Presented here is "Now I Become Myself" — a beloved poem by the prolific novelist, memoirist, and poet May Sarton (1912 – 1995).

May Sarton. Image ID: 2007913 May 3rd marks the centenary of the birth of poet and novelist May Sarton. Sarton’s most important novel, Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing, tells the story of septuagenarian Hilary Stevens, a poet whose life is retold episodically during an interview with two writers from a literary magazine. In notes for the draft of Mrs. Stevens, now in

NELSON, NH, THE SIGNPOST SAID, pointing off to the right of my backroads route to a bookstore event I gave in 2011. I knew it led to the former home of a favorite author, May

May Sarton (1912 –1995) was an important and prolific American author of poetry, literature, and journals. The Rare Book and Special Collections Division holds several of Sarton’s first editions in the Rare Book and Gene Berry and Jeffrey Campbell Collections.

December 1992 | Tom Andrews, David Bottoms, Thomas Dukes, Rebecca Elson, Pamela Harrison, Dennis Held, Steve Kronen, Rennie McQuilkin, Carol Muske, Anne Pitkin, Robert Randolph, Michael Riley, May Sarton, R. Smith, Timothy Steele, Stephen Stepanchev, Ronald Wallace, Theodore Worozbyt, Steven Cramer

May Sarton, Now I Become Myself

“I never took permanent jobs in the academic world, which most poets have to do, not that they want to, and this has cost me something because the critical acclaim comes from the academic world, which launches a poet.” —May Sarton

May Sarton

May Sarton - wrote poetry, some about inevitable aging.