The Land of Silence

A splendid collection from a true master It is often in solitude that a writer begins to understand herself. This becomes evident in The Land of Silence , May Sarton’s collection of poems previously published in the New Yorker and Harper’s Magazine , as Sarton searches for solitude and tries to understand the regrets and ecstasies associated with it.   Images from these poems linger in the mind’s eye: a bird, a dream. Sarton’s verse feels real, yet it represents something more. Published in