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Dust jacket mock-up for Half Sun Half Sleep by May Swenson. The dust jacket is designed by Martha Sanders.

Ann Stanford, May Swenson: The Art of Perceiving, The Southern Review, January 1969. There is an essay by Ann Stanford "May Swenson: The Art of Perceiving". There are also poems by Robert Lowell, and Marco Antonio Montes de Oca.

Notes concerning biographical information of six Swedish poets translated by May Swenson for The Poetry Center's Translation Project under a Bollingen Foundation Grant, 1962. Swenson's translations were collected inHalf Sun Half Sleep, 1967.

Typescript table of contents draft for Half Sun Half Sleep by May Swenson

Life Style of a Poet, Voice, February 8, 1971. Article features 3 poems by Swenson and an interview.

Prospectus for "A Cage of Spines' by May Swenson.

List of nominations for National Book Awards in 1959. Swenson's book, "A Cage of Spines" was nominated for poetry along with with 6 other poets.

Clipping from the New Yorker written by Louise Bogan. Clipping reviews several published poetry books including Swenson's "A Cage of Spines."

Comments by Babette Deutsch, Mark Van Doren, John Hall Wheelock, and James Laughlin concerning A Cage of Spines by May Swenson.

Typed review of "A Cage of Spines" written by Sara Henderson Hay. Review was originally published in The Pittsburgh Press