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May Swenson
(1919 - 1989 / Utah / United States)
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6 poems of May Swenson
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''Body my house
my horse my hound
what will I do
when you are fallen''
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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. (19...
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''I was the horse and the rider,
and the leather I slapped to his rump
spanked my own behind.''
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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. ...
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''quiet, negligent riding,
my toes standing the stirrups,
my thighs hugging his ribs.''
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May Swenson (1919-1995), U.S. poet. The Centaur (l. 46-48). . .
No More Masks! an Anthology of Poems by Women. Florence Howe and Ellen Bass, eds. ...
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''Go tie back your hair, said my mother,
and Why is your mouth all green?
Rob Roy, he pulled some clover
as we crossed the field, I told her.''
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May Swenson (1919-1995), U.S. poet. The Centaur (l. 61-64). . .
No More Masks! an Anthology of Poems by Women. Florence Howe and Ellen Bass, eds. ...
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''The summer that I was ten—
Can it be there was only one
summer that I was ten? It must
have been a long one then—''
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May Swenson (1919-1995), U.S. poet. The Centaur (l. 1-4). . .
No More Masks! an Anthology of Poems by Women. Florence Howe and Ellen Bass, eds. (1...
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