May Sarton | Poetry Foundation

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May Sarton was a prolific author who was long considered by her very loyal readers to be a gifted and sensitive writer of poetry, novels, and journals. Although at first overlooked by literary critics, in the later part of her career reviewers and feminist academics began …

May Sarton - Poems by the Famous Poet - All Poetry

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In these years, she published her third and fourth novels, Shadow of a Man (1950), and Shower of Summer Days (1952), as well as a volume of poetry, The Land of Silence (1953) which won the Reynolds Lyric …

The Work of Happiness by May Sarton | Poetry Foundation

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No one has heard thought or listened to a mind, But where people have lived in inwardness The air is charged with blessing and does bless; Windows look out on mountains and the …

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For My Mother by May Sarton - Poems | Academy of American …

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May Sarton - 1912-1995 Once more I summon you Out of the past With poignant love, You who nourished the poet And the lover. I see your gray eyes Looking out to sea In those Rockport summers, Keeping a distance …

Now I Become Myself by May Sarton - Famous …

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Now to stand still, to be here, Feel my own weight and density! The black shadow on the paper. Is my hand; the shadow of a word. As thought shapes the shaper. Falls heavy on the page, is heard. All fuses now, falls into …

Now I Become Myself (poem) by May Sarton | LiteraryLadiesGuide

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May Sarton was an American poet, novelist, and memoirist who spent a lifetime learning who she was. In her journals, best known of which are Plant Dreaming Deep and Journal of a Solitude , she …

May Sarton’s Greatest Works: 12 Books That Will Move You

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The poems in this collection are divided into three sections titled, “Letters from Maine,” “A Winter Garland,” and “Letters to Myself.” In these poems, Sarton releases a slew of emotions that are …

About May Sarton | Academy of American Poets

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In 1967, she received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Sarton's numerous collections of poetry include Coming Into Eighty (Norton, 1994), Collected …

Phenomenal Woman May Sarton Dares Us to Be Ourselves

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Over the course of a decades-long career, Sarton published 17 books of poetry and 20 novels, along with a play and two books for children. She also published …