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050 00 $aPS3537.A832$bC66 1994
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100 1 $aSarton, May,$d1912-1995.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79022029
245 10 $aComing into eighty :$bnew poems /$cMay Sarton.
260 $aNew York :$bNorton,$c1994.
263 $a9410
300 $a71 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
505 0 $aComing into Eighty -- Renascence -- I Wanted Poems to Come -- The O's of November -- December Moon -- As Fresh, As Always New -- Small Joys -- A Thought -- Friendship and Illness -- Best Friend -- The Teacher -- Rinsing the Eye -- Palm -- After the Long Enduring -- Elegy -- The Artist -- All South, 1991 -- The Absence of God -- The Use of Force -- The Scream -- Guilt -- Melancholy -- For My Mother -- Getting Dressed -- Friend or Enemy -- Wanting to Die -- The Tides -- Lunch in the Garden -- Obit -- A Fortune -- To Have What I Have -- Bliss -- Luxury -- The Ender, The Beginner -- A Handful of Thyme -- Birthday Present.
520 $a"Here I am, writing poems in my seventy-ninth and eightieth years, and the reason is partly because I am a foreigner in the land of old age and have tried to learn its language." With these words from the preface of her new, luminous collection, May Sarton takes on the subject of herself in old age.
520 8 $aHere are Sarton's observations and reflections, many of which came to her as if by magic during the small hours of the morning. Along with the daily events of writing a letter, appreciating her flowers, taking care of her cat, Pierrot, these poems wrestle with the larger questions of life and death, the difficulties and rewards of living alone. Longtime fans will find Sarton as celebratory and fresh as ever. In a few sketched lines an entire world - her world - springs into place, fully formed.
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS3537.A832$iC66 1994
852 00 $bbar$hPS3537.A832$iC66 1994