About May Sarton
May Sarton was an American poet, novelist, and memoirist born in Wondelgem, Belgium. Many of her novels and poems are pellucid reflections of the lesbian experience.
Novels
The Single Hound (1938)
Joanna and Ulysses (1939)
The Poet and the Donkey (1942)
The Bridge of Years (1946)
Shadow of a Man (1950)
A Shower of Summer Days (1952)
Faithful Are the Wounds (1955)
Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing (1956)
The Birth of a Grandfather (1957)
The Fur Person (1957)
The Small Room (1961)
A Reckoning (1962)
Miss Pickthorn and Mr Hare (1966)
Kinds Of Love (1970)
As We Are Now (1973)
Punch's Secret (1974)
Crucial Conversations (1975)
Anger (1982)
The Magnificent Spinster (1986)
Christmas Light (1987)
The Smile (1987)
The Education of Harriet Hatfield (1989)
Joanna and Ulysses (1939)
The Poet and the Donkey (1942)
The Bridge of Years (1946)
Shadow of a Man (1950)
A Shower of Summer Days (1952)
Faithful Are the Wounds (1955)
Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing (1956)
The Birth of a Grandfather (1957)
The Fur Person (1957)
The Small Room (1961)
A Reckoning (1962)
Miss Pickthorn and Mr Hare (1966)
Kinds Of Love (1970)
As We Are Now (1973)
Punch's Secret (1974)
Crucial Conversations (1975)
Anger (1982)
The Magnificent Spinster (1986)
Christmas Light (1987)
The Smile (1987)
The Education of Harriet Hatfield (1989)
Collections
Encounter in April (poems) (1937)
Inner Landscape (poems) (1939)
A New Year Poem from May Sarton, 1942 (poems) (1941)
Celebrations, 1943 (1942)
The Joys (poems) (1945)
The Lion and the Rose (poems) (1948)
Letter to an Indian Friend (poems) (1949)
Of Friendship At Christmas (poems) (1952)
On Being Given Time (poems) (1953)
The Land of Silence (poems) (1953)
A Celebration (poems) (1956)
Minting Time (poems) (1957)
The Writing of a Poem (poems) (1957)
In Time Like Air (poems) (1958)
The Annealing (1959)
Cloud, Stone, Sun, Vine (poems) (1960)
The House in Winter (poems) (1963)
A Private Mythology: New Poems By May Sarton (poems) (1966)
As Does New Hampshire (poems) (1967)
A Grain of Mustard Seed (poems) (1971)
A Durable Fire (poems) (1972)
Collected Poems, 1930-1993 (poems) (1974)
A World Of Light (poems) (1976)
Selected Poems of May Sarton (poems) (1978)
Halfway to Silence (poems) (1980)
Shell (poems) (1982)
Letters from Maine (poems) (1984)
As Fresh, As Always New (poems) (1985)
Blizzard (poems) (1986)
The Phoenix Again (poems) (1987)
The Silence Now (poems) (1988)
Small Joys: New Year 1990 (poems) (1989)
Now I Become Myself (poems) (1991)
The Work Of Happiness (poems) (1991)
A Handful of Thyme: Christmas 1992 (poems) (1992)
Bliss (poems) (1992)
The Ender, the Beginner (poems) (1992)
Christmas, 1993 (poems) (1993)
After the War (poems) (1994)
Of Molluscs (poems) (1994)
From May Sarton's Well (poems) (1994)
Coming Into Eighty (poems) (1994)
May Sarton's Well (poems) (1997)
Catching Beauty (poems) (2002)
May Sarton to Valeria Knapp: Letters and Poems to a Secret Muse (poems) (2005)
Inner Landscape (poems) (1939)
A New Year Poem from May Sarton, 1942 (poems) (1941)
Celebrations, 1943 (1942)
The Joys (poems) (1945)
The Lion and the Rose (poems) (1948)
Letter to an Indian Friend (poems) (1949)
Of Friendship At Christmas (poems) (1952)
On Being Given Time (poems) (1953)
The Land of Silence (poems) (1953)
A Celebration (poems) (1956)
Minting Time (poems) (1957)
The Writing of a Poem (poems) (1957)
In Time Like Air (poems) (1958)
The Annealing (1959)
Cloud, Stone, Sun, Vine (poems) (1960)
The House in Winter (poems) (1963)
A Private Mythology: New Poems By May Sarton (poems) (1966)
As Does New Hampshire (poems) (1967)
A Grain of Mustard Seed (poems) (1971)
A Durable Fire (poems) (1972)
Collected Poems, 1930-1993 (poems) (1974)
A World Of Light (poems) (1976)
Selected Poems of May Sarton (poems) (1978)
Halfway to Silence (poems) (1980)
Shell (poems) (1982)
Letters from Maine (poems) (1984)
As Fresh, As Always New (poems) (1985)
Blizzard (poems) (1986)
The Phoenix Again (poems) (1987)
The Silence Now (poems) (1988)
Small Joys: New Year 1990 (poems) (1989)
Now I Become Myself (poems) (1991)
The Work Of Happiness (poems) (1991)
A Handful of Thyme: Christmas 1992 (poems) (1992)
Bliss (poems) (1992)
The Ender, the Beginner (poems) (1992)
Christmas, 1993 (poems) (1993)
After the War (poems) (1994)
Of Molluscs (poems) (1994)
From May Sarton's Well (poems) (1994)
Coming Into Eighty (poems) (1994)
May Sarton's Well (poems) (1997)
Catching Beauty (poems) (2002)
May Sarton to Valeria Knapp: Letters and Poems to a Secret Muse (poems) (2005)
Picture Books
Non fiction
In Memoriam (1957)
Reflections By a Fire (1958)
I Knew a Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiography (1959)
Plant Dreaming Deep (1961)
The Design of a Novel (1963)
Excerpts from a Life: Journals and Memoirs (1972)
Journal of a Solitude: Reflections During One Year (1973)
The House By The Sea (1978)
Writings On Writing (1980)
Recovering (1981)
May Sarton - a Self-portrait (1982)
At Seventy (1984)
Honey in the Hive (1988)
After the Stroke (1988)
Conversations With May Sarton (1991)
Endgame (1992)
Among the Usual Days (1993)
Encorse (1993)
Encore (1993)
At Eighty Two (1995)
Selected Letters: Understanding contemporary American literature (1997)
Dear Juliette: Letters of May Sarton to Juliette Huxley (1999)
Selected Letters, 1955-1995 (2002)
Reflections By a Fire (1958)
I Knew a Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiography (1959)
Plant Dreaming Deep (1961)
The Design of a Novel (1963)
Excerpts from a Life: Journals and Memoirs (1972)
Journal of a Solitude: Reflections During One Year (1973)
The House By The Sea (1978)
Writings On Writing (1980)
Recovering (1981)
May Sarton - a Self-portrait (1982)
At Seventy (1984)
Honey in the Hive (1988)
After the Stroke (1988)
Conversations With May Sarton (1991)
Endgame (1992)
Among the Usual Days (1993)
Encorse (1993)
Encore (1993)
At Eighty Two (1995)
Selected Letters: Understanding contemporary American literature (1997)
Dear Juliette: Letters of May Sarton to Juliette Huxley (1999)
Selected Letters, 1955-1995 (2002)
May Sarton recommends
 The Half-sisters (1974) Cynthia Propper Seton "Cynthia Seton is hitting deep into woman's discovery of herself but in a rich and humane way." |  Garden of Malice (1983) (Roz Howard Mystery, book 1) Susan Kenney "A garden of rare pleasures for any reader who loves a mystery out of the ordinary... A fabulously good first novel, I give it five stars." |
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