The Complete Love Poems of May Swenson
by Swenson, MayEdition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-08-15
Publisher(s): Lightning Source Inc
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Summary
Collected here are the complete love poems of May Swenson -- poems full of kindness, of sensuousness, of gentle affection, of love satisfied. As Maxine Kumin writes in her foreword to this collection, "the majority of Swenson's love poems are human you-and-I poems, exquisitely tender and understated." Culled from Swenson's published poetry as well as from her unpublished manuscripts, the poems in this collection provide an intimate glimpse of one of the most beloved American poets of the twentieth century, "a poet of dazzling gifts" (Joyce Carol Oates).
Author Biography
May Swenson (1913-1989) received many awards for her work, among them the Bollingen Prize and a MacArthur Fellowship. She published eleven volumes of poems during her lifetime.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | |
| Four-Word Lines | p. 1 |
| Mornings Innocent | p. 2 |
| Swimmers | p. 3 |
| Early Morning: Cape Cod | p. 4 |
| One Morning in New Hampshire | p. 6 |
| Early Day of Summer | p. 8 |
| A Loaf of Time | p. 10 |
| In the Yard | p. 12 |
| A Couple | p. 14 |
| Cafe Tableau | p. 16 |
| Our Forward Shadows | p. 18 |
| Organs | p. 20 |
| Facing | p. 21 |
| Wednesday at the Waldorf | p. 22 |
| To F. | p. 23 |
| He That None Can Capture | p. 24 |
| August Night | p. 25 |
| Fireflies | p. 26 |
| In Love Made Visible | p. 27 |
| Year of the Double Spring | p. 28 |
| The School of Desire | p. 30 |
| Poet to Tiger | p. 32 |
| A History of Love | p. 36 |
| Another Animal | p. 38 |
| Secure | p. 40 |
| You Are | p. 41 |
| The Tiger's Ghost | p. 45 |
| The Pregnant Dream | p. 46 |
| Wild Water | p. 48 |
| Stone or Flame | p. 49 |
| The Key to Everything | p. 50 |
| The Willets | p. 52 |
| Holding the Towel | p. 53 |
| The Indivisible Incompatibles | p. 54 |
| Birthday Bush | p. 55 |
| Little Lion Face | p. 56 |
| Mortal Surge | p. 58 |
| All That Time | p. 60 |
| Dreams and Ashes | p. 62 |
| Untitled | p. 63 |
| Satanic Form | p. 64 |
| Night Before the Journey | p. 65 |
| The Shape of Death | p. 66 |
| Symmetrical Companion | p. 68 |
| Evolution | p. 71 |
| Annual | p. 72 |
| Neither Wanting More | p. 74 |
| Because I Don't Know | p. 75 |
| A Trellis for R. | p. 76 |
| Love Is | p. 77 |
| Dark Wild Honey | p. 78 |
| Cat and I | p. 79 |
| To Confirm a Thing | p. 80 |
| Good Things Come from Thee | p. 82 |
| Equilibrist | p. 83 |
| The Winepress | p. 84 |
| The Kiss | p. 86 |
| At First, at Last | p. 87 |
| To a Dark Girl | p. 88 |
| Love Sleeping | p. 90 |
| Coda to J. | p. 91 |
| Who Are You I Saw Running? | p. 92 |
| We Arise from the Pit of Night | p. 93 |
| Beast | p. 94 |
| Standing Torso | p. 96 |
| Under the Best of Circumstances | p. 98 |
| Sketch for a Landscape | p. 100 |
| Daffodildo | p. 101 |
| Found in Diary Dated May 29, 1973 | p. 105 |
| Somebody Who's Somebody | p. 106 |
| Laocoon Dream Recorded in Diary Dated 1943 | p. 109 |
| A Pair | p. 111 |
| Close-up of a Couple on a Couch | p. 112 |
| The Little Rapids | p. 115 |
| This Is What My Love Is Thinking | p. 117 |
| Strawberrying | p. 118 |
| The Lone Pedestrian | p. 120 |
| Not the Dress | p. 126 |
| Bleeding | p. 127 |
| Zambesi and Ranee | p. 128 |
| Goodnight | p. 130 |
| Horse | p. 131 |
| A New Pair | p. 132 |
| The Rest of My Life | p. 133 |
| Digging in the Garden of Age I Uncover a Live Root | p. 137 |
| Sleeping with Boa | p. 138 |
| The Red Bird Tapestry | p. 139 |
| Asleep | p. 140 |
| Incantation | p. 141 |
| Evening Wind | p. 142 |
| Say You Love | p. 143 |
| Index | p. 144 |
| About the Poet | p. 146 |
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