Bibliography
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POETRY
- Another Animal, Scribner (New York, NY), 1954.
- A Cage of Spines, Rinehart (New York, NY), 1958.
- To Mix with Time: New and Selected Poems, Scribner (New York, NY), 1963.
- Poems to Solve (for young adults), Scribner (New York, NY), 1966.
- Half Sun, Half Sleep; New poems (new poems and her translations of six Swedish poets), Scribner (New York, NY), 1967.
- Iconographs; Poems (includes "Feel Me"), Scribner (New York, NY), 1970.
- More Poems to Solve, Scribner (New York, NY), 1971.
- (Translator, with Leif Sjoberg) Windows and Stones, Selected Poems of Tomas Transtromer (translated from the Swedish), University of Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh, PA), 1972.
- New and Selected Things Taking Place (includes "Ending"), Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1978.
- In Other Words, Knopf (New York, NY), 1987.
- The Love Poems of May Swenson, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1991.
- The Complete Poems to Solve (for young adults), illustrated by Christy Hale, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1993.
- Nature: Poems Old and New, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1994.
- The Centaur, illustrated by Barry Moser, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1994.
- May out West: Poems of May Swenson, Utah State University Press (Logan, UT), 1996.
- Dear Elizabeth: Five Poems and Three Letters to Elizabeth Bishop, afterword by Kirstin Hotelling Zona, Utah State University Press (Logan, UT), 2000.
- The Complete Love Poems of May Swenson, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 2003.
OTHER
- The Floor (one-act play), first produced under the program title Doubles and Opposites in New York at American Place Theater, May 11, 1966, on a triple bill with "23 Pat O'Brien Movies," by Bruce Jay Friedman, and "Miss Pete," by Andrew Glaze.
- The Guess and Spell Coloring Book (for children), drawings by Lise Gladstone, Scribner (New York, NY), 1976.
- (Selector of poems, with R. R. Knudson) American Sports Poems, Orchard Books (New York, NY), 1988.
- Made with Words, edited by Gardner McFall, University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor, MI), 1997.
CONTRIBUTOR
- A Treasury of Great Poems, edited by Louis Untermeyer, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1955.
- New Poets 2, Ballantine (New York, NY), 1957.
- New Poets of England and America, edited by Donald Hall, Robert Pack, and Louis Simpson, Meridian (New York, NY), 1957.
- A Country in the Mind, edited by Ray B. West, Angel Island Publications (Sausalito, CA), 1962.
- Twentieth-Century American Poetry, edited by Conrad Aiken, Modern Library (New York, NY), 1963.
- 100 American Poems of the Twentieth Century, Harcourt (Orlando, FL), 1963.
- The Modern Poets, edited by John Malcolm Brinnin and Bill Read, McGraw-Hill (New York, NY), 1963.
- The New Modern Poetry, edited by M. L. Rosenthal, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1967.
Works represented in other anthologies. Poems also included in translation in anthologies published in Italy and Germany. Contributor of poetry, stories, and criticism to Poetry, Nation, Saturday Review, Atlantic, Harper's, New Yorker, Southern Review, Hudson Review, and other periodicals. Swenson also produced sound recordings, including May Swenson Reading Her Poems in New York City, March 15, 1958; The Experience of Poetry in A Scientific Age, 1964; May Swenson Reading Her Poems with Comment in the Recording Laboratory, May 12, 1969; and Julia Randall and May Swenson Reading and Discussing Their Poems in the Coolidge Auditorium, February 16, 1970. Swenson's work is included in the sound recording Today's Poets: Their Poems, Their Voices, Volume 2, Scholastic Records, 1968, and recordings for the Library of Congress, Spoken Arts Records, Folkways Records, and others. Her poems have been set to music by Otto Leuning, Howard Swanson, Emerson Meyers, Joyce McKeel, Claudio Spies, Lester Trimble, and Warren Benson.
