It's Thayer's Portrait of May Sarton (at left), a depiction of the late poet in the prime of her life, on loan from the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, that presides most forcefully in this room. Sarton, a heroine of liberal-left lesbian activists in recent years, leans forward, dark hair held back with a band, smoking in her bold green jacket, orange sweater showing underneath, turquoise cuffs and pants contrasted dramatically against a crimson background. The face of the poet who wrote about the solitary life of the writer, about a woman's love of women, is angular, pellucid, handsome, engaged, determined, intrigued, and receptive... - Scott Ruescher
In 1973, May Sarton moved from the inland New Hampshire home that had been the scene of the creative and inner life she so powerfully probed in both Plant Dreaming Deep and Journal of a Solitude. She went to a house on the sea coast of Maine--a place that was alone in all but a few months in summer, with the sea and the woods and a wide sky ever present.
At first the peace of this place and the escape from the personal anguish she had come to associate with her New Hampshire home seemed to have its own dark side. As she says, "I became haunted by something I read years ago to the effect that when the Japanese were in a period of peace they only painted fans."
But the creative passion returned and she discovered that what she had to give did not depend on others; and this was a discovery of rare value. "Solitude," she writes, "like a long love, deepens with time, and I trust will not fail me as my own powers of creation diminish. For growing into solitude is one way of growing to the end." - back cover, The House by the Sea
Sarton By the Sea Down East Writer May Sarton was never fully embraced by York, the Maine town that she loved. Written by Deborah McDermott. Photograph by Rod Kessler Victoria simon was a thirty-six-year-old mother of two young children when she moved to York in 1984. |
Sarton sings Seacoastonline.com By Susan Morse When filmmaker Linda Thornburg made "Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing," based on May Sarton's novel of the same name, she said she was told by mainstream distributors it was too much of a "lesbian film" and by those in that genre ... |
Alison Bechdal (Photo submitted by Elena Seibert / May 16, 2012) RedEye Chicago (blog) [Poet] May Sarton [laughs]. I think she had a pretty wild love life, especially in her youth. I'd love to hear more about it. I wouldn't say I'm actively working on it. I have an idea for what I would like to do but I'm not really started on it yet. |
 Columbus Dispatch | Daily Almanac Columbus Dispatch “Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.” — May Sarton, American poet (born on this day in 1912, died in 1995) Source: AP. |
Religious Notes St. Augustine Record “May Sarton” by Rev. Jack Ford is the topic for the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship at 10:30 am Sunday. At the age of 10, May Sarton was invited to worship at a Unitarian Universalist church. At 70, she delivered the Ware Lecture at the General ... |
Nearly 1000 workers went out on strike at the Simon silk mills in 1912 ... The Express Times - LehighValleyLive.com May Sarton, American poet (born this date in 1912, died in 1995). Almanac is compiled by Pete Brekus, Express-Times news assistant. He can be reached at 610-258-7171, or at pbrekus@express-times.com. |
Maine governor nominates PUC commissioner WGME Actress Jill Berard is 22. Thought for Today: "Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness." -- May Sarton, American poet (born this date in 1912, ... |
Nampa Chamber celebrates year end at 'The Event' Idaho Press-Tribune Best Boss of the Year, second honoree: Nicole Bradshaw, St. Luke's Mountain States Tumor Institute Posted: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 2:01 am | Updated: 2:05 am, Wed May 16, 2012. by HollyBeech NAMPA — A little laughter and a little learning marked the ... |
 Towanda Daily Review | Students explore the possibilities Towanda Daily Review Times-Shamrock Photo/Rick Stilson Art Cacciola explains the uses of the Sarton six-inch refracting telescope to science students from Candor. Times-Shamrock Photo/Rick Stilson Jared Compton peers through the eyepiece of Kopernik's six-inch refracting ... |
 Globe and Mail | Mount Everest – disease lab? Globe and Mail “A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.” – May Sarton (1912-95), American author Clouds rise behind Mount Everest , the world's highest peak at 8848 metres . - Clouds. |
