A poet of dazzling gifts.

Joyce Carol Oates

One of the surest of poets, clear-eyed and absolute in her delineations, inventive beyond any expectations, deeply American.

Anthony Hecht

May Swenson sees more minutely than anyone, and with a nearly holy exactitude.

Cynthia Ozick

Questions are the wellsprings of May Swenson's art . . . In her speculations and her close observations, she fulfills Marianne Moore's formula for the working artist: 'Curiosity, observation, and a great deal of joy in the thing.'

Grace Schulman