May Sarton, Collected Poems, 1930-1993

May Sarton, Collected Poems, 1930-1993 by Sarton, May. Hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780393034936.

A collection of poetry by the author of Endgame: A Journal of the Seventy-ninth Year and Among the Usual Days celebrates sixty years of creative output with poems culled from Sartons thirteen previous books. Lucid, ardent, and contemplative, May Sarton is one of Americas best-loved writers. This comprehensive collection - the first in twenty years - celebrates six decades of bold imagination and fifteen books of poetry, the creative output of a lifetime. Arranged chronologically, these poems reveal the full breadth of Sartons creative vision. Themes include the search for an inward order, her passions, the natural world, self-knowledge, and, in her latest poems, the trials of old age. Moving through Sartons work, we see her at ease in both traditional forms and free verse, finding inspiration in snow over a dark sea, a cats footfall on the stairs, an unexpected love affair. Here is the creative process itself, its sources, demands, and joys - a handbook of the modern poetic psyche.