Night Watches: Inventions on the Life of Maria Mitchell
Carole Oles
"In Night Watches Carole
Oles performs an act of empathy so subtle and thorough as to be an act of identification:
she becomes Maria Mitchell, the pioneering American astronomer...Oles has quite literally
taken heart from Mitchell, and now the reader can do the same from this remarkable
book."
—Frank Bidart
about the author
Carole Simmons Oles was born in New York City and is a graduate of Queens College and The University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of five other books of poetry: The Loneliness Factor, Quarry, The Deed, Stunts, and Sympathetic Systems. Among her awards are a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, a Pushcart Prize, and two Fellowships at the MacDowell Colony.
