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Typed and autograph drafts of "Southbound on the Freeway" by May Swenson. Drafts contain autograph annotations.

Proof of Iconographs by May Swenson, circa 1970.

Typescript draft of the preface for Iconographs by May Swenson, circa 1970. Autograph annotations are on several of the pages.

Introduction for Mona Van Duyn, River Styx PM Series. Swenson wrote an introduction for Mona Van Duyn for an event held at the Saint Louis Art Museum, River Styx PM Series. It featured an evening with Mona Van Duyn and Roland Jordan.

Book cover for "Poets of Today." The book combines three poets works, Swenson, Duncan, and Noss. Book was published by Charles Scribner's Sons and includes an introduction of John Wheelock.

Writer-In-Residence at Purdue University clipping. Clipping has a photo of Swenson and mentions that she will be the writer-in-residence at Purdue for the 1966-67 school year. The article tells where Swenson grew up, her education and her…

Alternate dust jacket cover by Esther G. Rolick for Another Animal by May Swenson.

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.