Body My House

The first collection of critical essays on May Swenson and her literary universe, Body My House initiates an academic conversation about an unquestionably major American poet of the middle and late twentienth century. Between the 1950s and the 1980s, May Swenson produced eleven volumes of poetry, received many major awards, was elected chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, and was acclaimed by writers in virtually every school of American poetry.