The Silence Now: New and Uncollected Early Poems

by May Sarton

“Her complex ideas are born into verse with the easy, simple beauty that is typical of her stunning lyric style.”― Boston Globe

Genres: Poetry

80 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1988

About the author

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.