Key To Everything May Swenson A Writers

Name: Key To Everything May Swenson A Writers
Brand: Princeton University Press

Princeton University Press

The Key to EverythingMay Swenson, A Writer's Life\nAuthor(s): Margaret A. Brucia\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Princeton University Press, United States\nImprint: Princeton University Press\nISBN-13: 9780691247236, 978-0691247236\nSynopsis\nAn intimate portrait of the twentieth-century American poet\n\nMay Swenson (1913??1989) was one of the most important and original poets of the twentieth century. The Key to Everything is a biography of this experimental American modernist that draws directly from her unpublished diaries and her letters to friends, family, and colleagues, most notably Elizabeth Bishop. In 1952, Swenson wrote in her diary, ??I want to confirm my life in a narrative??my Lesbianism, the hereditary background of my parents, grandparents, origins in the ??old country.??? Taking up Swenson??s uncompleted autobiographical plan, Margaret Brucia tells Swenson??s story as much as possible through her own words.\n\nWhile chronicling the whole of Swenson??s life, this book fo.