[Throwing his life away,]
Josephine Miles, “[Throwing his life away,]” from Kinds of Affection. Copyright © 1967 by Josephine Miles. Reprinted by permission of Wesleyan University Press.
Source: Kinds of Affection (Wesleyan University Press, 1967)
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Poet Josephine Miles 1911–1985
POET’S REGION U.S., Western
Subjects Social Commentaries, Life Choices
Biography
Lifelong California resident Josephine Miles distinguished herself as an educator, spending her entire academic career at the University of California, Berkeley, where she was the first woman to be tenured in the English department. She is remembered as the editor of anthologies and critical texts, as an author of books on poetic style and language, and as an award-winning poet who produced over a dozen books of poems. Her . . .
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SUBJECT Social Commentaries, Life Choices
POET’S REGION U.S., Western
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