Lunch dates take the heart out of the day and the spaciousness from the morning’s work Journal of a Solitude May Sarton May Sarton May Sarton (1912-1995) was a prolific American writer of poetry, novels and journals. She is, perhaps, best known for her nonfiction on growing older (Recovering: A Journal and Journal of a…
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Journal of a Solitude
May Sarton’s Journal of a Solitude was first published in 1973. She had written memoirs previously, but turned to journal writing in a quest for “a more immediate, less controlled record of life.” Journal of a Solitude: September 15th Begin here. It is raining. I look out on the maple, where few leaves have turned yellow,…
a time of one’s own
I’ve spent the passing week reading Jane Hirshfield’s Ten Windows and May Sarton’s Journal of a Solitude, changing between the two of them for very different – still matching – reading experiences. Ten Windows is a book about how we, through poetry, can enlarge our own lives. Journal of a Solitude is story from “inside”, from the…
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