A Grain of a Mustard Seed

Poems

By: May Sarton

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Paperback | 1 March 1971 | Edition Number 1

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76 Pages

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21.08 x 13.71 x 0.76

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Compilation of intense, spirited verse which explores the realms of religion, politics, nature, violence, and old age.

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Certainly Miss Sarton's expository poetry with its rhyming words that clank like coupling railroad cars is for a quite undemanding audience. "Now we have silenced the voice we never heard/ Break open, heart and listen to his word." Occasionally, however, she releases rhetorical postures into true feeling: "Sweet night nursing a neighbor - / The old lady lifts her hands/ and writes a message on the air - /" This direct engagement, unfortunately, is a sometime thing, even in the poems about animals, her special province. In "Bears and Waterfalls" the charmingly sportive ". . . great brown queen/ Sleeked down in her rough silk/ Flirting with her huge lord/ Breast-high in her tureen - " reduces to "And childhood's rug come true." Most of these poems deal with Miss Sarton's distress at the ugly passions let loose upon the world. For the following - a few songs at twilight. (Kirkus Reviews)

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