A collection of poems celebrates the magic and the mystery of the written word and features riddle poems and poems about animals, water, space, and more.

The Complete Poems to Solve

Children's Books

SWENSON, May

Literature & Fiction

Simon&Schuster

Scanning topics from a Navajo blanket to fashion in the seventies to an analysis of baseball to man's walk on the moon, Swenson views her poems as vital and living "things" acting out experiences on the written page

New and Selected Things Taking Place

Little,Brown & Co

Considers Florida, birds, boats, the past, birthdays, childhood, photographs, friendship, the desert, the space shuttle, death, time, and the stars

In Other Words

KNOPF

“Simply, this is the most moving book of love poems I have ever read. The poet who is justly honored for her ability to see and love each form of the world as ‘spotted, original, spare, strange’ was also all along, it turns out, trying to tell us what human love is in all its forms of feeling, from passion to peace. [The poems] are all wonderful, and their stumbles are as magnificent as their perfections.” ~~Mona Van Duyn

The Love Poems of May Swenson

Poetry

Houghton/Mifflin

A posthumous collection of 182 nature poems by one of the century's most respected poets includes many never-before-published works

Nature: Poems Old and New

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

A major posthumous collection, the first in a decade, of 182 nature poems by one of the century's most respected poets includes many never-before-published works, all capturing the freshness and excitement that mark her writing.

Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston

Made with Words (Poets On Poetry)

Made With Words collects prose by May Swenson (1919-89), whom critic and poet John Hollander has called "one of our few unquestionably major poets." Born in Logan, Utah, she spent most of her adult life living and writing in New York City. She was an editor for New Directions Paperbacks, and a writer-in-residence at numerous universities during the 1960s and 1970s. Throughout her long and illustrious career, Swenson produced nine volumes of verse, including New and Selected Things Taking Place and In Other Words: New Poems. She was a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, and received a multitude of grants and awards during her lifetime.Made with Words includes a rich assortment of Swenson's prose, including several short stories, by turns amusing, provocative, and poetic, and inextricably bound with her poetic oeuvre; a one-act play entitled The Floor, produced in New York in the mid-sixties; interviews and book reviews that shed light on Swenson's poetic development as well as her literary and artistic tastes; and finally, a collection of Swenson's letters to the poet Elizabeth Bishop that reveal the intricacies of three decades of their personal and professional relationship. The critical and biographical introduction provides an engaging glimpse into the creative life and prose work of an important contemporary American poet.Gardner McFall is Assistant Professor of Literature, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. She is the author of The Pilot's Daughter; Naming the Animals; and Jonathan's Cloud.

Made With Words (Poets on Poetry)

McFall, Gardner

History & Criticism

Univ of Michigan Pr

University of Michigan Press

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

American Sports Poems

Knudson, R. R.

Orchard Books

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."

Mariner Books

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The Complete Poems to Solve

New and Selected Things Taking Place

In Other Words

The Love Poems of May Swenson

Nature: Poems Old and New

Nature: Poems Old and New

Made With Words (Poets on Poetry)

Made with Words (Poets On Poetry)

American Sports Poems

Nature: Poems Old and New