May Swenson
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American poet
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Anna Thilda May "May" Swenson was an American poet and playwright. Harold Bloom considered her one of the most important and original poets of the 20th century. The first child of Margaret and Dan Arthur Swenson, she grew up as the eldest of 10 children in a Mormon household where Swedish was spoken regularly and English was a second language. Although her conservative family struggled to accept the fact that she was a lesbian, they remained close throughout her life. Much of her later poetry works were devoted to children . She also translated the work of contemporary Swedish poets, including the selected poems of Nobel laureate Tomas Tranströmer.
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