A Session with Josephine Miles, Poet

A Session with Josephine Miles, Poet

Author: Josephine Miles

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Published: 1979

Total Pages: 6

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Josephine Miles, poet and English professor, talks about the tone we take towards images of California and reads poems about human fabrication and energy. The event took place on February 28, 1979 in the lounge of the Women's Faculty Club, University of California, Berkeley.


Collected Poems, 1930-83

Collected Poems, 1930-83

Author: Josephine Miles

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780252067679

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Winner of the 1984 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Originally published in 1983, Miles's Collected Poems received seven awards, including the Lenore Marshall/Nation Poetry Prize, and was one of three finalists for the 1983 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. A striking consistency -- of tone, of diction, of purpose -- characterizes Miles's life work. It has been a life well spent. --Publisher's Weekly. Miles is a poet of the first rank whose work might well be compared to that of Williams or Moore ... Collected Poems is a treasury of poetic wit and human understanding that belongs in all poetry collections. --Library Journal. Miles's work is one of the finest and most solid bodies of poetry to be found in this country. --A.R. Ammons.


Josephine Miles Papers

Josephine Miles Papers

Author: Josephine Miles

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Published:

Total Pages: 0

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Contains correspondence, manuscripts and drafts of published and unpublished poetry, drama, childhood stories, and critical writings. Also includes papers relating to her academic career and personal files.


Of Women, Poetry, and Power

Of Women, Poetry, and Power

Author: Zofia Burr

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9780252027697

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The haunting legacy of Emily Dickinson's life and work has shaped a romantic conception of poetry as private, personal, and expressive that has governed the reception of subsequent American women poets. Of Women, Poetry, and Power demonstrates how the canonization of Dickinson has consolidated limiting assumptions about women's poetry in twentieth-century America and models an alternative reading practice that allows for deeper engagement with the political work of modern poetry. Analyzing the reception of poems by Josephine Miles, Gwendolyn Brooks, Audre Lorde, and Maya Angelou, Zofia Burr shows the persistence of these critical outlooks and dispels the belief that we have long since moved beyond such limiting gendered expectations. Turning away from an obsessive concern with a poet's biography, Burr's readings of contemporary women's poetry accentuate its engagement and provocation of readers through its forms of address. Burr shows how displacing the limits of dominant reception is possible by approaching poetry as communicative utterance, not just as self-expression.