In this collection of poems, May Sarton demonstrates, perhaps
unintentionally, two methods of writing poetry. The first poems
deal with a trip to Greece, Japan and India, undertaken to
celebrate her fiftieth birthday. They are colorful, polished and
the ones on Japan successfully capture the spare elegance of
Japanese poetry. However they are, in a sense, tourist snapshots,
externalizing some of the bewilderment and displacement of an alien
abroad. The second section, written back home in New Hampshire,
deals with familiar experience and displays a greater assurance as
well as a contrast both in approach and tone. For the audience to
which her name is an established entree. (Kirkus Reviews)
In these poems, May Sarton reflects on a journey undertaken to celebrate her fiftieth birthday, a journey that took her around the world to Greece via Japan and India, and finally home to the New Hampshire village where she had put down roots.
Ethereal and sensual, these intensely vivid poems capture the sights and textures of new places, people, and landscapes as experienced with a poet's fresh eye.
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