Background
Getty, Sarah Sovereign was born on January 27, 1943 in Berwyn, Illinois, United States. Daughter of John Howard and Davina Graham (Ely) Sovereign.
(“*STAR*Getty, "Sarah. Bring Me Her Heart. May 2006. 108p....)
“*STAR*Getty, "Sarah. Bring Me Her Heart. May 2006. 108p. Higganum Hill Books, paper, $12.95 (0-9741158-8-6). Too many writers have been trapped by the advice that one should write about what one knows into writing about themselves. That they should instead interpret the old saw to mean that they ought to learn more is the lesson Getty's poetry resoundingly inculcates. Because she knows literary biography, she can write absorbing and thought-provoking dramatic monologues in the personas of the elderly Alice Liddell, who was Lewis Carroll's Alice when a child, and of Henry David Thoreau as the bothersome neighbor of Hawthorne and Emerson. Because she knows classic folk and fairy tales, she can sharply re-imagine Snow White in the title poem and the Frog Prince in "Conservation Frogs." Because she knows Greek religion, she can powerfully bring it to bear on her mother's decline and death and her own accommodation to it in the suite of poems comprising the third section of this book, "Eleusis." Because she knows her own mind, she can put in perspective even her dedication to poetry (see "The Earth Is Saying"). Because she has learned her craft, she makes meter, rhyme, and formal stanzas the vehicles of winning, natural expression. ** – Ray Olson”
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Getty, Sarah Sovereign was born on January 27, 1943 in Berwyn, Illinois, United States. Daughter of John Howard and Davina Graham (Ely) Sovereign.
Bachelor, Stanford University, 1965; Master of Arts, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1966; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1969.
Assistant professor, Rhode Island College, Providence, 1969-1976; project director, New England Foundation for Humanities, Boston, 1988-1992; program officer, New England Foundation for Humanities, Boston, 1992-1994; executive director, New England Foundation for Humanities, Boston, 1994-1996; manager foundation and government support, Museum Science, Boston, 1996-1998; associate director corporation and foundation relations, U. Massachusetts, Lowell, since 1998. Panelist, National Endowment for Humanities, Washington, 1994, 98.
(Sarah Getty's poems represent the work of the New Woman, ...)
(“*STAR*Getty, "Sarah. Bring Me Her Heart. May 2006. 108p....)
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Chair Bedford (Massachusetts) Open Space Committee, 1988-1993. Member Bedford Town Democratic Committee, since 1992. Member Unitarian Universalist Association (Melcher Award committee 1996-1998), Phi Beta Kappa.
Married David James Getty, June 12, 1965. 1 child, Lisa Elaine.