Coming into Eighty: Poems

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DIVDIVIn May Sartonโ€™s seventeenth and final collection of poetry, the writer reflects on life, aging, and mortality/divDIV
Coming into Eighty
ย presents a poetโ€™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./div/div

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May Sarton (1912โ€“1995) was born on May 3 in Wondelgem, Belgium, and grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her first volume of poetry,ย Encounters in April, was published in 1937 and her first novel,ย The Single Hound, in 1938.ย Her novelsย A Shower of Summer Days,ย The Birth of a Grandfather, andย Faithful Are the Wounds, as well as her poetry collectionย In Time Like Air, all receivedย nominations for the National Book Award.

An accomplished memoirist, Sarton came out as a lesbian in her 1965 bookย Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing. Her memoirย Journal of a Solitudeย (1973) was an account of her experiences as a female artist.ย Sarton spent her later years in York, Maine, living and writing by the sea. In her memoirย Endgame: A Journal of the Seventy-Ninth Yearย (1992), she shares her own personal thoughts on getting older. Her final poetry collection,ย Coming into Eighty, was published in 1994.ย Sarton died on July 16, 1995, in York, Maine.

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