Edna St Vincent Millay (1892-1950) was one of the most popular
American writers of her generation, and the first woman to win the
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Thomas Hardy once remarked that America
had only two great wonders to show the world: skyscrapers, and the
poetry of Edna St Vincent Millay. Poems and Satires restores that
wonder to view, while also revealing Millay as a more innovative
and versatile talent than she is usually given credit for being. It
includes some of her wickedly funny satires (published under the
pseudonym Nancy Boyd, out of print since 1924), as well as her
acclaimed play Aria da Capo, and reveals her to be not only the
defining 'flapper' poet of the 1920s but a crucial voice for the
2020s. The 'fierce and trivial' persona she cultivated in her early
lyric poems and sonnets - with their dazzling wit and daring
attitudes towards love and sexuality - captured the whirl of
bohemian life in New York. In her genre-defying satires, she
questioned society's treatment of women and artists in surreal
stories and plays, non-fiction and spoof agony aunt letters, and
even a Handmaid's Tale-esque dystopia disguised as an almanac from
the future.
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