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This enchanting story and classic of cat literature is drawn from the true adventures of Tom Jones, May Sarton s own cat. Prior to making the author s acquaintance, he is a fiercely independent, nameless Cat About Town. Growing tired of his vagabond lifestyle, however, he concludes that there might be some appeal in giving up his freedom for a home. Finally, a house materializes that does seem acceptable and so do the voices that inhabit it. It is here that he begins his transformation into a genuine Fur Person. Sarton s book is one of the most beloved stories ever written about the joys and tribulations inherent in sharing one s life with a cat. It is now reissued in a gorgeous edition featuring David Canright s beautiful illustrations."
"I am here alone for the first time in weeks," May Sarton begins this book, "to take up my 'real' life again at last.That is what is strangethat friends, even passionate love,are not my real life, unless there is time alone in which to explore what is happening or what has happened." In this journal, she says, "I hope to break through into the rough, rocky depths,to the matrix itself. There is violence there and anger never resolved. My need to be alone is balanced against my fear of whatwill happen when suddenly I enter the huge empty silence if I cannot find support there." In this, her bestselling journal, May Sarton writes with keen observation and emotional courage of both inner and outer worlds:a garden, the seasons, daily life in New Hampshire, books, people, ideasand throughout everything, her spiritual and artistic journey. In this book, we are closer to the marrow than ever before in May Sarton's writing. "This journal is not only rich in the love of nature and the love of solitude. It is an honorable confession of the writer's faults, fears, sadness, and disappointments. . . . On the surface, Journal of a Solitude is a quiet book, but if you will read it carefully you will be aware of violent needs and a valiant warrior who has bettled every inch of the way to a share of serenity. This is a beautiful book, wise and warm within its solitude." Eugenia Thornton, Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Sarton has been the lighthouse light for millions of women, and despite the dimming of that light, she remains [in this book] the Sarton who wrote Journal of a Solitude." —Library Journal
May Sarton's love for Juliette Huxley, ignited that first moment she saw her in 1936, transcended sixty years of friendship, passion, rejection, silence, and reconciliation. The letters chart their meeting, May's affair with Juliette's husband Julian (brother of Aldous Huxley) before the war, her intense involvement with Juliette after the war, and the rich, ardent friendship that endured until Juliette's death. While May's intimate relationship with Julian was not a secret, May's more powerful romance with Juliette was. May's fiery passion was a seductive yet sometimes destructive force. Her feelings for and demands on Juliette were often overwhelming to them both. In fact, Juliette refused all contact with May for nearly twenty-five years. Their reconciliation, after Julian's death, wasn't so much a rekindling as it was a testament to the profound affinity between them. Theirs was a relationship rife with complications and misunderstandings but the deep love and compassion they shared for one another prevailed. Included in this book are Sarton's original drafts of an introduction to these letters.
Poems 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. "May Sarton is still teaching us how to think about the events of our lives, and how to sing about them, too."Marge Piercy
A Novel When Laura Spelman learns that she will not get well, she looks on this last illness as a journey during which she must reckon up her life, give up the nonessential, and concentrate on what she calls "the real connections." The heart of the story is Laura's realization that for her the real connections have been with women: her brilliant and devastating mother, a difficult daughter, and most of all a woman she knew when she was young.
A Journal May Sarton's eagerly awaited journals have recorded her life as a single, woman writer and, in later years, as a woman confronting old age. She completed this pilgrimage through her eighty-second year a few months before she died in 1995. "Reporting from the front lines on the author's daily battle with a body and a mind that increasingly refuse to cooperate, At Eighty-Two captures this struggle with a simplicity, elegance and strength that is characteristic of its author and her lifetime of work."Philadelphia City Paper
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.
Sarton's memoir begins with her roots in a Belgian childhood and describes her youth and education in Cambridge, Massachusetts, her coming-of-age years, and the people who influenced her life as a writer.
Lucid, ardent, and contemplative, May Sarton was one of America's best-loved writers. This comprehensive collection celebrated six decades of bold imagination and fifteen books of poetry, the creative output of a lifetime. Arranged chronologically, these poems reveal the full breadth of Sarton's creative vision. Themes include the search for an inward order, her passions, the natural world, self-knowledge, and in her latest poems, the trials of old age. Moving through Sarton's work, we see her at ease in both traditional forms and free verse, finding inspiration in snow over a dark sea, a cat's footfall on the stairs, an unexpected love affair. Here is the creative process itself, its sources, demands, and joysa handbook of the modern poetic psyche.
May Sarton's ninth novel explores a woman's struggle to reconcile the claims of life and art, to transmute passion and pain into poetry. As it opens, Hilary Stevens, a renowned poet in her seventies, is talking with Mar, an intense young man who has sought her out and whose passionate despair reminds her of herself when young. Mar has had an unhappy love affair with a man. Bewildered by both his sexuality and his writing talent, he flings his anguish against Hilary s brusque, sympathetic intelligence."
Harriet Hatfield begins a new life at the age of 60 after her lover of 30 years has died and left her comfortably well off. But when Harriet opens a bookstore for women in a blue-collar neighborhood of Boston, she is viciously attacked for her lesbianism. Ms. Sarton's powerful portrayal of the shy, reserved woman's battle becomes a moving statement about the place of the outsider in our world and the necessity of following the human heart. Dallas Morning News"
"The distinguished poet/essayist . . . describes poignantly the long, anxious days. . . . A lyrical, candid, sensitive spirit pervades this chronicle, which ends with Sarton well again, rejoicing in the present and putting the past behind her." Publishers Weekly "Always to read May Sarton's journal is like getting to talk to an explorer. What she explores, of course, is life itself. This last report, covering particularly rugged terrain, may be the best yet." Noel Perrin "[Sarton] has allowed us to share in all the adventures of her life and in doing so has enriched us beyond belief." Eda Leshan, Newsday "A book of transformative powers. As May Sarton's journal chronicles her battles for life and health, we learn about the complex layers of her courage . . . passionate, spontaneous, moving . . . revealing May Sarton to be one of the great spirits of our time."Valerie Miner "An amazing document of the will to survive, as all of May Sarton's journals have been in a sense, but here the road is steeper and the stakes so much higher. . . . Three cheersno, three hundredfor May Sarton." Susan Kennedy
An extended fable about a Latin mistress, in retirement with her translations of Horace, and a hobo who takes up residence in the henhouse nearby.
May Sarton describes living at her eighteenth-century house in Nelson, New Hampshirehow she acquired it, how it and the garden became part of her. "Sensitive, luminous. . . . Love is the genius of this small, but tender and often poignant, book by a woman of many insights." Brooks Atkinson, New York Times Book Review
The marriage of Ned Fraser, a Boston banker, and Anna Lindstrom, a singer on the brink of fame, is a battlefield of opposing temperaments. Emotional and forthright, Anna battles against Ned's crippling reserve. In the clash of these two strong personalities, May Sarton explores the different ways that men and women express both anger and love.
A Novel
Appearing in book form for the first time, this treasure trove of letters illuminates the life of the beloved poet/writer from early childhood into middle age.
A Journal
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