Poetry Books by May Swenson

May Swenson Books, May Swenson poetry book The Physician's Covenant Authors: William F. May
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published Date: 2000
Categories: Medical
May considers the overarching images that shape the convictions and daily practice of the physician. Taking a step back from the procedures and quandaries that are the focal points of many books on ethics, he explores the moral power of images in understanding the healer and defining his or her tasks. May updates his reflections on five images of the healer: parent, fighter, technician, teacher and covenanter.

May Swenson Books, May Swenson poetry book In other words Authors: May Swenson
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
Published Date: 1987-10-12
Categories: Poetry
Considers Florida, birds, boats, the past, birthdays, childhood, photographs, friendship, the desert, the space shuttle, death, time, and the stars

May Swenson Books, May Swenson poetry book Made with Words Authors: May Swenson, Gardner McFall
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published Date: 1998
Categories: Literary Collections
Recovers poet May Swenson's fiction, criticism, and drama--and her correspondence with Elizabeth Bishop

May Swenson Books, May Swenson poetry book American Sports Poems Authors: Rozanne Ruth Knudson, May Swenson
Publisher: Orchard Books (NY)
Published Date: 1988
Categories: American poetry
A collection of poems on sports, ranging from solo running, hunting, and fighting, to football and baseball from the spectator's point of view.

May Swenson Books, May Swenson poetry book More poems to solve Authors: May Swenson
Publisher: Atheneum
Published Date: 1971-06
Categories: Literary Criticism
A collection of unusual poems, challenging the reader to decipher their meaning using shape and word clues.

May Swenson Books, May Swenson poetry book The Complete Poems to Solve Authors: May Swenson
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Published Date: 1993-01
Categories: American poetry.
A collection of poems celebrates the magic and the mystery of the written word and features riddle poems and poems about animals, water, space, and more.

May Swenson Books, May Swenson poetry book May Out West Authors: May Swenson
Publisher:
Published Date: 1996-01-01
Categories: Poetry
This new collection of May Swenson's poems takes the West as its focus and field of vision. As the West was a place of inspiration to her, and of origin, the book gathers her work about the region into a memorable and inspiring collection. Some of Swenson's best-known poems are included, along with some that have never been collected before. Swenson scholars will also note that two poems are published here for the first time and that four other poems here reflect final revisions made by the poet after previous publication.

May Swenson Books, May Swenson poetry book Nature Authors: May Swenson
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published Date: 2000
Categories: Poetry
NATURE, a major compendium of May Swenson's poems, including ten that appeared first in this collection, draws on nearly fifty years of work. "Surely no one, scientist or poet," wrote former U.S. poet laureate Howard Nemerov, "has seen things . . . so clearly as she, and surely no one has made seeing and saying so nearly one."

May Swenson Books, May Swenson poetry book Poems to Solve Authors: May Swenson
Publisher: New York, Scribner 1966
Published Date: 1966
Categories: Children's poetry
Each of the 35 selections in this collection is a poem to solve. Pointing out the fact that more is hidden in poetry than in prose, Swenson offers first a group of riddle poems, in which the subject is not named in either the title or text, followed by other verses all of which contain various hidden elements of meaning.

May Swenson Books, May Swenson poetry book The Complete Love Poems of May Swenson Authors: May Swenson
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published Date: 2003
Categories: Poetry
Brings together ninety-seven poems by the respected twentieth-century writer as culled from her published collections of poetry as well as twenty-three works from her unpublished manuscripts. Reprint.



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