The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay

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An indispensablecollectionofthe groundbreaking poets most masterful and innovative work, celebrating a bold early voiceoffemale liberation, independence, and queer sexualityfeaturing a new introduction by poet Olivia Gatwood, authorofLifeofthe Party

EdnaSt.VincentMillaydefined a generation as oneofthe most critically acclaimed poetsofthe Modernist era. Her work pushed boundaries within the literary canon for its lyrical expressionoffemale embodiment and progressive feminist politics, and she was honored as only the third woman to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize forPoetry.

The SelectedPoetryofEdnaSt.VincentMillaydemonstratesMillays legacy and influence on contemporarypoetry. Sometimes satirical,often sharp, and always striking, the poems in this collection spanMillays remarkable career, fromthe successofRenascence and Other Poemsto the stingofA Few Figs from Thistles,andSecond April, as well as The Balladofthe Harp-Weaver and eight sonnets from the early twenties.Millays incandescentpoetrycontinues to inspire today as broadly and deeply as during her lifetime.

The Modern Library Torchbearers series features women who wrote on their own terms, with boldness, creativity, and a spiritofresistance.

AMERICAN INDIAN STORIES THE AWAKENING THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY THE HEADS OF CERBERUS LADY AUDLEYS SECRET LOVE, ANGER, MADNESS PASSING THE TRANSFORMATION OF PHILIP JETTAN VILLETTE THERE IS CONFUSION THE SELECTED POEMS OF EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

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Edna St. Vincent Millay seems to me one of the only poets writing in English in our time who have attained anything like the stature of great literary figures.Edmund Wilson

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Edna St. Vincent Millay was born in Maine in 1892 and died in New York in 1950. A popular poet and playwright, she was also known for her unconventional lifestyle and her many love affairs. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923, and in 1943 she was awarded the Frost Medal for her lifetime contribution to American poetry.

Nancy Milford is the author of Savage Beauty,an iconic portrait of the extraordinary private life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Her previous book, Zelda, was a number one New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. She lives in New York City.