Scope and Contents Although Swenson's book, 'Iconographs' is recognized for multitude of shaped poems, this book depicts several other examples throughout her poetic career. These include poems from the following books, ' To Mix with Time' (1963) and 'Half Sun Half Sleep' (1967). In a section of 'Collected Poems' (2013) entitled 'Notes on the Text page 726, it is mentioned that the shaped poems of 'Iconographs' were oroginally published in a typewriter font preferred by Swenson.Alfred Corn Review from Poetry Magazine (December 2, 2013:Definition won't be easy, and it has to begin by taking her biography into account. The profile of the provincial who comes to New York in hopes of ?becoming a celebrated artist is standard enough, but in Swenson's case several non-routine factors should also be ?considered. Her parents were Swedish immigrants, Mormon converts come to the Utah homeland, who brought her up in their ?adopted faith. But at some point she realized she was a lesbian. This was one more reason...

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Three Chinese printed papers are tipped onto two pages; they represent papers for spiritual burning ceremonies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents According to Swenson, these Iconographic Poems were composed with the shape as an integral part of the poem's meaning. In this respect, they fulfill the definition of Concrete Poetry, viz. poems that are to be seen, as well as read and heard.Kirkus Review (1970): As the title suggests, Miss Swenson's fourth book of poetry reaffirms her belief in the possibilities of calligraphic verse (which makes graphic use of page space and type to produce a pictorial symbol of the poem's subject). Thus, we have an ode to ""An Old Field Jacket"" printed in the shape of a chevron patch; ""The Blue Bottle"" arranged in the design of a, yes, bottle; and the double helix of ""The DNA Molecule"" represented in stairstep coils. Beyond these diagrammatic experiments, Miss Swenson is also interested in writing original poetry, which except for a few well-worn conceits and cliches (""My eye my I,"" ""the bridge of Discover,"" ""animal beauty"" of the black man), she manages to do. Many will find the...

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This is an anthology of Swenson's poems. New poems comprise the first 78 pages. Other poems are reprinted from Swenson's books, Iconographs, Half Sun Half Sleep, To Mix with Time, A Cage of Spines, and Another Animal. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is an anthology of Swenson's poems. New poems comprise the first 78 pages. Other poems are reprinted from Swenson's books, Iconographs, Half Sun Half Sleep, To Mix with Time, A Cage of Spines, and Another Animal. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exibition was held to honor Andrew Hoyem's visit to the University of Pennsylvania for the Library's Board of Overseers meeting. May Swenson's Iconographs and Rosemarie Waldrop's Camp Printing, donated to the Library by the Sackner Archive, were exhibited. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This exhibition was curated by Kevin Ray, Head of Special Collections of the Olin Library. In his introductory essay, Ray writes, "The writer's notebook is the precursor, the ancestor of writing, even moreso of reading. Before the note, before the thing to be noted, it was there, and it remains, the locus becoming, by its presence and its persistence, capable of not simply holding or transmitting what is within it, but of producing and recreating it. The notebook as a visual space of chiefly, though not exclusively, texts, allows for several things to be happening within the same space and, more uncertainly, the same readerly time, yet they are of very different, even wildly divergent times...The notebook becomes then a place of juxtapositions, and with this ability to juxtapose, to hold together without necessary or obvious link, the notebook, as a form or genre, comes into its own, and comes into the intellectual life of published, of printed work." -- Source of annotation:...