“AIDS” by May Sarton

A long-lived contributor to feminist literature, the English-Belgian poet Eleanore Marie "May" Sarton produced diaries, essays, fiction, and verse for some 65 years. A Belgian by birth, she emigrated with her parents from Wondelgem at age two during World War I and grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Unlike her thwarted mother, Mabel Elwes Sarton, who never fulfilled her promise as an art designer, May Sarton began writing verses in girlhood and knew instinctively that poetry would govern her life. Except for her 12th year spent in Belgium, she attended private American schools but rejected further education at ...