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On Inhabiting an Orange
Josephine Miles, “On Inhabiting an Orange” from Collected Poems. Copyright � 1983 by Josephine Miles. Reprinted with the permission of the University of Illinois Press.
Source: Poetry (September 1934).
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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 Arts & Sciences, Nature, Philosophy, Landscapes & Pastorals
POET’S REGION U.S., Western
Poetic Terms Rhymed Stanza, Refrain
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