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."
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 Culled from Swenson's published poetry as well as from her unpublished manuscripts, the poems in this collection provide an intimate glimpse of one of the most beloved American poets of the twentieth century, "a poet of dazzling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).
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.
Author: May Swenson
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN:
Category : Love poetry, American
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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This is a collection of sixty powerful love poems.
Author: Tomas Tranströmer
Publisher: [Pittsburgh] : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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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.
Author: Archibald MacLeish
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395395691
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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This expanded volume of the distinguished poet's work contains 29 previously uncollected poems, some that had been published, and some found in manuscript after MacLeish's death in 1982. This is the definitive volume produced by a life that filled several careers as writer, teacher, and public servant, but was devoted above all to poetry.
Author: May Swenson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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An American imagist poet.
Author: Paul Crumbley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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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.
Author: May Swenson
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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From one of our country's most distinguished and celebrated poets, May Swenson, comes a major new book of poems to delight and enchant readers with its joyous and resonant style.
