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May Swenson
(May 28, 1919 - December 4, 1989) U.S.A.

May Swenson

Poet

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Born and reared in Utah of Swedish parents who were Mormons. Her poems are oracular, imagistic, and marked by experimentalism in technique and typography of shaped forms. She also wrote riddles for children and translated Sweedish poetry. May was a co-winner of the Bollingen Prize (1979-80).

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Work:

  • Another Animal (1954)
  • A Cage of Spines (1958)
  • To Mix with Time (1963)
  • Poems to Solve (1966)
  • Half Sun Half Sleep (1967)
  • Iconographs (1970)
  • More Poems to Solve (1971)
  • Windows and Stones (1972)
  • New and Selecte Things Taking Place (1979)
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