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Title	:	Collected Poems
Author	:	Edna St. Vincent Millay
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 768 pages
Published	:	July 10th 1981 by Harper Perennial (first published 1956)
Categories	:	Poetry. Classics. Fiction. Womens

Collected Poems

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Paperback | Pages: 768 pages

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When an interviewer once asked Ray Bradbury what he did to prepare to write every day, he answered, “I read poetry.”

He read poetry, to write prose.

It made me want to read more poetry than I already do, and it also inspired me to find new poets, too. I recently came home from the library with a stack (and I mean a stack) of new-to-me poetry, and I've been saturating myself with it ever since.

It's amazing what poetry does to your mind. It sharpens it, almost immediately. When I have a daily practice, I feel more connected to both my emotional life and my environment.

I read poetry out loud, and I typically pace the room as I do; it's a quirky habit that I've always had. Has something to do with reading rhythm, I believe.

I am having so much fun with this, but I've also found deficiencies in my practice. For example, I have realized that I favor male poets and have overlooked quite a few female poets, despite being one myself.

In researching more poets, I discovered that Edna St. Vincent Millay was born just two years before my favorite poet, EE Cummings, and just four years after one of my other favorites, T.S. Eliot. They would have been in high school together, so to speak. Seemed like a obvious choice, to pick a woman who was a peer of two of my favorite guys.

But, Millay doesn't write like her male peers at all. In fact, she often uses language that feels like it's from a much different time, like elegant rhyming couplets and rhyming alternating lines. But. . . you can't dismiss her as “traditional” either. Given when she was writing, her subjects are bold and progressive and she is not timid at all about dissecting the human heart. She writes with a dramatic flourish, and after reading the first 10 poems in this famous collection, I went ahead and ordered myself my own copy.

This is a HUGE collection. I'll be reading from this for the rest of my life. I'd love to include her famous Renascence here, but it's 11 pages long. So, I'll just leave you with a short poem that reminded me of a bad break-up I had in college that prompted a 6 month jag of cigarettes and Sinead O'Connor's "Nothing Compares 2 U." Universal suffering, baby. Poetry always captures it:

I know what my heart is like
Since your love died:
It is like a hollow ledge
Holding a little pool
Left there by the tide,
A little tepid pool,
Drying inward from the edge.

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Original Title:	Collected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay
ISBN:	0060908890 (ISBN13: 9780060908898)
Edition Language:	English

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I would submit that Edna St. Vincent Millay may be the most underrated poet in the English language.Was she a formalist, and therefore out of vogue? Too bad. Was she a naughty girl, and therefore sent to a place less than nice when she died? More power to her; I'm sure she felt right at home.The woman who, as an undergrad at Vassar, defied the president of the college to expel her and was told "What? "And have a banished Shelley on my doorstep?" -- and who then allegedly responded "On those

Featuring lilting rhymes and well-cultivated images, as well as predictable meter and controlled tone, Millays poems precisely address experiences ignored, denigrated, or silenced by the work of her male peers. In addition to having written stunning sonnet sequences about turbulent love from the perspective of a woman, Millay concerned herself with writing about patriarchal oppression, the experience of poverty, suicide, the aging female body, urban life, and more; the range of Millays talent

Collected Poems Edna St. Vincent MillayBefore the cock in the barnyard spoke, Before it well was day,Horror like a serpent from about the Hangmans OakUncoiled and slid away.Pity and Peace were on the limbThat bore such bitter fruit.Deep he lies, and the desperate blood of himBefriends the innocent root.Brother, I said to the air beneath the boughWhence he had swung,It will not be long for any of us now;We do not grow young.It will not be long for the knotter of ropes, not long For the sheriff or

Just phenomenal. Her sonnets are among the best Ive read - the rest of her poems show equal spirit. Completely recommended.

One does not expect to come across poetic treasures in English while randomly browsing for mindless stuff to read, at least not when browsing in a bookshop in Belgium, but I wasn't going to let this one slip by. I've wanted to read more of her work since I read An Ancient Gesture. So much of her poetry is haunting, and terribly moving; very glad I found this.

What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why,I have forgotten, and what arms have lainUnder my head till morning; but the rainIs full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sighUpon the glass and listen for reply;And in my heart there stirs a quiet painFor unremembered lads that not againWill turn to me at midnight with a cry.Thus in the winter stands a lonely tree,Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one,Yet know its boughs more silent than before:I cannot say what loves have come and gone;I

Her poetry has a clarity and grace that touches my heart. I read it over and over.