Publisher Description
Sara Trevor Teasdale was a Pulitzer Prize–winning poet. Despite her success, she became deeply unhappy, divorced her husband, and overdosed on sleeping pills two years after the suicide of her friend and fellow poet, Vachel Lindsay. This collection brings seventy-two of Teasdale’s poems to life.
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About Sara Teasdale
Sara
Trevor Teasdale (1884–1933) was born in St Louis,
Missouri. A child of poor health she was fourteen years old when she was well
enough to begin school. Her first poetry publication was in 1907, with her
second book in 1911. She was courted by Vachel Lindsay, a great poet, but one
who thought he could not provide a suitable standard of living. So Sara married
Ernst Filsinger and the couple moved to New York City. In 1917 she released the
poetry collection Love Songs, and the
following year it won three awards: the Columbia University Poetry Society
prize, the 1918 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, and the annual prize of the Poetry
Society of America.
About Ghizela Rowe
Ghizela Rowe has worked in broadcast
television for thirty years on a broad range of programming. Her specialization
is in music. She helps run the Copyright Group, an extensive collection of
master recording rights, and has lent her voice to many audiobooks, including The Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
Elizabeth Gaskell: The Short Stories, and The Romantics: An Introduction.