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May Swenson
(1919 - 1989)

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May Swenson was born in Logan, Utah, on May 28, 1919. She attended Utah State University, Logan, and received a bachelor's degree in 1939. She taught poetry at Bryn Mawr, the University of North Carolina, the University of California at Riverside, Purdue University and Utah State University and was .. .. more >>

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"Body my house
my horse my hound
what will I do
when you are fallen"
May Swenson (1919-1995), U.S. poet. Question (l. 1-4). . . New Poets of England and America. Donald Hall, Robert Pack, and Louis Simpson, eds. (1957) Meridian Books.

"I was the horse and the rider,
and the leather I slapped to his rump

spanked my own behind."
May Swenson (1919-1995), U.S. poet. The Centaur (l. 38-40). . . No More Masks! an Anthology of Poems by Women. Florence Howe and Ellen Bass, eds. (1973) Doubleday Anchor Books.

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Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - May Swenson
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May Swenson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A word-poem or iconograph by May Swenson, Unconscious came a beauty (1970), featuring a butterfly, referred to as Red spotted purple or Mourning cloak. ...
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May Swenson
Editor's Note: We publish posthumously a group of hitherto unpublished poems of May Swenson followed by a literary memoir written by her writer/editor ...
http://weberstudies.weber.edu/archive/archive%20a%20%20vol.%201-10.3/vol.%208.1/8.1%20swenson.htm

Poetry Foundation: The online home of the Poetry Foundation
During her prolific career, May Swenson received numerous literary .... May out West: Poems of May Swenson, Utah State University Press (Logan, UT), 1996. ...
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