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Made with words /

Swenson, May.

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Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Made with words // May Swenson ; Gardner McFall, editor.
Author:	Swenson, May.
other author:	McFall, Gardner.
Published:	Ann Arbor :University of Michigan Press, : c1998.,
Description:	255 p. :ill ;21 cm.
Subject:	Poetry - Authorship. -
ISBN:	0472096583

Made with words /
Swenson, May.

Made with words /May Swenson ; Gardner McFall, editor. - Ann Arbor :University of Michigan Press,c1998. - 255 p. :ill ;21 cm. - Poets on poetry. - Poets on poetry..

Fiction --

Made with Words collects prose by May Swenson (1913-89), whom critic and poet John Hollander has called "one of our few unquestionably major poets." Born in Logan, Utah, Swenson 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 numerous grants and awards during her lifetime.

ISBN: 0472096583

LCCN: 97039284Subjects--Personal Names:

3275979
Swenson, May
--Authorship.Subjects--Topical Terms:

593750
Poetry
--Authorship.

LC Class. No.: PS3537.W4786 / .Z47 1998

Made with words /
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520 # $a Made with Words collects prose by May Swenson (1913-89), whom critic and poet John Hollander has called "one of our few unquestionably major poets." Born in Logan, Utah, Swenson 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 numerous grants and awards during her lifetime.
520 8 $a Made with Words includes a rich assortment of Swenson's prose. There are several short stories, which are by turns amusing, provocative, and poetic and are 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 and 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.
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