COLLECTED POEMS

In celebration of the centenary of May Swensons birth, The Library of America presents a one-volume edition of all of the poems tha t Swenson published in her lifetimefrom her first collection Another Animal (1954) to the innovative shaped poems of Iconographs (1 970) to her final work In Other Words (1987)as well as a selection of previously uncollected work. The collection reveals the sweep ing compass of Swensons curiosity: nature poems display her keen observation of wildlife/ exuberant and erotic love poems celebrate beauty and ...[Llegir més]