MAY SARTON (1912-1995)~COMING INTO EIGHTY~1994~INSCRIBED & SIGNED 1st edition1/1

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MAY SARTON (1912-1995)~COMING INTO EIGHTY~1994~INSCRIBED & SIGNED 1st edition1/1:
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MAY SARTON (1912-1995)

COMING INTO EIGHTY: Poems (1994)

1st edition. 1st printing.

Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition with evidence of a little moisture on the back board, and some foxing on top as shown in photos. The binding is strong and the pages are clean.

Publisher - W. W. Norton & Company

Publication date - November 17, 1994

Language - English

Dimensions - 6 x 8.7 x 0.6 inches

Shipping weight - 9.9 ounces

Pagination - 72

ISBN-10 - 0393036898

ISBN-13 - align="left">May Sarton was the winner of the Levinson Prize.

Sarton's poetic labors continued far into her old age. After recovering from a 1986 stroke, she told Los Angeles Times interviewer Penelope Moffet that the most difficult aspect of her recuperation period was the temporary inability to write poetry. When she returned to writing, many of her poems explored growing older.

Her final poetry book, Coming into Eighty, deals bluntly with the realities of aging and the difficulties of performing everyday tasks. "In form the poems are very restrained, but not in emotion," a Publishers Weekly reviewer observed.