Joyce Nower (1932-2010) received a bachelor’s degree from Middlebury College, an MA from Harvard University and a PhD from the Union Institute in the sociology of art. She is the a...view moreJoyce Nower (1932-2010) received a bachelor’s degree from Middlebury College, an MA from Harvard University and a PhD from the Union Institute in the sociology of art. She is the author of three other volumes of poetry and of numerous poems and articles published in a variety of journals. She had retired from teaching literature and writing at San Diego State University and had made her home with a husband and children in La Mesa, California.view less