![]() ![]() ![]() This is a beautiful book, wise and warm within its solitude. On the surface, Journal of a Solitude is a quiet book, but if you will read it carefully you will be aware of violent needs and a valiant warrior who has battled every inch of the way to a share of serenity. Sarton wrote many journals, beginning with 1973s Journal of a Solitude. ![]() It is an honorable confession of the writer's faults, fears, sadness, and disappointments. May Sarton was a prolific author who was long considered by her very loyal. This journal is not only rich in the love of nature and the love of solitude. In this book, we are closer to the marrow than ever before in May Sarton's writing. My need to be alone is balanced against my fear of what will happen when suddenly I enter the huge empty silence if I cannot find support there." ![]() There is violence there and anger never resolved. That is what is strange-that friends, even passionate love, are not my real life, unless there is time alone in which to explore what is happening or what has happened." In this journal, she says, "I hope to break through into the rough, rocky depths, to the matrix itself. ".-Cleveland Plain Dealer.īook Synopsis "I am here alone for the first time in weeks," May Sarton begins this book, "to take up my 'real' life again at last. "An honorable confession of the writer's faults, fears, sadnesses, and disappointments. About the Book May Sarton writes with keen observation of both inner and outer worlds-a garden, the seasons, daily life in New Hampshire, books, people, ideas-and throughout everything, her spiritual and artistic journey. ![]()
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