A Grain of Mustard Seed
By May Sarton
1970
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This is a book of new poems by May Sarton, all of which bear the imprint of a mature poet in a period of growth. The lyric poet whom Miss Sarton’s readers have come to know is here throughout, but the lyricism has a new toughness and resilience. The book pivots on two sections of poems grouped around the themes of politics and religion. It contains a major poem on violence, Invocation to Kali, as well as a section of poems about animals, and lyrics about old age and about children. In both ballad and free verse forms, a searching spirit responds to the world around her.
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Author
May Sarton
Author · 51 books
May Sarton was born on May 3, 1912, in Wondelgem, Belgium, and grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her first volume of poetry, Encounters in April, was published in 1937 and her first novel, The Single Hound, in 1938. An accomplished memoirist, Sarton boldly came out as a lesbian in her 1965 book Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing. Her later memoir, Journal of a Solitude, was an account of her experiences as a female artist. Sarton died in York, Maine, on July 16, 1995.
