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Journal of a Solitude
Poet and novelist May Sarton claims, "Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self." Susan Wise Bauer suggests this as one of the autobiographies and memoirs to read for a "well-educated mind": "This journal is an attempt to understand the nature of solitude... she airs her frustrations over her inward suspicious (common to creative women) that she is shirking her responsibilities by being alone with her books, rather than caring for people."
About the Book
Publisher’s description:
May Sarton’s parrot chatters away as Sarton looks out the window at the rain and contemplates returning to her “real” life—not friends, not even love, but writing. In her bravest and most revealing memoir, Sarton casts her keenly observant eye on both the interior and exterior worlds. She shares insights about everyday life in the quiet New Hampshire village of Nelson, the desire for friends, and need for solitude—both an exhilarating and terrifying state. She likens writing to “cracking open the inner world again,” which sometimes plunges her into depression. She confesses her fears, her disappointments, her unresolved angers. Sarton’s garden is her great, abiding joy, sustaining her through seasons of psychic and emotional pain.
Journal of a Solitude is a moving and profound meditation on creativity, oneness with nature, and the courage it takes to be alone. Both uplifting and cathartic, it sweeps us along on Sarton’s pilgrimage inward.
This ebook features an extended biography of May Sarton.
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