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Article: The Lenore Marshall Prize. (includes excerpts from Josephine Miles' Collected Poems, 1930-83)
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- October 20, 1984
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The Lenore Marshall Prize
Books entered for the 1983 Lenore Marshall Prize numbered over a hundred, and they impressed the judges as a particularly strong group, ranging from excellent first books to books by authors in midcareer to the collected poems of a lifetime. It is in the last category that we found our winner. Josephine Miles's Collected Poems, 1930-83 draws on the author's eleven published volumes and adds to them old and new poems that were previously uncollected.
Some 250 pages of poetry, this selection from five decades of productivity is unusually meritorious--"one of the finest and solidest bodies of poetry to be found in this country,' A. ...