Listener's Room MABLE HOLMES PARSONS 1940 Signed ~ Poetry ~ Oregon Author ~ Northwest

Title: Listener's Room

Author: Mable Holmes Parsons

Description: Signed by the author on the half-title page. Brown cloth stamped in black. Previous owner's label on ffep (that of the Northwest/Washington-state poet Elizabeth Yates), else interior clean. 72 pages. 7.75 x 5.25 inches.

Poetry by Mable Holmes Parsons.

Many Oregon authors studied under Mable Holmes Parsons (1872-1953), a Professor of English who taught creative writing at the University of Oregon since 1912 and who also taught at the Portland Extension Center. Some of her noted students included the Oregon poet laureate Ethel Romig Fuller, Alfred Powers, Frances Gill, and Laura Miller.

The previous owner, Elizabeth Crawford Yates (1885-1955), at the time of her death, was considered by many to be the de facto poet laureate of Washington state. A resident of Vancouver, her poems often appeared in The Oregonian. She was also the grandniece of Kelso's founder, Peter Crawford.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good+
Jacket Condition: None

Publisher: Binfords & Mort
Place: Portland
Year: 1940

Keywords: poetry, Oregon author, Elizabeth Yates,