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May Swenson (1913–1989)

Author of Swenson: Collected Poems

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Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contributor, some editions — 902 copies
The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry (1990) — Contributor — 736 copies
A Pocket Book of Modern Verse (1954) — Contributor, some editions — 435 copies
Baseball: A Literary Anthology (2002) — Contributor — 329 copies
The Literary Cat (1977) — Contributor — 239 copies
The Best American Poetry 1994 (1994) — Contributor — 169 copies
American Religious Poems: An Anthology (2006) — Contributor — 160 copies
No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women (1973) — Contributor — 122 copies
The Penguin Book of Women's Humour (1996) — Contributor — 114 copies
Deep Down: The New Sensual Writing by Women (1988) — Contributor — 114 copies
Poems from the Women's Movement (2009) — Contributor — 107 copies
Poems Between Women (1997) — Contributor — 89 copies
My Lover Is a Woman (1996) — Contributor — 87 copies
The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food and Drink (2012) — Contributor — 62 copies
Science Fiction (1973) — Author — 41 copies
60 Years of American Poetry (1996) — Contributor — 28 copies
Harvest: Contemporary Mormon Poems (1989) — Contributor — 16 copies
Poetry in Crystal (1963) — Contributor — 14 copies
Queer Nature: A Poetry Anthology (2022) — Contributor — 13 copies
Women (1972) — Contributor — 12 copies
A believing people; literature of the Latter-Day Saints (1974) — Contributor — 9 copies
DISCOVERIES - Two Centuries of Poems by Mormon Women (2004) — Contributor — 6 copies
American Review #23 (1975) — Contributor — 4 copies

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Good short selection of poems. I like the imagery.
 
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kslade | Dec 8, 2022 |

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