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On our website, Swenson’s biographer discusses this remarkable writer’s iconoclastic life and career: “Having accepted one low-paying job after another, May barely subsisted,” Brucia notes. “But she never wavered in her determination to succeed, to forge a career as a poet and to find her identity.”
“She Put into Words Her Dreams”: A Revelatory New Biography of May Swenson, Far-Seeing Poet & LGBTQ Icon - Library of America
Born in 1913 to Swedish immigrant parents living in Logan, Utah, May Swenson was raised in an observant Mormon household, the oldest daughter of ten, before moving to Depression-era New York City to e...
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November 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
On our website, Swenson’s biographer discusses this remarkable writer’s iconoclastic life and career: “Having accepted one low-paying job after another, May barely subsisted,” Brucia notes. “But she never wavered in her determination to succeed, to forge a career as a poet and to find her identity.”
Hemingway went on: “How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.” (2/2)
October 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Hemingway went on: “How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.” (2/2)
Thank you for this correction and sharing the source!
October 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Thank you for this correction and sharing the source!