May Swenson Collected Poems

Author : May Swenson
Publisher : Library of America
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781598532739

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May Swenson: Collected Poems (LOA #239) by May Swenson Pdf

Often compared to the works of E.E. Cummings and Elizabeth Bishop, these poems are a free-ranging exploration of outer and inner worlds, of nature and the human mind 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. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

Author : May Swenson
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 061834084X

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The Complete Love Poems of May Swenson by May Swenson Pdf

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 : Boston : Little, Brown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 0316825212

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New & Selected Things Taking Place by May Swenson Pdf

Author : May Swenson
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0618064087

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Nature by May Swenson Pdf

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,Gardner McFall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:39015039928729

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Made with Words by May Swenson,Gardner McFall Pdf

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

Author : May Swenson
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 0027887251

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The Complete Poems to Solve by May Swenson Pdf

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 : Paul Crumbley,Patricia M Gantt
Publisher : Utah State University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1607324865

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Body My House by Paul Crumbley,Patricia M Gantt Pdf

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 : F. Daniel Rzicznek
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008-02-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780874216691

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Neck of the World by F. Daniel Rzicznek Pdf

Neck of the World is the eleventh volume in the prestigious May Swenson Poetry Award series. In it, Daniel Rzicznek offers poems that, in quick angular language, capture the natural world and at the same time extend it into a surreal vision, sometimes dream-like, sometimes dark. Alice Quinn, judge for the 2007 Swenson Award, says this of Rzicznek’s work: “Throughout, the language pulsates, always vigorous, by turns knotty and crystalline. . . . In Neck of the World, we have a poet with a striking new vision--challenging, rewarding, and bold."

Author : M. B. McLatchey
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781492000594

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The Lame God by M. B. McLatchey Pdf

In The Lame God, author M. B. McLatchey reminds us of the inevitable bond between art and empathy. With a controlled language that finds its echo chamber in the immortal themes and characters of classical literature, this courageous work accompanies the author on her journey through a parent’s anguish in the face of a horrific crime. Using the art of poetry she gives voice to a suffering—and a love—that might otherwise go unheard. The May Swenson Poetry Award, an annual competition named for May Swenson, honors her as one of America's most provocative and vital writers. During her long career, Swenson was loved and praised by writers from virtually every school of American poetry. She left a legacy of fifty years of writing when she died in 1989. She is buried in Logan, Utah, her hometown.

Author : May Swenson
Publisher : New York, Scribner 1966
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : American poetry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012077090

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Poems to Solve by May Swenson Pdf

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.

Author : May Swenson
Publisher : New York, Scribner [1963]
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : American poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015005105591

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To Mix with Time by May Swenson Pdf

Collection of poetry.

Author : May Swenson
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015022007911

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The Love Poems of May Swenson by May Swenson Pdf

This is a collection of sixty powerful love poems.

Author : Rozanne Ruth Knudson
Publisher : Orchard Books (NY)
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Children's poetry, American
ISBN : 0531083535

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American Sports Poems by Rozanne Ruth Knudson Pdf

A collection of poems on sports, ranging from solo running, hunting, and fighting, to football and baseball from the spectator's point of view.

Author : May Swenson
Publisher : Utah State University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0874216486

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The Centaur by May Swenson Pdf

Can it be there was only one summer that I was ten? First published in 1956, May Swenson’s "The Centaur" remains one of her most popular and most anthologized poems. This is its first appearance as a picture book for children. In images bright and brisk and tangible, the poet re-creates the joy of riding a stick horse through a small-town summer. We find ourselves, with her, straddling “a long limber horse with . . . a few leaves for a tail,” and pounding through the lovely dust along the path by the old canal. As her shape shifts from child to horse and back, we know exactly what she feels. Sherry Meidell’s water-color illustrations perfectly convey the wit and beauty of May Swenson’s poem. These are playful, satisfying images full of vitality and imagination. Meidell handles the joy of poem’s fantasy and the joy of its occasional naughtiness with equal success.

Author : Tomas Tranströmer
Publisher : [Pittsburgh] : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015005595684

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Windows & Stones by Tomas Tranströmer Pdf