“Every line and verse in this little volume has been composed and written with my own hand notwithstanding the loss of my eyesight.”
About Myra Viola Wilds
c. 1880–c. 1935
Myra Viola Wilds, born about 1880 and believed to have died about 1935, occupies an unusual and moving place in the history of American poetry. Her surviving reputation rests principally on a single small book, Thoughts of Idle Hours, published in 1915, yet the modest scale of that achievement should not obscure its…