Nature

Nature PDF Author: May Swenson
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618064083
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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NATURE, a major compendium of May Swenson's poems, including ten that appeared first in this collection, draws on nearly fifty years of work. "Surely no one, scientist or poet," wrote former U.S. poet laureate Howard Nemerov, "has seen things . . . so clearly as she, and surely no one has made seeing and saying so nearly one."

Nature

Nature PDF Author: May Swenson
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618064083
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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NATURE, a major compendium of May Swenson's poems, including ten that appeared first in this collection, draws on nearly fifty years of work. "Surely no one, scientist or poet," wrote former U.S. poet laureate Howard Nemerov, "has seen things . . . so clearly as she, and surely no one has made seeing and saying so nearly one."

The Complete Love Poems of May Swenson

The Complete Love Poems of May Swenson PDF Author: May Swenson
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618340842
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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Collected here are the complete love poems of May Swenson -- poems full of kindness, of sensuousness, of gentle affection, of love satisfied. As Maxine Kumin writes in her foreword to this collection, "the majority of Swenson's love poems are human you-and-I poems, exquisitely tender and understated." Culled from Swenson's published poetry as well as from her unpublished manuscripts, the poems in this collection provide an intimate glimpse of one of the most beloved American poets of the twentieth century, "a poet of dazzling gifts" (Joyce Carol Oates).

May Swenson: Collected Poems

May Swenson: Collected Poems PDF Author: May Swenson
Publisher: Library of America
ISBN: 1598532731
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 976

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In celebration of the centenary of May Swenson’s birth, The Library of America presents a one-volume edition of all of the poems that Swenson published in her lifetime—from her first collection Another Animal (1954) to the innovative shaped poems of Iconographs (1970) to her final work In Other Words (1987)—as well as a selection of previously uncollected work. The collection reveals the sweeping compass of Swenson’s curiosity: nature poems display her keen observation of wildlife; exuberant and erotic love poems celebrate beauty and passion; place poems record her travels to the American Southwest, France, and Italy and her residence in New York City and Sea Cliff, Long Island; verse “analyses” investigate baseball, wave motion, the DNA molecule, bronco busting, James Bond movies, and the first walk on the moon. Swenson was an inveterate reviser: poems in earlier volumes were frequently reworked for inclusion in later volumes, such as To Mix with Time (1963) and New and Selected Things Taking Place (1978). While preserving the order of publication, this volume presents the author’s final or definitive version. Substantive textual variants and title changes are detailed in the notes to the volume.

New & Selected Things Taking Place

New & Selected Things Taking Place PDF Author: May Swenson
Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown
ISBN: 9780316825214
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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The Complete Poems to Solve

The Complete Poems to Solve PDF Author: May Swenson
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
ISBN: 9780027887259
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This wonderful read-aloud volume introduces a new generation of youngsters to the work of May Swenson, the widely honored American poet who spent a lifetime celebrating the magic and mystery of the written word. Here are riddle poems, poems about animals, water, space, and more--each one is a poem to solve.

Made with Words

Made with Words PDF Author: May Swenson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Recovers poet May Swenson's fiction, criticism, and drama--and her correspondence with Elizabeth Bishop

Mrs. Ramsay's Knee

Mrs. Ramsay's Knee PDF Author: Idris Anderson
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 1457174537
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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Volume 12 in the Swenson Poetry Award Series, Mrs. Ramsay's Knee offers fresh and elegant poems by Idris anderson, many of them ekphrastic considerations of visual works of art. Among her subjects are paintings by Rembrandt, Rousseau, Pollock, and Chagall, yet she equally explores a set of news photos from the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah.

Poems to Solve

Poems to Solve PDF Author: May Swenson
Publisher: New York, Scribner 1966
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Each of the 35 selections in this collection is a poem to solve. Pointing out the fact that more is hidden in poetry than in prose, Swenson offers first a group of riddle poems, in which the subject is not named in either the title or text, followed by other verses all of which contain various hidden elements of meaning.

Dear Elizabeth

Dear Elizabeth PDF Author: May Swenson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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In Dear Elizabeth, three letters and five poems from Swenson to Bishop, including an unfinished draft never published before, are gathered into one small volume with an insightful essay by scholar and poet Kirstin Hotelling Zona. This brief but intense collection offers a surprising and revealing glimpse of a complicated relationship between two very different women and very different poets, both of whom made unquestionably major contributions to American poetry of the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.

Body My House

Body My House PDF Author: Paul Crumbley
Publisher: Utah State University Press
ISBN: 9781607324867
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The first collection of critical essays on May Swenson and her literary universe, Body My House initiates an academic conversation about an unquestionably major poet of the middle and late twentienth century. Between the 1950s and the 1980s, May Swenson produced eleven volumes of poetry, received many major awards, was elected chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, and was acclaimed by writers in virtually every school of American poetry. Essays here address the breadth of Swenson's literary corpus and offer varied scholarly approaches to it. They reference Swenson manuscripts---poems, letters, diaries, and other prose---some of which have not been widely available before. Chapters focus on Swenson's work as a nature writer; the literary and social contexts of her writing; her national and international acclaim; her work as a translator; associations with other poets and writers (Bishop, Moore, and others); her creative process; and her profound explorations of gender and sexuality. The first full volume of scholarship on May Swenson, Body My House suggest an ambitious agenda for further work. Contributors include Mark Doty, Gudrun Grabher, Cynthia Hogue, Suzann Juhasz, R.R. Knudson, Alicia Ostriker, Martha Nell Smith, Michael Spooner, Paul Swenson, and Kirstin Hotelling Zona.