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As you might remember (because it’s only been a week or two, which is at the outer edge of my memory, gentle reader, but I expect more from you), I bought a stack of old Edna St. Vincent Millay hardbacks at the Friends of the Library book sale two weeks ago<\/a>, and I have already (re)read Renascence<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\nThis is a later edition of her second book (first edition is 1920) and includes four sonnets at the end and poems not found in the first edition. You know what? If I had to pick a volume of her poetry to call my favorite, it would be this one (although ask me again when I get further into the stack and you might get another answer). After all, I know two of the poems by heart (“First Fig” and the sonnet which begins “Love, though for this you riddle me with darts…”) Not only did I memorize the latter, but I used it to open up my set at poetry open mics when I played a new venue; I’d approach the mic like a normal shy poet who hadn’t read much before with a sheaf of papers, and I’d leap from the stage or in front of the mic, reciting this poem angry and throwing the papers and sometimes my hat as I did so. I also recall the other sonnets from the book (although I don’t think I ever performed them).<\/p>\n
The other poems are pretty good to great; they have rhythm and they have rhyme, but not so much the inner- or inter-line wordplay that I use these days (although I’ve mostly abandoned the end rhyme).<\/p>\n
Some And note that I will probably finish another of these Millay collections before I finish another Louis L’Amour book as they’re shorter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As you might remember (because it’s only been a week or two, which is at the outer edge of my memory, gentle reader, but I expect more from you), I bought a stack of old Edna St. Vincent Millay hardbacks at the Friends of the Library book sale two weeks ago, and I have already […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33135,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33134\/revisions\/33135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}thirty-some<\/strike> couple of<\/em> years after I’ve read the book for the first time, I still enjoy re-reading it. I’ll probably re-read it again as I’ll be tempted to buy any other copy of it I see in the wild, and if I end up in a good place financially, I might look for a proper first edition\/first printing for my real library in those days. Otherwise, I’ll have to look forward to grabbing whatever copies I find in the wild. Now that I’ve gotten ahold of the other Millay collector in Springfield’s copies, I guess it will have to be when I travel.<\/p>\n