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Nature : poems old and new / May Swenson.
LIBRA PS3537.W4786 N3 2000 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Swenson, May
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 240 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Mariner books edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
- Summary:
- A posthumous collection of 182 nature poems by one of the century's most respected poets includes many never-before-published works.
- Contents:
- Frontispieces : Come in go out
- Living tenderly
- Untitled
- A day is laid by
- On its way
- How to be old
- View to the North
- The exchange
- Selves : The truth is forced
- A lake scene
- The centaur
- Earth your dancing place
- The crossing
- The poplar's shadow
- I look at my hand
- If I had children
- A dream
- Laocoon dream recorded in diary dated 1943
- Cabala
- Sunday in the country
- Beast
- Mornings innocent
- Evolution
- Love sleeping
- Blue
- What I did on a rainy day
- Lying and looking
- Almanac
- green red brown and white
- A loaf of time
- Forest
- The thickening mat
- Deciding
- The beauty of the head
- Daffodildo
- Question
- Birthday
- Above the arno
- Manyone flying
- The lightning
- On the edge
- A subject of the waves
- At truro
- October
- Digging in the garden of age I uncover a live root
- This morning
- Scroppo's dog
- Horse
- Bleeding
- Hearing the wind at night
- The fluffy stuff
- Weather
- Yes, the mystery
- The little rapids
- Downward
- Subconcious sea
- Rusty Autumn
- I will lie down
- Secure
- Still turning
- Order of diet
- the alyscamps at Arles
- Trinity Churchyard, Spring 1961
- Nature
- Feel me
- Death, great smoothener
- Last day
- The engagement
- Days : A day like Rousseau's dream
- Spring uncovered
- April light
- A city garden in April
- Water picture
- A tree in spring
- In the yard
- Rain at Wildwood
- Catbird in Redbud
- Shu Swamp, spring
- One morning in New Hampshire
- Sketch for a landscape
- Flag of summer
- Haymaking
- Summer's bounty
- Her management
- Feathers : On Addy Road
- Camoufleur
- Angels at "unsubdued"
- The woods at night
- The snowy
- Fountain piece
- The snow geese at Jamaica Bay
- One of the strangest
- Pigeon woman
- A pair
- The willets
- Goodbye, Goldeneye
- Camping in Madera Canyon
- Above bear lake
- October textures
- Waterbird
- A new pair
- Another spring uncovered
- Feel like a bird
- Stripping and putting on
- Makings : The playhouse
- Dear Elizabeth
- In the bodies of words
- Spring / by Robert Lowell
- Picasso : "Dream." Oil. 1932
- Naked in Borneo
- My farm
- The red bird tapestry
- Dream after Nanook
- Goodnight
- Instincts : News from the cabin
- Alternate hosts
- A couple
- Fable for when there's no way out
- Zambesi and Ranee
- Bronco busting, event #1
- Motherhood
- Wednesday at the Waldorf
- Bison crossing near Mt. Rushmore
- Death invited
- Big-hipped nature
- Each like a leaf
- All that time
- Out of the sea, early
- Gods / Children
- The process
- Heavens : Once there were glaciers
- Sleeping overnight on the shore
- The day moon
- The cloud-mobile
- Cumuli
- Flying home from Utah
- Landing on the moon
- Orbiter 5 shows how Earth looks from the moon
- After the flight of ranger 7
- Of rounds
- Comet watch on Indian Key - night of April 10, 1986
- Seeing Jupiter
- The solar Corona
- As long ago as far away
- Survey of the whole
- Visions : Look closer
- A Navajo blanket
- By morning
- The North Rim
- Speed
- The garden at St. John's
- The surface
- On handling some small shells from the Windward Islands
- Any object
- Fountains of Aix
- Waters : Ocean, whale-shaped
- The sea
- From sea cliff, March
- Staring at the sea on the day of the death of another
- The promontory moment
- Early morning: Cape Cod
- Running on the shore
- Captain Holm
- St. Augustine-by-the-sea
- Stone gullets
- How everything happens [based on a study of the wave]
- At first, at last
- Swimmers
- Waking from a nap on the beach
- Beginning to squall
- A hurricane at sea
- Old no. 1
- Zero in the cove
- November night
- Overboard
- The wave and the dune
- The blue bottle
- The stick
- The even sea
- The tide at Long Point
- Afterpiece : Incantation.
- Notes:
- "A Mariner book."
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0618064087
- 9780618064083
- OCLC:
- 44487452
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