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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Read Them in Historical Context
May doesn't need defending, but here goes. You have to read the poems in historical context to understand how brave she was to write them. She had to overcome not only fear of the public, and of the poetry industry, but of-- in those days-- the psychiatric associations, and all the internalized voices of her distant youth. This was wrong. This was bad. The self censorship...
Published on January 17, 2010 by Lyric Poet
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3 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
weaker than i expected
I really expected a lot out of this collection, but I found it to be rather weak as a whole. In fact, many of the poems were a stretch as to if I'd even call them love poems. "Because I Don't Know" stands out as both a great poem and a great love poem. But one of the other of the best poems "Strawberrying" is a stretch, I think, to call it a love poem,...
Published on January 28, 2004 by adead_poet@hotmail.com
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Read Them in Historical Context,
By Lyric Poet "Lyric Poet" (San Francisco) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Complete Love Poems of May Swenson (Paperback)
May doesn't need defending, but here goes. You have to read the poems in historical context to understand how brave she was to write them. She had to overcome not only fear of the public, and of the poetry industry, but of-- in those days-- the psychiatric associations, and all the internalized voices of her distant youth. This was wrong. This was bad. The self censorship was the most stringent censorship of all back then. She may not be Bishop, as a pure lyricist, but she was far braver.
3 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
weaker than i expected,
By adead_poet@hotmail.com "adead_poet@hotmail.com" (Beaumont, tx USA) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE)
This review is from: The Complete Love Poems of May Swenson (Paperback)
I really expected a lot out of this collection, but I found it to be rather weak as a whole. In fact, many of the poems were a stretch as to if I'd even call them love poems. "Because I Don't Know" stands out as both a great poem and a great love poem. But one of the other of the best poems "Strawberrying" is a stretch, I think, to call it a love poem, though there is some sensual imagery in it. I just thought that this collection would be better than what it is.
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The Complete Love Poems of May Swenson by May Swenson (Paperback - August 15, 2003)
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