May Swenson

Born in May 28, 1913 / Died in December 4, 1989 / United States / English

Brinnin, John Malcolm, and Bill Read, editors, The Modern Poets, McGraw-Hill (New York, NY), 1963.
Contemporary Literary Criticism, Gale (Detroit, MI), Volume 4, 1975, Volume 14, 1980, Volume 61, 1990.
Contemporary Poets, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1980.
Deutsch, Babette, editor, Poetry in Our Time, 2nd edition, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1963.
Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 5: American Poets since World War II, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1980.
Encyclopedia of American Literature, Continuum (New York, NY), 1999.
Hoffman, Daniel, editor, The Harvard Guide to American Writing, Belknap Press (Cambridge, MA), 1977.
Nemerov, Howard, editor, Poets on Poetry, Basic Books (New York, NY), 1966.
Poems for Young Readers: Selections from Their Own Writing by Poets Attending the Houston Festival of Contemporary Poetry, National Council of Teachers of English, 1966.
Stepanchev, Stephen, American Poetry since 1945, Harper (New York, NY), 1965.
Untermeyer, Louis, editor, A Treasury of Great Poems, English and American, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1955.

PERIODICALS

American Book Review, September, 1995, p. 14.
Atlantic, February, 1968.
Booklist, June 1, 1993.
Book Week, June 4, 1967, Volume 4, number 30.
Book World, May 22, 1988, Thomas M. Disch, review of In Other Words, pp. 1, 14.
Christian Science Monitor, February 12, 1979.
Library Journal, June 15, 1994, Judy Clarence, review of Nature: Poems Old and New, p. 72.
Los Angeles Times, March 22, 1979.
New Republic, March 7, 1988, Mary Jo Salter, review of In Other Words, p. 40.
New York Times, March 19, 1979; June 16, 1987.
New York Times Book Review, September 1, 1963; May 7, 1967; February 11, 1979; June 12, 1988; January 19, 1992.
Poetry, December, 1967; February, 1979; February, 1993; November, 2001, Christian Wiman, review of Nature, p. 97.
Prairie Schooner, spring, 1968.
Publishers Weekly, May 30, 1994, review of Nature, pp. 46-47.
Tri-Quarterly, fall, 1966.
Twentieth Century Literature, summer, 1998, Kirstin Hotelling Zona, "A 'Dangerous Game of Change': Images of Desire in the Love Poems of May Swenson," p. 219.
Wilson Quarterly, winter, 1997, review of May Swenson: Selected and Introduced by Anthony Hecht, p. 105.
Women's Review of Books, January, 1995, pp. 8-9.
Yale Review, January, 1995, pp. 121-41.

ONLINE

Academy of American Poets Web site, http://www.poets.org/ (June 3, 2003), author profile.
University of Michigan Press Web site, http://www.press.umich.edu/ (June 3, 2003), review of Made with Words.
Utah State University Press Web site, http://www.usu.edu/usupress/ (June 3, 2003), reviews of Dear Elizabeth: Five Poems and Three Letters to Elizabeth Bishop and May out West: Poems of May Swenson.

OBITUARIES:PERIODICALS

Furtherreading