May Sarton, Author W. W. Norton & Company $8.95 (241p) ISBN 978-0-393-30785-6
With their terminal ennui, casual sex and hip detachment, Sydney-based writer Wilding's blase characters seem right out of Southern California, yet Australia, land of menacing emptiness, is the setting of these 14 stories. The best and most powerful
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May Sarton, Author W. W. Norton & Company $15.95 (72p) ISBN 978-0-393-03689-3
In these sparely fashioned poems Sarton (The Silence Now) contemplates life from the perspective of 80 years. The book is dedicated to the poet's cat, her muse. This may seem whimsical, and some of the poems are essentially notations (``A Thought'').
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May Sarton, Author W. W. Norton & Company $13.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-393-31317-8
Writer Sarton reflects on the physical pain and psychological fears involved in growing old while cherishing the things in life (friends, nature and creativity) that keep her going. (July)
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May Sarton, Author W. W. Norton & Company $17.95 (350p) ISBN 978-0-393-31622-3
PW called this last of poet Sarton's published journals ""a poignantly intimate portrait of a literary life."" (May)
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May Sarton, Author W. W. Norton & Company $12.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-393-31388-8
In the latest installment in Sarton's series of journals, the author must struggle with the encroachments of illness and frailty upon independence. (Dec.)
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May Sarton, Author W. W. Norton & Company $16.95 (280p) ISBN 978-0-393-02533-0
The distinguished poet/essayist (The Magnificent Spinster, At Seventy) here presents diary entries from April 1986 through February 1987, written while she was recovering from a life-threatening stroke. Sarton, isolated at the time at her New...
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May Sarton, Author W. W. Norton & Company $14.95 (79p) ISBN 978-0-393-02651-1
Sarton is now in her mid-70s, and the title of her luminous new verse collection alludes to its underlying theme: old age. It's a time when she has ``more of everything to care for, to maintain.'' Her powers of observation have deepened: a cat's...
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May Sarton, Author W. W. Norton & Company $18.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-393-02695-5
Sarton's 19th novel echoes many earlier themes: the comfort of friendship; relationships between women; the precarious balance between union and solitude, the bond between people and their pets, and what it means to live an elegant life and achieve...
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May Sarton, Author W. W. Norton & Company $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-393-03529-2
Those who may picture old age as static, retrospective, or restrictive will find a wholesome corrective in poet Sarton's journal of her 80th year. As she did in her previous journal, Endgame: A Journal of the Seventy-Ninth Year , Sarton demonstrates
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May Sarton, Author W. W. Norton & Company $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-393-03889-7
Poet, novelist, survivor and writer of journals, Sarton is back with a chronicle of 1993-1994, the year she turned 82. Newcomers to this series will be hypnotized by the progression of days as Sarton struggles to cope with life in a large Maine...
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May Sarton, Author, Susan Sherman, Editor W. W. Norton & Company $35 (416p) ISBN 978-0-393-03954-2
""More than kisses,"" John Donne wrote, ""letters mingle souls."" And very few letters can have been more open, more anxious to mingle, than those of May Sarton's. Her carefully crafted volumes of poetry, the novels elegant with insistent intent,...
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May Sarton, Author, Susan Sherman, Editor, Warren Keith Wright, Foreword by . Norton $37.95 (447p) ISBN 978-0-393-05111-7
"[W]ho do I write for? Certainly not
only for women... I guess I write for sensitive human beings wherever they are, however young or old, and of whatever sex. But I do not
write for academic critics, that's sure. Nor do they like what I...
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May Sarton, Author, T. O. Madden, Author W. W. Norton & Company $21.95 (218p) ISBN 978-0-393-03346-5
Like all of Sarton's journals, this is a testament to the joys of nature from a courageous and loving woman. It is different from the others ( Journal of a Solitude , etc.) in that now, at age 79 and living alone in her house in Maine, she must...
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May Sarton, Author, Edith Royce Schade, Editor, Edith Royce Schade, Photographer Papier-Mache Press $20 (18p) ISBN 978-0-918949-52-3
Schade took Sarton's statement of her delight ``in light, solitude, the natural world, love, time, and creation itself'' as an organizing principle for this volume, which combines selections from Sarton's writing with Schade's photographs. Many of...
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Susan Sherman, Editor, May Sarton, Author, Francis Huxley, Foreword by W. W. Norton & Company $29.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-393-04733-2
The letters that American poet and novelist Sarton wrote to Swiss-born sculptor Juliette Baillot Huxley are witty, passionate and soul-baring. The two first met in England in 1936, when Sarton, 24, became captivated by Juliette, 39, even while...
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Bradford Dudley Daziel, Author, May Sarton, Author W. W. Norton & Company $22.95 (390p) ISBN 978-0-393-02968-0
This inspiriting collection gathers Sarton's zestful journals, fiction, essays on her craft, and the poetry--taut, formal and passionate--for which she is best known. Sarton, who will be 79 on publication daynifty! , writes of solitude, of ardent...
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