May Sarton
Halfway to Silence
New Poems
Pure lyric poems come rarely in any poet's life. When they do, the must be
treasured as gifts from the White Goddess, "sister of the mirage and echo."
To May Sarton, poetry was life's deepest creative passion. It reflected the
preoccupations of her mind and emotions as she progressed through more than
five decades of experiencing the natural world, love and friendship, and
the crises of the times. But for a long while she felt the lyric mood was
past. Then, abruptly, her life took a new turn, and a marvelously musical
flow of short poems came from her pen. They are collected here, in this
small volume.
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