content, and being a Canadian I wasn’t at all familiar with May Sarton. I’m finding the remaining biographies heavy on U.S. |a Initial Bemis load m2btab.test019 in 2019.Introducing Journal of a Solitude, another out-of-order book for my WEM Biographies Project. |a Women authors, American |0 |y 20th century |0 |v Diaries. |a Poets, American |y 20th century |v Biography. This ebook features an extended biography of May Sarton. Both uplifting and cathartic, it sweeps us along on Sarton's pilgrimage inward. Journal of a Solitude is a moving and profound meditation on creativity, oneness with nature, and the courage it takes to be alone. Sarton's garden is her great, abiding joy, sustaining her through seasons of psychic and emotional pain. She confesses her fears, her disappointments, her unresolved angers. She likens writing to "cracking open the inner world again," which sometimes plunges her into depression. She shares insights about everyday life in the quiet New Hampshire village of Nelson, the desire for friends, and need for solitude-both an exhilarating and terrifying state. In her bravest and most revealing memoir, Sarton casts her keenly observant eye on both the interior and exterior worlds. "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 returning to her "real" life-not friends, not even love, but writing.
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 ).
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