Josephine Miles

Josephine Miles (June 11, 1911 – May 12, 1985) was an American poet and literary critic. Quotes They deny good luck, love, power, romance, and inspiration From La Jac Brite ointment and incense of all kinds, And condemn in writing skin brightening and whitening and whitening of minds. There is upon the federal trade commission a burden of glory So to defend the fact, so to impel The plucking of hope from the hand, honor from the complexion, Sprite from the spell. "Government Injunction Restraining Harlem Cosmetic Co." (1941) St. 2–3; Collected Poems, University of Illinois Press, 1983 Death did not come to my mother Like an old friend. She was a mother, and she must Conceive him. Up and down the bed she fought crying Help me, but death Was a slow child Heavy. "Conception" (1974) st. 1–2; Collected Poems, University of Illinois Press, 1983 "In the roots of grammar, the stems of logic and the flowers of rhetoric take their being." "Style and Proportion The Language of Prose and Poetry"(1967) Little Brown and Company (INC.) Quotes about Josephine Miles Josephine Miles, who traveled with her wheelchair/around the country to read poems,/said, Don't make your poem a neat package with a/bow tied at the end. She also said,/It's hard to help. Naomi Shihab Nye Voices in the Air (2018) External links Josephine Miles - The Academy of American Poets http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/682 2009-02-25 Category:Women academics from the United States Category:20th-century poets from the United States Category:Women authors from the United States Category:20th-century American businesswomen Category:Publishers from the United States Category:1911 births Category:1985 deaths Category:People from Chicago Category:Poets from California Category:Beat Generation writers Category:Critics from the United States Category:Literary critics Category:Women born in the 1910s