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“I love humanity but I hate people.” — poet Edna St. Vincent Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay was born on this day in 1892 in Rockland, Maine. “Boys don’t like me anyway because I won’t let them kiss me. It’s just like this: let boys kiss you and they’ll like you but you … Continue reading

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“The people must grant a hearing to the best poets they have, else they will never have better.” — Harriet Monroe

“I started in early with Shakespeare, Byron, Shelley, with Dickens and Thackeray; and always the book-lined library gave me a friendly assurance of companionship with lively and interesting people, gave me friends of the spirit to ease my loneliness.” – … Continue reading

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“I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.” — poet Elinor Wylie

She was born on this day. I am not familiar with the full scope of Elinor Wylie’s work, but what I do know really strikes my fancy. I wonder if A.S. Byatt used Wylie’s poetry as some of the inspiration … Continue reading

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Recommended: Biographies

For starters: My recommended Fiction books My recommended Non-Fiction books BIOGRAPHIES: American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson, by Joseph Ellis I’ve written a lot about Joseph Ellis’ work here. While I love David McCullough’s work so much, Ellis is … Continue reading

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Bookshelf Tour #7

Moving on to biographies. Please ignore my wretched ceiling. I had nothing to do with it. I also lost the top shelf of my bookshelves when I moved here in February. Still room for a row of books though. I … Continue reading

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Year in Review: Shooting My Mouth Off in 2016

I look at this and I wonder why I always feel like I haven’t done jack-squat. Or, at the very least, I could do more. Well, I always can do more. Regardless, here are links to some of the things … Continue reading

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The Books: Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay, by Nancy Milford

Daily Book Excerpt: Biography Next biography on the biography shelf is Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay, by Nancy Milford “– oh, this was life! It was more than life, — it was art. I might pretend … Continue reading

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The Books: Edna St. Vincent Millay: Collected Sonnets

Daily Book Excerpt: Poetry The next book on my poetry shelf is Collected Sonnets of Edna St. Vincent Millay. “The poem seems to us to be phenomenal.” — Edward J. Wheeler, editor of “Current Literature”, on Edna’s poem ‘The Land … Continue reading

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The Books: “The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry” – Elinor Wylie

Daily Book Excerpt: Poetry The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Volume 1: Modern Poetry, edited by Jahan Ramazani, Richard Ellmann, and Robert O’Clair I love her stuff. I am not familiar with the full scope of her work, … Continue reading

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“the exquisite footsteps”

I am following in the exquisite footsteps of Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay, unhappily in my own horrible sneakers. — Dorothy Parker

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