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Better than Laughter.
Title:
Better than Laughter.
Author:
Boie, Mildred Louise.
ISBN:
9780816661626
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (77 pages)
Contents:
Table of Contents -- Better than Laughter -- THE THICKETS -- Walk in Shadow -- When Grown -- The Eviction -- This Country -- Winter-Bound -- Before the Last Bright Rocket -- The Deserted -- The Bird Again -- Therefore Quiet -- This Midnight -- Out of Such Summer -- No Poetry -- From What Childhood -- To My Mother -- THE CHANNEL -- Five O'Clock Hour -- Will the Class Please -- You the President -- Two Cambridges -- Girls in Sunlight -- Mist in Air -- Deep South -- Kleptomaniac -- Housebound -- November Sea -- Snowfall -- Winter Piece -- Joyful All -- THROUGH WILDERNESS -- Verge -- Profit a Woman -- In Corpore Sano -- River -- If Heart Has Died -- Playing in Snow -- Have Done -- Savior -- Winter Can Go -- Beginning Again -- Vesper -- Night Watchman -- Old Maid Teacher -- To Draw Me Yesward -- This Christmas Too -- Brief Hearts Be Bold -- Italy or Anywhere -- After the Sunless Winter -- In the Line of Duty -- When Fighting Men Return -- We Swim in Secret Seas -- To My Analyst.
Abstract:
Better than Laughter was first published in 1946. This first collection of the poems of Mildred Louise Boie reflects the free and perceptive spirit of a young woman who followed a fascinating variety of paths. Upon release from the American Red Cross, she served in Italy, France, and Germany, assisting in civilian relief, and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal by the United States Army for meritorious service. She taught at Smith College and at the University of Minnesota and was an associate editor of the Atlantic Monthly. A number of these poems have been previously published in the Atlantic Monthly, American Mercury, Harper's, Poet Lore, New York Times, Christian Register, Radcliffe Quarterly, and Vineyard Gazette.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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