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  • ENCOUNTER IN APRIL
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    ENCOUNTER IN APRIL
    MAY SARTON
    The debut work of a literary legend May Sarton's career spanned sixty years and included novels, poetry, memoirs, and even children's books, but it was poetry that provided the world's first look at her wondrous talent. Encounter in April is a fitting starting point for readers wishing to familiarize themselves with one of the twentieth century's most lyrical and eloquent autho...

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  • INNER LANDSCAPE
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    INNER LANDSCAPE
    MAY SARTON
    A strong-willed and emotional collection hidden under a well-groomed landscape of words With her debut collection of poems, Encounter in April, May Sarton made an incredible splash in the world of poetry. Her work is impossible to imitate: a mix of stately verse and depth of emotion that lurks beneath every line, creating a tantalizing, magnetically charged distance between rea...

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  • LETTERS FROM MAINE
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    LETTERS FROM MAINE
    MAY SARTON
    The poetic tale of a fleeting love affair In her sixty years in literature, May Sarton has taken her readers through all of her emotions and pushed us to explore new places within ourselves. But her feelings are never more raw or exposed than in Letters from Maine.   The rugged coast provides a stark background for Sarton's images of a tragically brief and newfound love. She de...

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  • THE LAND OF SILENCE
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    THE LAND OF SILENCE
    MAY SARTON
    A splendid collection from a true master It is often in solitude that a writer begins to understand herself. This becomes evident in The Land of Silence, May Sarton's collection of poems previously published in the New Yorker and Harper's Magazine, as Sarton searches for solitude and tries to understand the regrets and ecstasies associated with it.   Images from these poems lin...

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  • SELECTED POEMS OF MAY SARTON
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    SELECTED POEMS OF MAY SARTON
    MAY SARTON
    The comprehensive collection detailing the career of a twentieth-century master In her prolific six-decade career, May Sarton was as at home crafting a novel as she was writing a memoir. However, it was in poetry that Sarton's feelings were laid bare. She was a writer of immense creativity and strength, and created a back catalog of poetry that could rival those of any of her c...

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  • COLLECTED POEMS, 1930–1973
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    COLLECTED POEMS, 1930–1973
    MAY SARTON
    A splendidly edited anthology of the greatest poems of one of America's finest writers From the very beginning of May Sarton's career, in her fiction, memoir, and poetry, her work has been touched by a deep sense of order. The careful structure of her work provides an elegant backdrop against which her emotions are free to unfold, rising up through the cracks and fissures of he...

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  • AS DOES NEW HAMPSHIRE
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    AS DOES NEW HAMPSHIRE
    MAY SARTON
    May Sarton's exquisitely rendered tribute to her home state Over the course of her career, May Sarton wrote on a range of topics and places in both prose and poetry, and traveled across the world in search of new subjects. There is, however, one place that she always returned to in the end: Nelson, New Hampshire.   Written in honor of the town's bicentennial, As Does New Hampsh...

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  • RECOVERING
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    RECOVERING
    MAY SARTON
    An affecting diary of one year's hardships and healing, by one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary memoirists For decades, readers have celebrated May Sarton's journals for their candid look at relationships, success and failure, communion with nature, and the curious stages of aging. In Recovering, Sarton focuses on her sixty-sixth year—one marked by the turmoil of a...

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  • I KNEW A PHOENIX
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    I KNEW A PHOENIX
    MAY SARTON
    May Sarton's first memoir: A lyrical and enchanting look at her formative years from the onset of the First World War through the beginning of the Second Author of a dozen memoirs, May Sarton had a unique talent for capturing the wonder and beauty of nature, love, aging, and art. Throughout her prolific career, she penned many journals examining the different stages of her life...

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  • THE BRIDGE OF YEARS
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    THE BRIDGE OF YEARS
    MAY SARTON
    May Sarton's celebrated novel of family, philosophy, and survival, set between the two great wars that cleaved Europe in two In the wake of the First World War, life for the Duchesnes goes on almost as it always has. Situated near a vegetable garden, an orchard, and rolling green pastures, their Belgian estate is one of the few that escaped dereliction in the difficult precedin...

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  • KINDS OF LOVE
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    KINDS OF LOVE
    MAY SARTON
    Spending their first winter away from the city, an aging married couple finds renewed friendship and love in the New Hampshire hills Christina and Cornelius Chapman have spent their summers in Willard for years, shunning the city's hottest months in favor of New Hampshire's rocky, rolling hills. In Willard, Christina looks forward to spending time with Ellen, enjoying forest wa...

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  • THE MAGNIFICENT SPINSTER
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    THE MAGNIFICENT SPINSTER
    MAY SARTON
    May Sarton's powerful and profound novel of an extraordinary life, and of one woman's efforts to preserve the force and vitality of her experiences on the pages of a book For the second time in my life—and I am now seventy—I am embarking on an effort which may well come to nothing but which has possessed my mind, haunts, and will not let me sleep.   From her opening statement, ...

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  • AT SEVENTY
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    AT SEVENTY
    MAY SARTON
    Winner of the American Book Award: May Sarton's honest and engrossing journal of her seventieth year, spent living and working on the Maine coast. May Sarton's journals are a captivating look at a rich artistic life. In this, her ode to aging, she savors the daily pleasures of tending to her garden, caring for her dogs, and entertaining guests at her beloved Maine home by the s...

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  • THE SMALL ROOM
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    THE SMALL ROOM
    MAY SARTON
    In the hallowed halls of one of New England's most prestigious colleges, a young woman finds new and unexpected life as professor while a scandal brews just on the periphery On the train north from New York City, Lucy Winter takes inventory of her life. Twenty-seven and newly single, Lucy is headed toward a fate she never anticipated: professorship at a women's college in New E...

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  • CRUCIAL CONVERSATIONS
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    CRUCIAL CONVERSATIONS
    MAY SARTON
    "May Sarton's provocative novel is about a wife who has outgrown her husband, and after twenty-seven years of marriage decides that she has had enough. . . . [Poppy] is altogether believable." — The Atlantic To their close friend Philip, Poppy and Reed Whitelaw's marriage appears stable and happy. Their ritual Sunday tennis matches and dinners are a highlight of his week, and t...

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  • A SHOWER OF SUMMER DAYS
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    A SHOWER OF SUMMER DAYS
    MAY SARTON
    National Book Award Finalist: A couple returns to an Irish village after years away in this novel by the New York Times–bestselling author of As We Are Now. The Irish estate home Dene's Court has been empty for years—its icy visage, shuttered windows, and overgrown tennis court are a burden for its caretakers and a curiosity for the nearby townspeople. And so the announcement t...

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  • ANGER
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    ANGER
    MAY SARTON
    May Sarton's sharp exploration of how men and women love—and how they clash—as shown through one tempestuous relationship Ned Fraser has never seen himself as a husband. His distinguished job at a Boston bank has kept him satisfied while a string of failed love affairs has concerned him little. But no woman has ever affected him the way Anna Lindstrom does. A concert singer of ...

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  • AT EIGHTY-TWO
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    AT EIGHTY-TWO
    MAY SARTON
    The New York Times–bestselling author of At Seventy returns with a memoir about advancing age, including her experience with a series of strokes. In this poignant and fearless account, Sarton chronicles the struggles of life at eighty-two. She juxtaposes the quotidian details of life—battling a leaky roof, sharing an afternoon nap with her cat, the joy of buying a new mattress—...

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  • THE HOUSE BY THE SEA
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    THE HOUSE BY THE SEA
    MAY SARTON
    The author and poet's graceful elegy about life, love, work, and growing older: "The most moving and the most thoughtful [of her] journal-memoirs" ( The Plain Dealer, Cleveland). When May Sarton uprooted her life after fifteen years in the refurbished New Hampshire house with the garden she tended so lovingly, she relied solely on instinct. And something told her it was time to...

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  • THE SINGLE HOUND
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    THE SINGLE HOUND
    MAY SARTON
    In May Sarton's debut novel, a mysterious and beloved Belgian poet finds new life when a young Englishman ventures to meet her  Published under the pseudonym Jeanne Latour, Doro's poetry inspired a generation. Her teaching of great literature and philosophy also fired up the imaginations of her young pupils. Throughout her adult life, Doro's most important relationships have be...

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  • PLANT DREAMING DEEP
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    PLANT DREAMING DEEP
    MAY SARTON
    The author's tribute to the 18th-century New England farmhouse she called home: "[A] tender and often poignant book by a woman of many insights" ( The New York Times Book Review). In  Plant Dreaming Deep, Sarton shares an intensely personal account of transforming a house into a home. She begins with an introduction to the enchanting village of Nelson, where she first meets her...

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  • A RECKONING
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    A RECKONING
    MAY SARTON
    In this poignant novel by a New York Times–bestselling author, a dying woman looks back on the great relationships of her life. When she learns that she is dying, Laura Spelman vows to spend her final year only on what matters most. As she quickly realizes, this means coming to terms with her most fruitful and important bonds—her "real connections"—all of which have been with w...

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  • JOURNAL OF A SOLITUDE
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    JOURNAL OF A SOLITUDE
    MAY SARTON
    The poet and author's "beautiful . . . wise and warm" journal of time spent in her New Hampshire home alone with her garden, her books, the seasons, and herself (Eugenia Thornton,  Cleveland Plain Dealer ). "Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self." —May Sarton May Sarton's parrot chatters away as Sarton looks out the window at the rain and contemplates ...

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  • A WORLD OF LIGHT
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    A WORLD OF LIGHT
    MAY SARTON
    This captivating book by May Sarton rejoices in friendship and family  In  A World of Light, renowned poet and novelist May Sarton renders unforgettable portraits of the friends she considers family—and the family she looks upon as friends. From her father, famed science historian George Sarton, she learns that work is "of the first importance." Her mother, Mabel, an artist in ...

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  • THE EDUCATION OF HARRIET HATFIELD
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    THE EDUCATION OF HARRIET HATFIELD
    MAY SARTON
    After her lover of thirty years dies, a Boston woman opens a bookstore for her neighborhood, an endeavor that forces her to confront her past while she rebuilds her future Over the course of their thirty-year relationship, Vicky and Harriet fell into a predictable cadence: Vicky took the lead while Harriet was content to follow. When Vicky dies, Harriet is lost and in search of...

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  • MRS. STEVENS HEARS THE MERMAIDS SINGING
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    MRS. STEVENS HEARS THE MERMAIDS SINGING
    MAY SARTON
    Sarton's most important novel tells the story of a poet in her seventies, whose life is retold episodically during an interview with two writers from a literary magazine  Hilary Stevens's prolific career includes a provocative novel that shot her into the public consciousness years ago, and an oeuvre of poetry that more recently has consigned her to near-obscurity. Now in the t...

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  • HALFWAY TO SILENCE
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    HALFWAY TO SILENCE
    MAY SARTON
    A striking collection of short poems from acclaimed writer May Sarton After decades of writing flowing lyric verse, May Sarton's style turned to short bursts of poetry. Likening poetry to gardening, she writes, "Muse, pour strength into my pruning wrist / That I may cut the way toward open space." These condensed poems are rife with exuberant impressions of nature and of love. ...

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  • A DURABLE FIRE
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    A DURABLE FIRE
    MAY SARTON
    Poetic meditations on solitude by acclaimed author May Sarton This collection borrows its title from Sir Walter Raleigh, who wrote, "Love is a durable fire / In the mind ever burning." It is a fitting sentiment for a collection on solitude, wherein the author finds herself full of emotion even in seclusion. The first poem, "Gestalt at Sixty," finds the author reflecting on the ...

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  • IN TIME LIKE AIR
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    IN TIME LIKE AIR
    MAY SARTON
    Finalist for the National Book Award: May Sarton at her evocative and contemplative best The title poem of this entrancing collection compares love to salt for its ability both to dissolve and to crystallize "into a presence." At once philosophical and fiercely corporeal, this work presents emotion as a sensory experience. Written with Sarton's characteristic concision, these d...

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  • COMING INTO EIGHTY
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    COMING INTO EIGHTY
    MAY SARTON
    In May Sarton's seventeenth and final collection of poetry, the writer reflects on life, aging, and mortality Coming into Eighty presents a poet's look at age. Herein, Sarton gives readers a glimpse into her quotidian tasks, her memories, her losses, and her triumphs. The volume explores topics ranging from the war in Iraq to the struggle of taking a cat to the vet. Dark and im...

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