Nature: Poems Old and New - Hardcover

Swenson, May

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395694639 ISBN 13: 9780395694633

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1994

Synopsis

A major posthumous collection, the first in a decade, of 182 nature poems by one of the century's most respected poets includes many never-before-published works, all capturing the freshness and excitement that mark her writing.

About this title

About the Author

May Swenson (1913-1989) received many awards for her work, among them the Bollingen Prize and a MacArthur Fellowship. She published eleven volumes of poems during her lifetime.

Review

Above Bear Lake
Above The Arno
After The Flight Of Ranger 7
All That Time
Almanac
Alternate Hosts
The Alyscamps At Arles
Angels At Unsubdued
Another Spring Uncovered
Any Object
April Light
As Long Ago As Far Away
At First, At Last
At Truro
Beast
The Beauty Of The Head
Beginning To Squall
Big-hipped Nature
Birthday
Bison Crossing Near Mt. Rushmore
Bleeding
Blue
The Blue Bottle
Bronco Busting, Event #1
Cabala
Camoufleur
Camping In Madera Canyon
The Centaur
A City Garden In April
The Cloud-mobile
Come In Go Out
Comet Watch On Indian Key -- Night Of April 10, 1986
A Couple
The Crossing
Cumuli
Daffodildo
A Day Is Laid By
A Day Like Rousseau's Dream
The Day Moon
Dear Elizabeth
Death %great Smoothener
Death Invited
Digging In The Garden Of Age I Uncover A Live Root
Downward
A Dream
Dream After Nanook
Each Like A Leaf
Early Morning: Cape Cod
Earth Your Dancing Place
The Engagement
The Even Sea
Evolution
The Exchange
Fable For When There's No Way Out
Feel Like A Bird
Feel Me
Flag Of Summer
The Fluffy Stuff
Flying Home From Utah
Forest
Fountain Piece
Fountains Of Aix
From Sea Cliff, March
The Garden At St. John's
Gods Children
Goodbye, Goldeneye
Goodnight
Green Red Brown And White
Haymaking
Hearing The Wind At Night
Her Management
Horse
How Everything Happens (based On A Study Of The Wave)
How To Be Old
A Hurricane At Sea
I Look At My Hand
I See Captain Holm
I Will Lie Down
If I Had Children
In The Bodies Of Words
In The Yard
Incantation
A Lake Scene
Landing On The Moon
Laocoon Dream Recorded In Diary Dated 1943
Last Day
The Lightning
The Little Rapids
Living Tenderly
A Loaf Of Time
Look Closer
Love Sleeping
Lying And Looking
Manyone Flying
Mornings Innocent
Motherhood
My Farm
Naked In Borneo
Nature
A Navajo Blanket
A New Pair
News From The Cabin
The North Rim
November Night
Ocean, Whale-shaped
October
October Textures
Of Rounds
Old No. 1
On Addy Road
On Handling Some Small Shells From The Windward Islands
On Its Way
On The Edge
Once There Were Glaciers
One Morning In New Hampshire
One Of The Strangest
Orbiter 5 Shows How Earth Looks From The Moon
Order Of Diet
Out Of The Sea, Early
Overboard
A Pair
Picasso: Dream Oil 1932
Pigeon Woman
The Playhouse
The Poplar's Shadow
The Process
The Promontory Moment
Question
Rain At Wildwood
The Red Bird Tapestry
Running On The Shore
Rusty Autumn
Scroppo's Dog
The Sea
Secure
Seeing Jupiter
Shu Swamp, Spring
Sketch For A Landscape
Skopus
Sleeping Overnight On The Shore
Snow By Morning
The Snow Geese At Jamaica Bay
The Snowy
The Solar Corona
Speed. Winnipeg To Medicine Hat, Manitoba, Canada
Spring By Robert Lowell (photograph By Trudi Fuller)
Spring Uncovered
St. Augustine-by-the-sea
Staring At The Sea On The Day Of The Death Of Another
The Stick
Still Turning
Stone Gullets
Stripping And Putting On
Subconscious Sea
A Subject Of The Waves
Summer's Bounty
Sunday In The Country
The Surface
Survey Of The Whole
Swimmers
The Thickening Mat
This Morning
The Tide At Long Point
A Tree In Spring
Trinity Churchyard, Spring 1961
The Truth Is Forced
Untitled
View To The North
Waking From A Nap On The Beach
Water Picture
Waterbird
The Wave And The Dune
Weather
Wednesday At The Waldorf
What I Did On A Rainy Day
The Willets
The Woods At Night
Yes, The Mystery
Zambesi And Ranee
Zero In The Cove
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Edition details

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0395694639
• ISBN 13: 9780395694633
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240