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A review by skoppelkam
The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Edna St. Vincent Millay
3.0
At first I was like "nah, Edna, you use way too many exclamation points and you're way too reverent" but then I got sucked in by the biting, fiercely independent voice lurking beneath the first few poems of this collection. Then Edna reveals herself with poems like "Thursday":
"And if I loved you Wednesday,
Well, what is that to you?
I do not love you Thursday -
So much is true.
And why you come complaining
Is more than I can see.
I loved you Wednesday, - Yes - but what is that to me?"
Edna St. Vincent Millay: the original Millenial, 100 years too soon.
My favorite in the collection is "Witch-Wife"
"And if I loved you Wednesday,
Well, what is that to you?
I do not love you Thursday -
So much is true.
And why you come complaining
Is more than I can see.
I loved you Wednesday, - Yes - but what is that to me?"
Edna St. Vincent Millay: the original Millenial, 100 years too soon.
My favorite in the collection is "Witch-Wife"