I lie down very near the plant, and I don't have to disturb anything. It makes me think of you as Mother Earth! It is a telling imageÑthis hugging the Earth. Since you cannot now bend to plant them, you say you get into your work clothes and lie on the ground to do so. Seshachari: What moved me deeply in your journal featured in this issue is the way you planted lobelia. Read a journal and poetry by May Sarton in this issue of Weber Studies.

Altogether, I spent a most pleasant time at her home set in the idyllic settings of a Maine coastline. We even had time to view the latest video focusing on her life and work, titled 'Writing in the Upward Years,' produced by Stephen Robitaille and Bill Suchy. On that beautiful Monday, however, she was in great spirits and graciously insisted that I visit her again that evening after our morning recording. (The actual interview, of course, always takes a direction of its own.) We had planned to record the interview over a period of two days so as to not tire her out on one single day.

As is my wont, I had sent her a set of questions earlier. The following interview was recorded on 5 August 1991 at her home in York, Maine. At Seventy: A Journal was selected for the American Book Awards in 1985. Her more recent awards include the Unitarian-Universalist Women's Federation Award for Ministry to Women, the Avon/COCOA Pioneer Woman Award, Fund for Human Dignity Award, and the Maryann Hartman Award. She has been a Guggenheim fellow, a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, a Danforth Foundation Visiting Lecturer, and has been reading poems all over the country for many years. May Sarton currently lives in York, Maine.Ī fellow since 1958 of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Sarton has received many honorary doctorates. The family emigrated to the United States in 1916 as refugees from World War I. May Sarton was born in Belgium, the daughter of George Sarton, the eminent historian of science, and Mabel Elwes Sarton, an English artist. A collection of interviews titled Conversations with May Sarton was published by the University of Mississippi Press in 1991. Her latest journal, Endgame, will be published by W.W. Her latest books are After the Stroke (journal, 1988), The Silence Now (poetry, 1988), The Education of Harriet Hatfield (novel, 1989).

May Sarton is the author of over fifty books in four different genres: poetry, novel, journal, and memoir.

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