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May Swenson

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Dear Elizabeth

Five Poems & Three Letters to Elizabeth Bishop

  • by May Swenson

May Swenson

May Swenson was born in Logan, Utah in 1913. She published eleven volumes of poetry during her lifetime, earning her dozens of awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship and membership in the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. During the last years of her life, she served as a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

University Press of Colorado - May Swenson

The Centaur

  • by May Swenson, illustrated by Sherry Meidell

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