May Swenson: Collected Poems

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Publisher : Library of America
ISBN 13 : 1598532731
Total Pages : 976 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book May Swenson: Collected Poems written by May Swenson and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Complete Love Poems of May Swenson

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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618340842
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Love Poems of May Swenson written by May Swenson and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2003 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).

The Complete Poems to Solve

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Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9780027887259
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Poems to Solve written by May Swenson and published by Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Nature

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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618064083
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Nature written by May Swenson and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2000 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."

Poems to Solve

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Publisher : New York, Scribner 1966
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poems to Solve written by May Swenson and published by New York, Scribner 1966. This book was released on 1966 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Mrs. Ramsay's Knee

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Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1457174537
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (571 download)

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Book Synopsis Mrs. Ramsay's Knee by : Idris Anderson

Download or read book Mrs. Ramsay's Knee written by Idris Anderson and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2008-10-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Made with Words

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Made with Words written by May Swenson and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recovers poet May Swenson's fiction, criticism, and drama--and her correspondence with Elizabeth Bishop

Dear Elizabeth

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Dear Elizabeth written by May Swenson and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

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Publisher : Utah State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781607324867
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Body My House written by Paul Crumbley and published by Utah State University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Lame God

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Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1492000590
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Lame God written by M. B. McLatchey and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Neck of the World

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Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 0874216699
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (742 download)

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Book Synopsis Neck of the World by : F. Daniel Rzicznek

Download or read book Neck of the World written by F. Daniel Rzicznek and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2008-02-08 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."

New & Selected Things Taking Place

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Publisher : Boston : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 9780316825214
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book New & Selected Things Taking Place written by May Swenson and published by Boston : Little, Brown. This book was released on 1978 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Love Poems of May Swenson

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Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Love Poems of May Swenson written by May Swenson and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of sixty powerful love poems.

American Poetry: The Twentieth Century Vol. 2 (LOA #116)

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Publisher : Library of America: The Americ
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1064 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Book Synopsis American Poetry: The Twentieth Century Vol. 2 (LOA #116) by : Edward Estlin Cummings

Download or read book American Poetry: The Twentieth Century Vol. 2 (LOA #116) written by Edward Estlin Cummings and published by Library of America: The Americ. This book was released on 2000-03-20 with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthology of poems by 20th century American poets.

American Sports Poems

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Publisher : Orchard Books (NY)
ISBN 13 : 9780531083536
Total Pages : 252 pages
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Book Synopsis American Sports Poems by : Rozanne Ruth Knudson

Download or read book American Sports Poems written by Rozanne Ruth Knudson and published by Orchard Books (NY). This book was released on 1988 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems on sports, ranging from solo running, hunting, and fighting, to football and baseball from the spectator's point of view.

To Mix with Time

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Publisher : New York, Scribner [1963]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book To Mix with Time written by May Swenson and published by New York, Scribner [1963]. This book was released on 1963 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of poetry.

The Centaur

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Publisher : Utah State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874216486
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book The Centaur written by May Swenson and published by Utah State University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.