Swimming Closer To Shore

Swimming Closer to Shore

Product Description Poems of intelligence and vulnerability on the inner life and the uncertainties of being a complex woman in a complex world. Review Shaw's is an entirely new voice. --Roz Spafford, Chair, UCSC Writing ProgramThese poems amaze me. They have for a long time tangibly helped me live my life. --Sharman Murphy About the Author By birthright a New Englander, Tilly Washburn Shaw came west to Santa Cruz, California, in mid-life, to join in building a new campus of the University of California in the late 60's, often returned later to Massachusetts in the summer. She did her Bachelor's degree at Swarthmore, her doctorate at Yale in Comparative Literature; taught at Haverford College, Douglas College of Rutgers, and Yale University before joining the Literature faculty at U.C., Santa Cruz. After 37 years of teaching, she retired to the enjoyments of age, lives in Santa Cruz with her fruit trees, friends, writing groups and books, does lay counseling with seniors, travels, swims in any ocean she is able to.