{"id":33778,"date":"2025-05-07T13:12:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T18:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=33778"},"modified":"2025-05-07T09:19:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T14:19:49","slug":"book-report-the-buck-in-the-snow-and-other-poems-by-edna-st-vincent-millay-1928","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/07\/book-report-the-buck-in-the-snow-and-other-poems-by-edna-st-vincent-millay-1928\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>The Buck in the Snow and Other Poems<\/i> by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1928)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/thebuckinthesnowandotherpoems.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\">I am enjoying running through the stack of Edna St. Vincent Millay books I bought <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/15\/good-book-hunting-saturday-september-14-2024-the-friends-of-the-springfield-greene-county-library\/\" target=\"_new\">last autumn<\/a>&#8211;I read <em>Fatal Interview<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/26\/book-report-fatal-interview-by-edna-st-vincent-millay-1931\/\" target=\"_new\">last month<\/a>, and when I went to the book sale <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/05\/good-book-hunting-saturday-may-3-2025-friends-of-the-springfield-greene-county-library-book-sale\/\" target=\"_new\">last week<\/a>, I hoped to buy additional copies of Millay&#8217;s work so I could put them in my to-read stacks and read them again.  But none were forthcoming, and I still have a few unread from last autumn.  Or I could dig out my existing copies to re-read, but that&#8217;s not how I roll.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, this collection is not a collection of sonnets, but most of them have good rhythm and end rhymes anyway.  The fourth part of the book does include some sonnets, though.  And it&#8217;s not a series of connected works, unlike <em>Fatal Interview<\/em>, but you do get the usual Millay themes of love and longing and loss.<\/p>\n<p>No penciled into the end papers, but it does have a book plate naming a previous owner (Reggie Johnson) and a label from the Personal Book Shop with two locations in Boston, Massachussetts.  The book shop no longer seems open, and the style of the label indicates that it&#8217;s decades old, so.  Someone, probably more than one person, enjoyed this book.  Perhaps someday someone else will enjoy it when it passes from my hands.<\/p>\n<p>Not much of a book report, but I can only gush about Millay as she is my favorite poet bar none.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am enjoying running through the stack of Edna St. Vincent Millay books I bought last autumn&#8211;I read Fatal Interview last month, and when I went to the book sale last week, I hoped to buy additional copies of Millay&#8217;s work so I could put them in my to-read stacks and read them again. But [&hellip;]<\/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-33778","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\/33778","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=33778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33779,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33778\/revisions\/33779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}