Cellected Poems by Swenson, May -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Using this eBook Contents Another Animal (1954)

One

Feel Like a Bird Horse and Swan Feeding Lion Sun Stony Beach Sketch for a Landscape Cafe Tableau The Drunkard's Brow Spring in the Square Boy in Canoe The Garden at St. John's Horses in Central Park Three Jet Planes

Two

Evolution Beast Organelle Love Is Mornings Innocent He That None Can Capture Each Day of Summer August Night Another Animal To Confirm a Thing A History of Love

Three

Secure The Key to Everything The Tiger's Ghost An Unknown Island Mortal Surge Satanic Form A Loaf of Time Why We Die Question I Will Lie Down The Greater Whiteness A Wish

Four

Any Object Organs Big-Hipped Nature The Playhouse Shadow-Maker By Morning Sunset Cumuli A Day Is Laid By Rusty Autumn A Dream Green Red Brown and White Wingfolk An Opening

A Cage of Spines (1958)

Part 1 / The form is stone / The dress is rain

Almanac The Centaur The Red Bird Tapestry A Lake Scene The Promontory Moment Fountain Piece I The Wave the Flame the Cloud and the Leopard Speak to the Mind The Engagement In the Egyptian Room The School of Desire The Charm Box Waiting for It The Word "Beautiful" The Poplar's Shadow Cause & Effect The Cloud-Mobile Order of Diet Zambesi and Ranee The Legend of To Rise Death, Great Smoothener Today in Winter's Town The Properties

Part 2 / Targets in the brain

At Breakfast Hypnotist Was Worm An Extremity Am I Becoming? Seven Natural Songs To Her Images Frontispiece R. F. at Bread Loaf His Hand Against a Tree Deciding Two-Part Pear Able Parade of Painters The Process

Part 3 / A health of yellow

Looking Uptown Working on Wall Street To the Statue Ornamental Sketch with Verbs At East River Water Picture Fountain Piece II To the Shore Early Morning: Cape Cod The Tide at Long Point The Even Sea Sunday in the Country Forest A Haunted House News From the Cabin The Harp Executions The Day Moon Spring Uncovered Her Management

To Mix With Time (1963)

1 / ...then I saw it flow...

The Universe God Out of My Head The Wish to Escape into Inner Space Downward Let Us Prepare Landing on the Moon The Shape of Death Each Like a Leaf The Primitive Night Practice The Surface How to Be Old

2 / ...touching his toe...

Death Invited Instead of the Camargue Fountains of Aix The Alyscamps at Arles Above the Arno A Boy Looking at Big David Notes Made in the Piazza San Marco The Pantheon, Rome Italian Sampler While Sitting in the Tuileries and Facing the Slanting Sun A Hurricane at Sea

3 /...cubes and cones...

Snow in New York From the Office Window At the Museum of Modern Art A Fixture Riding the "A" Pigeon Woman Cat & the Weather De Chirico: Superimposed Interiors Southbound on the Freeway When You Lie Down, the Sea Stands Up The Contraption Trinity Churchyard, Spring The Totem Distance and a Certain Light

4 / ...colors take bodies...

The Snow Geese at Jamaica Bay Living Tenderly The Woods at Night Another Spring Uncovered One Morning in New Hampshire A Couple Japanese Breakfast Seeing the Frog Fireflies The Crossing The Exchange

Half Sun Half Sleep (1967)

After the Dentist After the Flight of Ranger VII All That Time April Light At First, At Last At Truro August 19, Pad 19 A Basin of Eggs A Bird's Life The Blindman Cardinal Ideograms A City Garden in April

The Magnolia The Old Ailanthus Daffodils The Little Fountain The Vine

Colors Without Objects Dear Elizabeth Drawing the Cat 11th Floor, West 4th Street Fable for When There's No Way Out Flag of Summer Flying Home from Utah Four-Word Lines Gods | Children Hearing the Wind at Night His Suicide In a Museum Cabinet In the Hair of the Night The Kite The Lightning The Little Rapids More Rich Motherhood Naked in Borneo Ocean, Whale-Shaped October Textures Of Rounds On Handling Some Small Shells from the Windward Islands On Seeing Rocks Cropping Out of a Hill in Central Park Out of the Sea, Early The People Wall The Pregnant Dream Rain at Wildwood The Secret in the Cat Sightseeing in Provincetown Sleeping Overnight on the Shore Spectrum Analysis Still Turning Swimmers The Tall Figures of Giacometti Things in Common Models of the Universe To Make a Play The Truth Untitled Waking from a Nap on the Beach The Watch The Wave and the Dune Seated in a Plane A Yellow Circle

Iconographs (1970)

Section One

Bleeding Women Things I Can Do in My Situation Over the Field Earth Will Not Let Go The DNA Molecule I Look at My Hand I'll Be The Mobile in Back of the Smithsonian Welcome Aboard the Turbojet Electra The James Bond Movie It Rains Feel Me The Fingers Electronic Sound The Grain of Our Eye Science and Religion--A Merger The Power House Orbiter 5 Shows How Earth Looks from the Moon Black Tuesday The Lowering An Old Field Jacket Spring by Robert Lowell (Photograph by Trudi Fuller) Notice MAsterMANANiMAl t h e B E A M Redundant Journey

Section Two

Unconscious Came a Beauty Catbird in Redbud Geometrid Rough Triplets

My Face the Night Admire What's Secret Rosignole to the Critic

Window in the Tail On Park Avenue at 52nd Street "Merry Christmas. You're on the Right." A Trellis for R. Wednesday at the Waldorf In the Yard Year of the Double Spring Five Horses How Everything Happens A Pair Camoufleur Beginning to Squall A Subject of the Waves The Blue Bottle The Stick Fire Island Stone Gullets Seeing Jupiter Zero in the Cove The Sunbird Settles to Its Nest Rocky Point

New & Selected Things Taking Place (1978)

Things Taking Place / I

A Navajo Blanket Bison Crossing near Mt. Rushmore Speed The North Rim Camping in Madera Canyon Bronco Busting, Event #1 St. Augustine-by-the-Sea One of the Strangest Last Night at Long Pine From Sea Cliff, March Old No. 1 Shu Swamp, Spring On the Edge Painting the Gate Written while Riding the Long Island Rail Road Appointment in New York Staying at Ed's Place Fashion in the 70's Going to the Whitney and Walking on the Floor O'Keeffe Retrospective Poet to Tiger Overboard Looks Holding the Towel Analysis of Baseball Watching the Jets Lose to Buffalo at Shea Choosing Craft July 4th On Addy Road Angels at "Unsubdued" The Willets Dr. Henderson The Beauty of the Head Above Bear Lake

Things Taking Place / ii

Night Visits with the Family I Nature That the Soul May Wax Plump Birthday Running on the Shore Scroppo's Dog Red Moonset September Things October On Its Way November Night This Morning View to the North The Thickening Mat Cold Colors Captain Holm Digging in the Garden of Age I Uncover a Live Root Today Survey of the Whole The Solar Corona First Walk on the Moon "So Long" to the Moon from the Men of Apollo The Pure Suit of Happiness Teleology Teeth Deaths The Wonderful Pen Ending Dream after Nanook

In Other Words (1987)

One

In Florida Waterbird Three White Vases Strawberrying Blood Test Birthday Bush Under the Baby Blanket Double Exposure Dummy, 51, to Go to Museum / Ventriloquist Dead at 75 A Thank-You Letter Teddy's Bears Alternate Side Suspended Goodbye, Goldeneye Summerfall From a Daybook

Two

Rainbow Hummingbird Lamplight Morning at Point Dume A Day Like Rousseau's Dream Saguaros Above Tucson Eclipse Morning The Cross Spider Shuttles

One / April 12, 1981 Two / November 12, 1981 Four (I missed the Third) / June 17, 1982 Too Big for Words / January 26, 1986

Comet Watch on Indian Key Ahnighito If I Had Children

Three

Come In Go Out In the Bodies of Words Her Early Work Angels, Eagles The Elect Shift of Scene at Grandstand Little Lion Face Pale Sun A New Pair Some Quadrangles

Four / comics

Innards The Digital Wonder Watch The Gay Life Fit Summer's Bounty A Nosty Fright Giraffe

Five

Banyan

Selected Uncollected and Posthumously Published Poems

Creation The Vain Dust First Star January This Year Goodnight Oblong Afternoons Down to Earth Earth Your Dancing Place Subconscious Sea Who Are You I Saw Running? White Mood To D. H. Lawrence Like Thee, Falcon The Maiden in the Grass Haymaking At the Ballet In Spoonfuls Jupiter Street To F. Wild Water Nightly Vision Trinity Place Asleep This Is What My Love Is Thinking The Sea War Summer Sunnymead Dreams and Ashes The Indivisible Incompatibles In Love Made Visible Two Shadows Touch Stone or Flame We Arise from the Pit of Night Symmetrical Companion Close-up of a Couple on a Couch Our Forward Shadows Say You Love To a Dark Girl Equilibrist Love Sleeping Standing Torso He What I Did on a Rainy Day Laocoön Dream Recorded in Diary Dated 1953 Incantation Night Before the Journey The Time Came Alternate Hosts Under the Best of Circumstances Oh, to Be a Tigress! Once Upon From a Letter to Elizabeth Bishop The Kiss Something Goes By Facing Her Management II Logs in the Grate East River, February As Long Ago as Far Away Thursday Thoughts of a Poet My Farm Annual Feeling Sorry Lying and Looking Listening to Strauss and Stroking an Autumn-Colored Cat Coda to J. Not the Dress Walking with Louis The Winepress The Many Christs The Truth Is Forced Cabala Somebody Who's Somebody My Poems I Look at an Old Photo of Myself with Love The Seed of My Father The Pouch-Flower That One On Lighting the Fire Daffodildo Yes, the Mystery Weather You Start Out Across The Lone Pedestrian LBJ on TV Horse Tell Me Stripping and Putting On Picasso: "Dream." Oil. 1932 Overview Skopus You Are The Waves Are Making Waves Part and Whole This Is That Celebration Evening Wind The Animals of the Ark Staring at the Sea on the Day of the Death of Another Found in Diary Dated May 29, 1973 In Progress Walking in the Village after Many Years Once There Were Glaciers Like a Lady Manyone Flying Because I Don't Know Assuming the Lotus Who Had the First Word? Moisture, Warmth and Light In Iowa: A Primitive Painting The Fortune Cookie The Most Important The Rest of My Life

Sleeping Alone A Spring Morning Unable to Write It What Matters The Rest of My Life I'm One

Cat and I Mickey's Pillow The Fluffy Stuff Mind Third Floor Walk-Up, 1984 Last Day A Tree in Spring My Name Was Called The Hole Seen Kiwi Good Things Come from Thee

On the Cliff By the Canal

Beginning Ended Look Closer The Snowy Memory of the Future? Prophecy of the Past? A Rescue Guilty Night Visits with the Family II Dear John Woman in a Garden A Clear Night on Mt. Hopkins

Selected Writings about Poetry

A Poem Happens to Me Poet's Choice The Poet as Antispecialist A Clue or Two A Note about Iconographs

Selected Iconographs Poems in Original Formats

Earth Will Not Let Go The DNA Molecule The James Bond Movie Feel Me The Lowering Catbird in Redbud Wednesday at the Waldorf The Year of the Double Spring The Boat Stave (A Subject of the Waves: 1) Seeing Jupiter The Sunbird Settles to Its Nest Rocky Point

Chronology Note on the Texts Notes Index of Titles and First Lines

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z

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