![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 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. Here were two books by May Sarton, one called Journal of a Solitude, on sale for a quarter apiece. She confesses her fears, her disappointments, her unresolved angers. May Sarton has long had a devoted feminist readership. 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). Journal of a Solitude is a moving and profound meditation on creativity, oneness with nature, and the courage it takes to be alone. ![]()
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