- 70 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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About this book
In May Sarton's seventeenth and final collection of poetry, the writer reflects on life, aging, and mortality
Coming into Eighty presents a poet's look at age. Herein, Sarton gives readers a glimpse into her quotidian tasks, her memories, her losses, and her triumphs. The volume explores topics ranging from the war in Iraq to the struggle of taking a cat to the vet. Dark and immediate, this work catalogues both the tedium and the splendor of life with equal wit and beauty. Winner of the Levinson Prize.
Coming into Eighty presents a poet's look at age. Herein, Sarton gives readers a glimpse into her quotidian tasks, her memories, her losses, and her triumphs. The volume explores topics ranging from the war in Iraq to the struggle of taking a cat to the vet. Dark and immediate, this work catalogues both the tedium and the splendor of life with equal wit and beauty. Winner of the Levinson Prize.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Publisher's Note
- PREFACE
- Coming into Eighty
- Renascence
- I Wanted Poems to Come
- The O's of November
- December Moon
- As Fresh, As Always New
- Small Joys
- A Thought
- Friendship and Illness
- Best Friend
- The Teacher
- Rinsing the Eye
- Palm
- After the Long Enduring
- Elegy
- The Artist
- All Souls 1991
- The Absence of God
- The Use of Force
- The Scream
- Guilt
- Melancholy
- For My Mother
- Getting Dressed
- Friend or Enemy
- Wanting to Die
- The Tides
- Lunch in the Garden
- Obit
- A Fortune
- To Have What I Have
- Bliss
- Luxury
- The Ender, The Beginner
- A Handful of Thyme
- Birthday Present
- A Biography of May Sarton
- Copyright
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