A Private Mythology (eBook, ePUB) - Sarton, May
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Stunning reflections chronicling a journey both spiritual and physical by May Sarton, one of America's most beloved poets In celebration of her fiftieth birthday, May Sarton embarked on a pilgrimage around the world. Traveling through Japan, India, and Greece, she captured her spiritual discoveries in this vivid collection of poetry. Arresting images and meditations on the differences between East and West are rendered with the exceptional clarity of an accomplished artist. Winner of the Emily Clark Balch Prize.

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Stunning reflections chronicling a journey both spiritual and physical by May Sarton, one of America's most beloved poets In celebration of her fiftieth birthday, May Sarton embarked on a pilgrimage around the world. Traveling through Japan, India, and Greece, she captured her spiritual discoveries in this vivid collection of poetry. Arresting images and meditations on the differences between East and West are rendered with the exceptional clarity of an accomplished artist. Winner of the Emily Clark Balch Prize.
Autorenporträt
May Sarton (1912-1995) was born on May 3 in Wondelgem, Belgium, and grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her first volume of poetry, Encounters in April, was published in 1937 and her first novel, The Single Hound, in 1938.Her novels A Shower of Summer Days, The Birth of a Grandfather, and Faithful Are the Wounds, as well as her poetry collection In Time Like Air, all receivednominations for the National Book Award. An accomplished memoirist, Sarton came out as a lesbian in her 1965 book Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing. Her memoir Journal of a Solitude(1973) was an account of her experiences as a female artist.Sarton spent her later years in York, Maine, living and writing by the sea. In her memoir Endgame: A Journal of the Seventy-Ninth Year(1992), she shares her own personal thoughts on getting older. Her final poetry collection, Coming into Eighty, was published in 1994.Sarton died on July 16, 1995, in York, Maine.