the American landscape
Written in Santa Fe, New Mexico, May Sarton’s third collection of poems takes inspiration from the land, the light, and the palette of the American Southwest. With archaeological precision, Sarton uncovers American history and heredity....
At Seventy
A Journal
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
May Sarton’s honest and engrossing journal of her seventieth year, spent living and working on the Maine coast
May Sarton’s journals are a captivating look at a rich artistic life. In this, her ode to aging, she savors the daily pleasures of tending to her garden, caring for her dogs, and...