

The first major gathering of May Swenson's poems in a decade, this posthumous collection concentrates on her nature poems. Drawn from nearly fifty years of her work, Naturecontains 182 poems, many never before published. With Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore, May Swenson ranks...


NATURE, a major compendium of May Swenson's poems, including ten that appeared first in this collection, draws on nearly fifty years of work. "Surely no one, scientist or poet," wrote former U.S. poet laureate Howard Nemerov, "has seen things . . . so clearly as she, and surely...