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  • The Poetry of May Sarton Volume One

    Letters from Maine, Inner Landscape, and Halfway to Silence

    by May Sarton ...
    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, she explores the willingness to devote everything to a new love, as well as the despair at the memory of ... Read more

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  • At Seventy

    A Journal

    by May Sarton ...
    Winner of the American Book Award: 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 entertaining guests at her beloved Maine home by the sea. Her reminiscences ... Read more

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  • The Small Room

    A Novel

    by May Sarton ...
    In the hallowed halls of one of New England's most prestigious colleges, a young woman finds new and unexpected life as professor while a scandal brews just on the peripheryOn the train north from New York City, Lucy Winter takes inventory of her life. Twenty-seven and newly single, Lucy is headed toward a fate she never anticipated: professorship at a women's college in New England. Her doctorate ... Read more

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  • Kinds of Love

    A Novel

    by May Sarton ...
    Spending their first winter away from the city, an aging married couple finds renewed friendship and love in the New Hampshire hillsChristina and Cornelius Chapman have spent their summers in Willard for years, shunning the city's hottest months in favor of New Hampshire's rocky, rolling hills. In Willard, Christina looks forward to spending time with Ellen, enjoying forest walks and the easy ... Read more

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  • Crucial Conversations

    A Novel

    by May Sarton ...
    "May Sarton's provocative novel is about a wife who has outgrown her husband, and after twenty-seven years of marriage decides that she has had enough. . . . [Poppy] is altogether believable." — The AtlanticTo their close friend Philip, Poppy and Reed Whitelaw's marriage appears stable and happy. Their ritual Sunday tennis matches and dinners are a highlight of his week, and the Whitelaws' ... Read more

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  • A Reckoning

    A Novel

    by May Sarton ...
    In this poignant novel by a New York Times–bestselling author, a dying woman looks back on the great relationships of her life.When she learns that she is dying, Laura Spelman vows to spend her final year only on what matters most. As she quickly realizes, this means coming to terms with her most fruitful and important bonds—her "real connections"—all of which have been with women. From her ... Read more

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  • The Bridge of Years

    A Novel

    by May Sarton ...
    May Sarton's celebrated novel of family, philosophy, and survival, set between the two great wars that cleaved Europe in twoIn the wake of the First World War, life for the Duchesnes goes on almost as it always has. Situated near a vegetable garden, an orchard, and rolling green pastures, their Belgian estate is one of the few that escaped dereliction in the difficult preceding years.The garden is ... Read more

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  • Faithful Are the Wounds

    A Novel

    by May Sarton ...
    A professor's suicide is the catalyst for this novel about politics and ideals set at Harvard during the 1950sWhen Harvard professor Edward Cavan commits suicide by throwing himself under a subway train, his death sets off shock waves both across campus and in the hearts of his loved ones. To Edward's estranged sister, Isabel, her brother represented the dangers she sought to escape through the ... Read more

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  • Coming into Eighty

    Poems

    by May Sarton ...
    In May Sarton's seventeenth and final collection of poetry, the writer reflects on life, aging, and mortalityComing into Eighty presents a poet's look at age. Herein, Sarton gives readers a glimpse into her quotidian tasks, her memories, her losses, and her triumphs. The volume explores topics ranging from the war in Iraq to the struggle of taking a cat to the vet. Dark and immediate, this work ... Read more

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  • Collected Poems, 1930–1973

    by May Sarton ...
    A splendidly edited anthology of the greatest poems of one of America's finest writersFrom the very beginning of May Sarton's career, in her fiction, memoir, and poetry, her work has been touched by a deep sense of order. The careful structure of her work provides an elegant backdrop against which her emotions are free to unfold, rising up through the cracks and fissures of her poems' architecture ... Read more

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  • Collected Poems, 1930–1993

    by May Sarton ...
    A comprehensive volume collecting May Sarton's poetry from over sixty years of workThis collection spanning six decades exposes the charm and clarity of Sarton's poetry to the fullest. Arranged in chronological order, it follows the transformation of her writing through a wide range of poetic forms and styles. Her poetry meditates on topics including the American landscape, aging, nature, the act ... Read more

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  • Cloud, Stone, Sun, Vine

    Poems Selected and New

    by May Sarton ...
    A beautifully organized collection of a poet's works in homage to natureOne of the primary themes of May Sarton's work, especially in the first few decades of her career as a poet, memoirist, and novelist, is a veneration for and desire to understand nature. This yearning is collected in Cloud, Stone, Sun, Vine, which comprises more than two decades of Sarton's impressive output.The anthology ... Read more

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