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Can Sarton (May 3, 1912-1995) was an American poet, novelist, and memoirist natural around Wondelgem, Belgium. Numerous of her novels & verse form come pellucid reflections of the lesbian experience. Whilst she published her additional openly sapphic novel Mrs. Stevens Hears a Mermaids Singing in 1965, Sarton feared, justly, that writing then strongly all about sapphism would lead to the diminution of the antecedently constituted value of her act. "The fear of homosexuality is so great that it took courage to write Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing," she wrote inside Journal of Solitude 1973, "to write a novel about a woman homosexual who is not a sex maniac, a drunkard, a drug-taker, or in any way repulsive, to portray a homosexual who is neither pitiable nor disgusting, without sentimentality . . . ."

Poetry books

Encounter inside April Inner Landscape A Lion & a Rose A Land of Silence Eventually Prefer Air Cloud, Stone, Sun, Vine The Personal Mythology When Does Just released Hampshire The Grain of Mustard Seed The Durable Fire Gathered Verse form, 1930-1973 Selected Poems of Will Sarton (edited by Serena Sue Hilsinger & Lois Brynes) Midway to Silence Letters from either Maine

Novels

A Only Hound A Bridge of Years Shadow of the Man The Shower of Summer Days Faithful come a Wounds the Birth of a Grandfather A Fur Person A Little Room Joanna & Ulysses Mrs. Stevens Hears a Mermaids Singing Miss Pickthorn & Mr. Hare A Poet & a Donkey Sort of Love When I am Now Important Conversations The Reckoning Anger A Brilliant Spinster A Education of Harriet Hatfield

Nonfiction

I personally Knew the Phoenix Plant Dreaming deep Journal of the Solitude The Globe of Light A Home per Sea Recovering: The Journal At Seventy: The Journal Writings in Writings Fallowing a Stroke Could Sarton - The Self-Portrait Encore: The Journal of the Eightieth Year''

Children's books

''Punch's Secret A hike Through the Woods''

LiteraryTraveler.com: May Sarton
Biographical article entitled "Permanence and May Sarton", by Deborah Straw.

May Sarton: A Poet's Life
Offers a detailed biography with a photo and selected bibliography.

Harvard Square Library: May Sarton
Provides a detailed personal biography with photos.
Society: People: Women: Feminism






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