Stunning reflections chronicling a journey both spiritual and physical by May Sarton, one of America's most beloved poets. In celebration of her fiftieth birthday, May Sarton embarked on a pilgrimage around the world. Traveling through Japan, India, and Greece, she captured her spiritual discoveries in this vivid collection of poetry. Arresting images and meditations on the differences between East and West are rendered with the exceptional clarity of an accomplished artist.
"The first poems deal with a trip to Greece, Japan and India, undertaken to celebrate her fiftieth birthday. They are colorful, polished and the ones on Japan successfully capture the spare elegance of Japanese poetry. However they are, in a sense, tourist snapshots, externalizing some of the bewilderment and displacement of an alien abroad. The second section, written back home in New Hampshire,
