Currently reading Savage Beauty - a biography of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford. I am excited because I think it will be pretty juicy. I love really good biographies, especially about people who wrote great poetry and had lots of love affairs.
You may have read this poem before, called "First Fig"
My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends –
It gives a lovely light!
On Modern American Poetry, the critic JoEllen Green Kaiser says of this poem:
"Her most famous poem, after all, does not mourn absent love but rejoices in love’s impermanence."
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