Collected Poems, 1930-1993

By May Sarton

Lucid, ardent, and contemplative, May Sarton is one of America's best-loved writers. This comprehensive collection - the first in twenty years - celebrates six decades of bold imagination and fifteen books of poetry, the creative output of a lifetime. Arranged chronologically, these poems reveal the full breadth of Sarton's creative vision. Themes include the search for an inward order, her passions, the natural world, self-knowledge, and, in her latest poems, the trials of old age. Moving through Sarton's work, we see her at ease in both traditional forms and free verse, finding inspiration in snow over a dark sea, a cat's footfall on the stairs, an unexpected love affair. Here is the creative process itself, its sources, demands, and joys - a handbook of the modern poetic psyche.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393034933
• ISBN13: 9780393034936
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 2.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.5" x 9.6"