Swenson, May
Overview
| Works: | 480 works in 701 publications in 2 languages and 17,033 library holdings |
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| Genres: | Poetry Juvenile works Concrete poetry Visual poetry Riddles Musical settings Love poetry Records and correspondence Songs Art music |
| Roles: | Author, Performer, Author of introduction, Translator, Lyricist, Librettist, Former owner, Signer, Other, Editor |
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Most widely held works about
May Swenson
- Body my house : May Swenson's work and life by Patricia M Gantt( )
- Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and May Swenson : the feminist poetics of self-restraint by Kirstin Hotelling Zona( Book )
- Made with words by May Swenson( Book )
- Solo and chamber works by Ethan Haimo( )
- Music of Claudio Spies by Claudio Spies( Recording )
- May Swenson : a poet's life in photos by R. R Knudson( Book )
- The wonderful pen of May Swenson by R. R Knudson( Book )
- 100 greatest dance hits by Aaron Jay Kernis( Recording )
- The sun is love : song cycles and piano music by Gwyneth Walker( Recording )
- The poetry of May Swenson by May Swenson( Recording )
- A Study Guide for May Swensen's ""Fable for When There's No Way Out"" by Cengage Learning Gale( )
- A Study Guide for May Swenson's ""The Centaur"" by Cengage Learning Gale( )
- Collected songs : for medium-low voice and piano by Gwyneth Walker( )
- STUDY GUIDE FOR MAY SWENSON'S "QUESTION." by Cengage Learning Gale( )
- Vocal and piano music by Claudio Spies( Recording )
- Beyond baroque( )
- Let us now sing! : choral selections by Gwyneth Walker( Recording )
- The art of Sylvia Plath : selected poems and essays on her work by Sylvia Plath( Book )
- Letters to the future : for men's chorus, 3 synthesizers, electric bass, and drums by Roger Bourland( )
- [Conversation and poetry reading by May Swenson( Recording )
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Most widely held works by
May Swenson
American poetry : the twentieth century(
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1 edition published in 2000 in English and held by 2,355 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Contains over 1500 poems by more than 200 well-known American poets, including Langston Hughes, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, and Wallace Stevens
1 edition published in 2000 in English and held by 2,355 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Contains over 1500 poems by more than 200 well-known American poets, including Langston Hughes, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, and Wallace Stevens
Spoon River anthology by
Edgar Lee Masters(
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28 editions published between 1962 and 2004 in 3 languages and held by 1,287 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A series of character sketches which reveal the life of a village community in the Midwest. They are in the form of epitaphs in verse
28 editions published between 1962 and 2004 in 3 languages and held by 1,287 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A series of character sketches which reveal the life of a village community in the Midwest. They are in the form of epitaphs in verse
American sports poems by
May Swenson(
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2 editions published between 1987 and 1988 in English and held by 1,083 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A collection of poems on sports, ranging from solo running, hunting, and fighting, to football and baseball from the spectator's point of view
2 editions published between 1987 and 1988 in English and held by 1,083 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A collection of poems on sports, ranging from solo running, hunting, and fighting, to football and baseball from the spectator's point of view
The centaur by
May Swenson(
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9 editions published between 1911 and 2007 in English and held by 1,001 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Re-creates the joy of riding a stick horse through a small-town summer
9 editions published between 1911 and 2007 in English and held by 1,001 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Re-creates the joy of riding a stick horse through a small-town summer
New & selected things taking place : poems by
May Swenson(
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10 editions published in 1978 in English and held by 925 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
10 editions published in 1978 in English and held by 925 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
To mix with time : new and selected poems by
May Swenson(
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13 editions published between 1963 and 1964 in English and held by 882 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Collection of poetry
13 editions published between 1963 and 1964 in English and held by 882 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Collection of poetry
Nature : poems old and new by
May Swenson(
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9 editions published between 1993 and 2000 in English and Undetermined and held by 783 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"What Swenson responds to and values in the world, its essential freedom," writes Susan Mitchell in her foreword to Nature, "is the very quality that is most striking in her as a poet. ... This is a world looked at through love, through generosity of spirit." Nature, the first major compendium of May Swenson's poems in a decade, concentrates on 182 magnificent nature poems drawn from nearly fifty years of work. Swenson, who died in 1989, ranks among the foremost poets of this century; she is certainly one of the most sensuous and joyful and has a huge following
9 editions published between 1993 and 2000 in English and Undetermined and held by 783 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"What Swenson responds to and values in the world, its essential freedom," writes Susan Mitchell in her foreword to Nature, "is the very quality that is most striking in her as a poet. ... This is a world looked at through love, through generosity of spirit." Nature, the first major compendium of May Swenson's poems in a decade, concentrates on 182 magnificent nature poems drawn from nearly fifty years of work. Swenson, who died in 1989, ranks among the foremost poets of this century; she is certainly one of the most sensuous and joyful and has a huge following
Collected poems by
May Swenson(
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4 editions published in 2013 in English and held by 710 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The first comprehensive edition of May Swenson's work, gathering all of the poems she published in the collections Another Animal (1954), A Cage of Spines (1958), To Mix with Time (1963), Half Sun Half Sleep (1967), Iconographs (1970), New and Selected Things Taking Place (1978), and In Other Words (1987), as well as an extensive selection of previously uncollected poems
4 editions published in 2013 in English and held by 710 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The first comprehensive edition of May Swenson's work, gathering all of the poems she published in the collections Another Animal (1954), A Cage of Spines (1958), To Mix with Time (1963), Half Sun Half Sleep (1967), Iconographs (1970), New and Selected Things Taking Place (1978), and In Other Words (1987), as well as an extensive selection of previously uncollected poems
Iconographs : poems by
May Swenson(
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8 editions published in 1970 in English and Undetermined and held by 584 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
8 editions published in 1970 in English and Undetermined and held by 584 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Half sun, half sleep : new poems by
May Swenson(
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9 editions published in 1967 in English and Undetermined and held by 518 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
9 editions published in 1967 in English and Undetermined and held by 518 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Poems to solve by
May Swenson(
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8 editions published between 1966 and 1975 in English and held by 516 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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
8 editions published between 1966 and 1975 in English and held by 516 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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
The love poems of May Swenson by
May Swenson(
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8 editions published between 1991 and 1992 in English and Undetermined and held by 410 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
8 editions published between 1991 and 1992 in English and Undetermined and held by 410 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The complete poems to solve by
May Swenson(
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4 editions published between 1993 and 1998 in English and held by 325 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A selection of the author's poetry, largely dealing with nature, which challenges the reader to guess the subject of each poem or a meaning not immediately obvious
4 editions published between 1993 and 1998 in English and held by 325 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A selection of the author's poetry, largely dealing with nature, which challenges the reader to guess the subject of each poem or a meaning not immediately obvious
More poems to solve by
May Swenson(
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3 editions published in 1971 in English and held by 323 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A collection of unusual poems, challenging the reader to decipher their meaning using shape and word clues
3 editions published in 1971 in English and held by 323 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A collection of unusual poems, challenging the reader to decipher their meaning using shape and word clues
A cage of spines by
May Swenson(
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5 editions published in 1958 in English and held by 260 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
5 editions published in 1958 in English and held by 260 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Of color braided all desire : music by
Eric Moe(
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3 editions published in 2015 in No Linguistic content and English and held by 260 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
3 editions published in 2015 in No Linguistic content and English and held by 260 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
May out west : poems of May Swenson by
May Swenson(
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3 editions published in 1996 in English and held by 211 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A collection of Swenson's work about the West--the place of birth and of deep inspiration to her--into a memorable and inspiring work. Included are some Of her best-known poems, along with some that have never been collected before
3 editions published in 1996 in English and held by 211 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A collection of Swenson's work about the West--the place of birth and of deep inspiration to her--into a memorable and inspiring work. Included are some Of her best-known poems, along with some that have never been collected before
Dear Elizabeth : five poems & three letters to Elizabeth Bishop by
May Swenson(
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4 editions published in 2000 in English and held by 159 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Between 1950 and 1979, May Swenson and Elizabeth Bishop exchanged over 260 letters. Their letters have interested scholars of American poetry for the commentary they contain on important work that each poet was publishing at the time, but equally for what these letters reveal about the relationship between the two writers. 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
4 editions published in 2000 in English and held by 159 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Between 1950 and 1979, May Swenson and Elizabeth Bishop exchanged over 260 letters. Their letters have interested scholars of American poetry for the commentary they contain on important work that each poet was publishing at the time, but equally for what these letters reveal about the relationship between the two writers. 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
The complete love poems of May Swenson by
May Swenson(
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3 editions published in 2003 in English and held by 153 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
3 editions published in 2003 in English and held by 153 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Vocal and piano music by
Claudio Spies(
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4 editions published between 1980 and 1981 in English and held by 111 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
4 editions published between 1980 and 1981 in English and held by 111 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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American poetry American poetry--Women authors Authorship Bishop, Elizabeth, Cello and piano music Cemeteries Children's poetry, American Cities and towns City and town life Concrete poetry Dead English horn and oboe music Epitaphs Feminism and literature Feminist poetry, American Flute and violin music Hadrian,--Emperor of Rome, Illinois Love poetry, American Middle West Moore, Marianne, Percussion ensembles Percussion music Piano music Poetry Poetry--Authorship Poetry of places Poets, American Self-control in literature Shakespeare, William, Sonatas (Piano) Song cycles Songs (High voice) with instrumental ensemble Songs (High voice) with piano Songs (Medium voice) with piano Sports String quartets String trios Swenson, May Thomas, Dylan, United States United States, West Viola and cello music Viola and piano music Violin and piano music Visual poetry Vocal quartets, Unaccompanied Vocal quartets with piano Women and literature Women poets, American
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May Swenson American poet
May Swenson amerikansk poet
May Swenson poetessa, drammaturga e traduttrice statunitense
May Swenson poétesse américaine
May Swenson poetisa estadounidense
May Swenson US-American poet
May Swenson US-amerikanische Dichterin
Swensen, May 1913-1989
Swenson, Anna Thilda May.
Swenson, Anna Thilda May, 1913-1989
Swenson, May.
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