Selected Poems of May Sarton [Paperback]

The poems in this first selection from her whole work were written over a period of forty years. They convey a wonderfully energetic alternation of mood, idea, and experience that are part of her unique creative process.The steady growth of May Sarton's following and critical importance in recent years has revealed a creative writer of remarkable scopeequally at home in three literary forms: fiction, autobiography, and poetry. It is in her poetry, however, where she achieves the full extent of her revelation as artist and human.