May Sarton—poet, novelist, and chronicler—occupies a special place in American letters. This new journal chronicles the year that began on May 3, 1982, her seventieth birthday. At her home in Maine, she savors “the experience of being alive in this beautiful place,” reflecting on nature, friends, and work. “Why is it good to be old?” she was asked at one of her lectures. “Because,” she said, “I am more myself than I have ever been.”
May Sarton, poet and novelist, chronicles the year that began on 3rd May 1982, her 70th birthday. At her home in Maine, she savours "the experience of being alive in this beautiful place" reflecting on nature, friends and work. May Sarton also wrote "Journal of Solitude" and "As we are Now".
