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STUDIES: Joint Memories
Somehow, This Soft Summer Night (Germany) Margaret Schuyler Sternbergh wrote these poems over the course of her life. Written at a time when women were by Margaret Schuyler Sternbergh meant to be docile and submissive, they reveal a vital and passionate spirit.
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They touch on the death of night a child, on the joy of love, Somehow, this soft summer and the pain of unrequited love, on the wonder of man, and despair at his destructiveness. I feel the pain revealnever a life-long struggle for justice Soft and goodness. Of men’s bodiesTheyas before: as this Not discovered until after her death, the poems are sweet airfor their lyrical beauty and intensity of feeling. remarkable Their flesh brittleof herbone, They are presented with here as a remembrance indomitable spirit. Set and joined and woven as mine (Lying lazily on this bone, sofather, brittle Margaretcounterpane). Schuyler Sternbergh lived Brittle from 1887 until 1982. Her James Hervey Sternbergh was the founder of the Reading Bolt and running through. Perishable! Nut Works which later became Bethlehem Steel.Water, Her mother,dust Mary of Candace Dodds, was the oldest of twelve children born on a farm in minerals Flowered into form, Burlington, Vermont. Margaret, or Mardi as she was known, attended National Cathedral School inof Washington, as a high teenager, But,thethough the pain theseD.C. flare and then boarding school in Weisbaden, Germany. And simultaneous these bodies She was an independent spirit, an artist, a musician and a poet, Yield to discontinuity and die, a woman beyond her time. StillThese is the spiritual fort imperishable poems, dedicated to her beloved sister, Gertrude, were not found until after her death. flashes They are published here now in her honor. Turned light that Over this pain—that is no more … ISBN: 978-1-4363-9611-0
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