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Hardcover:

9781598532104 | Library of America, April 4, 2013, cover price $40.00

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Product Description: Can it be there was only onesummer that I was ten?First published in 1956, May Swenson’s "The Centaur" remains one of her most popular and most anthologized poems. This is its first appearance as a picture book for children. In images bright and brisk and tangible, the poet re-creates the joy of riding a stick horse through a small-town summer...read more

Hardcover:

9780874216486 | 1 edition (Utah State Univ Pr, September 1, 2007), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Can it be there was only onesummer that I was ten?
9780027887266 | Macmillan Pub Co, October 1, 1995, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Each day of the summer that she is ten, a girl takes a glorious ride astride a willow stick that becomes a horse for her, even as she becomes one with her imaginary steed.

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twentieth-century writer as culled from her published collections of poetry as well as twenty-three works from her unpublished manuscripts.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.

Paperback:

9780618340842 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, August 15, 2003), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: 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twentieth-century writer as culled from her published collections of poetry as well as twenty-three works from her unpublished manuscripts.

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A selection of poems and letters sent from May Swenson to Elizabeth Bishop are accompanied by an essay.

Paperback:

9780874212969 | Utah State Univ Pr, June 1, 2000, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: A selection of poems and letters sent from May Swenson to Elizabeth Bishop are accompanied by an essay.

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Product Description: Poetry. Ann Stanford's poems have appeared in many magazines, including Poetry, Atlantic Monthly, and the New Yorker, and she saw eight collections of them acclaimed in her lifetime. DREAMING THE GARDEN completes an impressive body of work that earned its author a Shelley Memorial Award...read more
By Ann Stanford and May Swenson (introduced by)

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9780964924086 | Cahuenga Pr, May 1, 2000, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Poetry.

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A posthumous collection of 182 nature poems by one of the century's most respected poets includes many never-before-published works

Hardcover:

9780395694633 | Houghton Mifflin, May 1, 1994, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A posthumous collection of 182 nature poems by one of the century's most respected poets includes many never-before-published works

Paperback:

9780618064083 | Mariner Books, April 19, 2000, cover price $15.95
9780395694626 | Houghton Mifflin, May 1, 1994, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A posthumous collection of 182 nature poems by one of the century's most respected poets includes many never-before-published works

Product Description: Made With Words collects prose by May Swenson (1919-89), whom critic and poet John Hollander has called "one of our few unquestionably major poets." Born in Logan, Utah, she spent most of her adult life living and writing in New York City...read more

Hardcover:

9780472096589 | Univ of Michigan Pr, February 1, 1998, cover price $39.50

Paperback:

9780472066582 | Univ of Michigan Pr, July 1, 1999, cover price $22.01 | About this edition: Made With Words collects prose by May Swenson (1919-89), whom critic and poet John Hollander has called "one of our few unquestionably major poets.

A collection of poems on sports, ranging from solo running, hunting, and fighting, to football and baseball from the spectator's point of view

Hardcover:

9780531057537 | Reissue edition (Orchard Books, October 1, 1995), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A collection of poems on sports, ranging from solo running, hunting, and fighting, to football and baseball from the spectator's point of view

School and Library:

9780531083536 | Reissue edition (Orchard Books, April 1, 1996), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: A collection of poems on sports, ranging from solo running, hunting, and fighting, to football and baseball from the spectator's point of view

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Product Description: A postuhumous collection, first published in 1996, that takes the West as its focus and field. As the American West was a place of inspiration to May Swenson, and of origin, the book gathers her work about the region into a memorable and inspiring collection...read more

Hardcover:

9780874212006 | Utah State Univ Pr, February 1, 1996, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A postuhumous collection, first published in 1996, that takes the West as its focus and field.

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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.
By Christy Hale (illustrator) and May Swenson

School and Library:

9780027887259 | Simon & Schuster, April 1, 1993, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A collection of poems celebrates the magic and mystery of the written word and features riddle poems and poems about animals, water, space, and other subjects

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Considers Florida, birds, boats, the past, birthdays, childhood, photographs, friendship, the desert, the space shuttle, death, time, and the stars

Hardcover:

9780394561752 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 1, 1987, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Considers Florida, birds, boats, the past, birthdays, childhood, photographs, friendship, the desert, the space shuttle, death, time, and the stars

Paperback:

9780679733560 | Reprint edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, February 1, 1992), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Considers Florida, birds, boats, the past, birthdays, childhood, photographs, friendship, the desert, the space shuttle, death, time, and the stars

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Gathers together sixty-one of the author's love poems

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9780395592229 | Mariner Books, November 1, 1991, cover price $14.00 | also contains On the Clock: The Story of the NFL Draft | About this edition: Gathers together sixty-one of the author's love poems

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Scanning topics from a Navajo blanket to fashion in the seventies to an analysis of baseball to man's walk on the moon, Swenson views her poems as vital and living 'things' acting out experiences on the written page

Hardcover:

9780316825207 | Little Brown & Co, November 1, 1978, cover price $12.50 | About this edition: Scanning topics from a Navajo blanket to fashion in the seventies to an analysis of baseball to man's walk on the moon, Swenson views her poems as vital and living 'things' acting out experiences on the written page

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Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780694502783 | Abridged edition (Harperaudio, January 1, 1976), cover price $14.00

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School and Library:

9780684136172 | Atheneum, May 1, 1975, cover price $4.95

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Product Description: Book by Swenson, May

School and Library:

9780684123257 | Atheneum, June 1, 1971, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Book by Swenson, May

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