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PRINCIPAL WORKS

Poetry

Another Animal 1954

A Cage of Spines 1958

To Mix with Time: New and Selected Poems 1963

*Half Sun Half Sleep 1967

Iconographs 1970

New and Selected Things Taking Place 1978

In Other Words 1987

The Love Poems of May Swenson 1991

Nature: Poems Old and New 1994

*Includes new poems and Swenson's translations of six Swedish poets.

Other Major Works

Poems to Solve (poems for children) 1966

The Floor (play) 1967; published in journal First Stage More Poems to Solve (poems for children) 1971

Windows & Stones: Selected Poems by Tomas Transtromer [with Leif Sjoberg] (translations) 1972

American Sports Poems (poems for children) 1988

The Complete Poems to Solve (poems for children) 1993

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Criticism
   1. John Berryman (essay date 1956)
   2. Nat Hentoff (essay date 1958)
   3. Winfield Townley Scott (essay date 1959)
   4. Barbara Gibbs (essay date 1959)
   5. Anthony Hecht (essay date 1963)
   6. X. J. Kennedy (essay date 1964)
   7. Richard Howard (essay date 1966)
   8. May Swenson (essay date 1966)
   9. Peter Davison (essay date 1968)
   10. Ann Stanford (essay date 1969)
   11. Nancy Sullvian (essay date 1971)
   12. Alicia Ostriker (essay date 1978)
   13. Michael Heller (essay date 1988)
   14. Michael Collier (essay date 1991)
   15. Edward Hirsch (essay date 1992)
   16. Alfred Corn (essay date 1993)
   17. Sue Russell (essay date 1994)
   18. Grace Schulman (essay date 1994)
   19. Langdon Hammer (essay date 1995)
4. Further Reading
5. Copyright

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