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1 online resource |
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Letters from Maine -- Inner landscape -- Halfway to silence |
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Cover Page; Title Page; Contents; Publisher's Note; Letters from Maine; Title Page; Contemplation of Poussin; Part I Letters from Maine; A Farewell; Letters from Maine:; "Yes, I am home again, and alone."; "November opens the sky. I look out"; "No letter from the muse. Time out."; "There was your voice, astonishment"; "From a distance the ocean looks calm"; "When a woman feels alone, when the room"; "Who has spoken of the unicorn in old age?"; "When I heard you say in a brisk voice"; "The muse of course airs out the inner world"; "The muse is here, she who dazzled the air." |
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Part II A Winter GarlandTwelve Below; Dead Center; Shell; Correspondence; Snow Fall; For Monet; The Cold Night; Seascape; After a Winter's Silence; Moose in the Morning; The Wood Pigeons; Elegy: The Rose-Breasted Grosbeak; April in Maine; Part III Letters to Myself; For Laurie; Mourning to Do; Survivors; Who Knows Where the Joy Goes; Ut Unium Sint; An Elegy for Scrabble; Cold Spring; Intimation; Letters to Myself; The Seed; The Consummation; The Image is a Garden; Index of Titles and First Lines; Inner Landscape; Title Page; Dedication; I. From this Nettle; Prayer Before Work; Invocation |
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Architectural ImageLandscape; Record; Lament; Understatement; Granted This World; II. Sonnets; Summary; Summary; Conversation on the Telephone; Address to the Heart; Transition; Translation; The Vanquished; Memory of Swans; After Silence; Canticles; Winter Landscape; From Men Who Died Deluded; Afternoon on Washington Street; The Puritan; From a Train Window; Static Landscape; Considerations; Winter Evening; Map for Despair; You Who Ask Peace; The Pride of Trees; Greeting; A Letter to James Stephens; Halfway to Silence; Title Page; Halfway to Silence; Airs above the ground; I |
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After All These YearsTwo Songs; The Oriole; Old Trees; A Voice; The Balcony; The Myths Return; Time for Rich Silence; Three Things; The Lady of the Lake; First Autumn; Mal du Départ; II; Jealousy; Control; Along a Brook; Beggar, Queen, and Ghost; The Country of Pain; Out of Touch; At The Black Rock; III; The Turning of the Wind; After the Storm; Love; Of Molluscs; June Wind; The Summer Tree; Late Autumn; The Geese; Autumn Sonnets; Pruning the Orchard; Old Lovers at the Ballet; IV; On Sark; In Suffolk; A Winter Notebook; Of the Muse; Index; A Biography of May Sarton; Copyright |
| Summary |
Three celebrated volumes of verse from a feminist icon, poet, and author of the groundbreaking novel Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing. Letters from Maine: A rugged coastline provides a stark background for Sarton's images of a tragically brief love. With vulnerability and emotional depth, she explores the willingness to devote everything to a new love, as well as the despair at the memory of what is left over when it fades. Inner Landscape: This collection of May Sarton's poems displays her inimitable mix of stately verse and depth of feeling that lurks beneath every line, creating a tantalizing, magnetically charged distance between reader and poet. Halfway to Silence: After decades of writing flowing lyric verse, May Sarton's style turned to short, vibrant bursts of poetry. These condensed poems are rife with exuberant impressions of nature and of love, including two of her most acclaimed works, "Old Lovers at the Ballet" and "Of the Muse." Recognized as a true pioneer in lesbian literature, "Sarton's poems enter and illuminate every natural corner of our lives ... So strong in their faith and in their positive response to the human condition that they will outlast much of the fashionable, cynical poetry of our ear" (James Martin) |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 28, 2018) |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 20th century.
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POETRY -- American -- General.
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POETRY -- Women Authors.
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American poetry
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Sarton, May, 1912-1995.
Letters from Maine
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Sarton, May, 1912-1995.
Inner landscape
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Sarton, May, 1912-1995.
Halfway to silence
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| ISBN |
9781504057103 |
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1504057104 |
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