Reminders of an I Not Left Behind

by Mia Elkovsky Phoebus

The poems within Reminder of an I Not Left Behind are emotional, visceral, and blatantly challenging. Passion whirls and leaps off the page, and then sly humor and her sense of the absurd pop up like a jack-in-the-box or peek slyly from an oblique question or statement. Welcome to Mia Elkovsky Phoebus's world of provocative thought. Mia Phoebus attended Julliard, Turtle Bay, and Manhattan School of Music and received a BA from Cal State College, Los Angeles. She performed with the San Francisco Opera and the famous Second Avenue Yiddish Theatre. She won Best Orator in 1974 from San Diego University and continues to lecture, teach, and write poetry.

432 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2011

About the author

Mia Elkovsky Phoebus is a poet-philosopher, now 93 years old, and the last living person to have been a cohort and confidante of playwright Tennessee Williams.

During the summer of 1940, Phoebus shared a run-down house on a wharf a ragtag group of artists and dancers. One of these unknowns was Williams, who immortalized Phoebus as the character "Miriam" in his play "The Parade."