Body My House : May Swenson's Work and Life / / edited by Paul Crumbley and Patricia M. Gantt.

The first collection of critical essays on May Swenson and her literary universe, Body My House initiates an academic conversation about an unquestionably major poet of the middle and late twentieth century. Includes many previously unpublished Swenson poems. Essays here address the breadth of Swens...

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Place / Publishing House:Logan, Utah : : Utah State University Press,, 2006.
©2006.
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (254 pages) :; illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Patricia M. Gantt
  • May Swenson chronology / Paul Crumbley and Patricia M. Gantt
  • The love poems and letters of May Swenson / R. R. Knudson
  • A figure in the tapestry : the poet's feeling runs ahead of her imagination / Paul Swenson
  • May Swenson : Whitman's daughter / Alicia Ostriker
  • May Swenson and Elizabeth Bishop / Kirstin Hotelling Zona
  • De-Cartesianizing the universe : May Swenson's design of wor(l)ds / Gudrun M. Grabher
  • That never told CAN be : May Swenson's manuscript witnesses / Martha Nell Smith
  • Material girl : May Swenson's logopoetic materialism / Cynthia Hogue
  • May Swenson and other animals : her poetics of natural selection / Paul Crumbley
  • How everything happens : notes on May Swenson's theory of writing / Michael Spooner
  • The queer poetics of May Swenson / Suzanne Juhasz
  • "Question" and more questions : two shells for May Swenson / Mark Doty
  • Bibliography of the works of May Swenson / compiled by Alice Geffen ; introduced by Carole Berglie.