Made with words /

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, a...

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Main Author: Swenson, May
Corporate Author: Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays (Brown University) Poetry, 1951-1975
Other Authors: McFall, Gardner
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [1998], ©1998
Ann Arbor : c1997
Ann Arbor : c1998
Ann Arbor : ©1998
Ann Arbor : [1998]
Series:Poets on poetry
Poets on poetry
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505 0 0 |g I  |t Fiction --  |t Mutterings of a Middlewoman --  |t Appearances --  |t From "Fables of Things" --  |t Power and the Danger --  |t From the Window --  |g II.  |t On Poets and Poetry --  |t Poem Happens to Me --  |t On Richard Wilbur's "Love Calls Us to the Things of This World" --  |t Matter of Diction --  |t Poet as Antispecialist --  |t Note about Iconographs --  |t Interview with Cornelia Draves and Mary Jane Fortunato --  |t Interview with Karla Hammond --  |t Term Line in Poetry --  |t Foreword --  |t "Big My Secret, but It's Bandaged" --  |t Sylvia Plath: A Recollection --  |g III.  |t Floor --  |g IV.  |t Letters to Elizabeth Bishop. 
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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 
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 1 |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." "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."--BOOK JACKET 
520 8 |a Made with Words includes a rich assortment of Swenson's prose 
520 8 |a 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 
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 
520 8 |a The critical and biographical introduction provides an engaging glimpse into the creative life and prose work of an important contemporary American poet 
520 8 |a 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 
520 8 |a 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 
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