A magnificent anthology of the finest works of Edna St. Vincent Millay, perhaps the premier American lyricist of the twentieth century. --This text refers to an alternate paperback edition.

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), winner in 1923 of the second annual Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, was a daring, versatile writer whose work includes plays, essays, short stories, songs, and the libretto to an opera that premiered at New York's Metropolitan Opera House to rave reviews.

Millay infused new life into traditional poetic forms, bringing new hope to a generation of youth disillusioned by the political and social upheaval of the First World War. She ventured fearlessly beyond familiar poetic subjects to tackle political injustice, social discrimination, and women's sexuality in her poems and prose. In the 1920s and '30s, Millay was considered a spokesperson for personal freedom in America, particularly for women, and we turn to her lines to illuminate the social history of the period and the Bohemian lifestyle she and her friends enjoyed.

Yet Millay's poetry is still decisively modern in its message, and it continues to resonate with readers facing personal and moral issues that defy the test of time: romantic love, loss, betrayal, compassion for one another, social equality, patriotism, and the stewardship of the natural world.

Collected Poems features Millay's incisive and impassioned lyric poetry and sonnets, many of which are considered among the finest in the language, as well as the poet's last volume, Mine the Harvest, compiled and published in 1956 by her sister Norma Millay.

The first publication of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s private, intimate diaries, providing “a candid self-portrait of the ‘bad girl of American letters’� (Kirkus Reviews)   “Provides an occasion to revisit not just [Millay’s] improbable life but also her sometimes revelatory work.�—Abigail Deutsch, Wall Street Journal   “Rapture and Melancholy paints a picture of artistic triumph, romantic tumult, and a daily life that descended into addiction.�—Heather Clark, New York Times Book Review   The English author Thomas Hardy proclaimed that America had two great attractions: the skyscraper, and the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay. In these diaries the great American poet illuminates not only her literary genius, but her life as a devoted daughter, sister, wife, and public heroine; and finally as a solitary, tragic figure.   This is the first publication of the diaries she kept from adolescence until middle age, between 1907 and 1949, focused on her most productive years. Who was the girl who wrote “Renascence,� that marvel of early twentieth-century poetry? What trauma or spiritual journey inspired the poem? And after such celebrity why did she vanish into near seclusion after 1940? These questions hover over the life and work, and trouble biographers and readers alike. Intimate, eloquent, these confessions and keen observations provide the key to understanding Millay’s journey from small-town obscurity to world fame, and the tragedy of her demise.

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.

The St Vincent's Hospital Handbook of Clinical Psychogeriatrics, edited by A/Prof David Burke and Ms Ayse Burke, is a thorough and practical guide to the multidisciplinary, integrated hospital and community care of older people with mental health problems and illnesses. The St Vincent's Hospital Psychogeriatric Mental Health Service has over the past 10 years developed an efficient and effective model of service delivery that is integrated, cooperative, multidisciplinary, and team-based. This approach facilitates seamless patient management in partnership with the patient's general practitioner, family, and other care providers. This handbook is a valuable tool for all healthcare professionals and students wanting to learn about the assessment and management of older people with mental health problems and illnesses. All health-related clinicians that are either training or already working with older people, in general practice or residential aged care, and in other branches of medicine, psychology, nursing, social work, or occupational therapy will appreciate the ordered and thorough approach to hospital and community psychogeriatric care presented in the handbook. The array of multidisciplinary backgrounds of the authors and the integrated model of care that centers on team management, collaboration and a holistic approach, make this a unique reference tool. The St Vincent's Hospital Handbook of Clinical Psychogeriatrics presents practical, evidence-based, best-practice advice and guidance (incorporating DSM-V) for psychogeriatric care across a wide range of relevant topics. The Handbook chapters are: 1. Multidisciplinary Team Management; 2. Clinical Emergencies; 3. Delirium; 4. Psychotic Disorders; 5. Mood Disorders; 6. Anxiety Disorders; 7. Cognitive Impairment and Dementia; 8. Neuroimaging; 9. Neuropsychological Assessment; 10. Capacity Assessment and Guardianship; 11. Psychopharmacology; 12. Psychotherapy; 13. Behaviour Management in Dementia; 14. Independent Living and Placement; 15. Healthy Ageing; 16. Family and Carer Stress; 17. Grief and Bereavement; 18. Squalor and Hoarding; and 19. Homelessness.

This beautifully produced first annotated edition of Edna St. Vincent Millay's oeuvre re-presents the work of the Jazz Age's most famous poet More than sixty years after her death, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay continues to captivate new generations of readers. The twentieth-century American author was catapulted to fame after the publication of Renascence, her first major work and a poem written while she was still a teenager. Millay's frank attitude toward sexuality-along with immortal lines such as "My candle burns at both ends"-solidified her reputation as the quintessential liberated woman of the Jazz Age. In this authoritative volume, Timothy F. Jackson has compiled and annotated a new selection that represents the full range of her published work alongside previously unpublished manuscript excerpts, poems, prose, and correspondence. The poems, appearing as they were printed in their first editions, are complemented by Jackson's extensive, illuminating notes that draw on archival sources and help situate her work in its historical and literary context. Two introductory essays-one by Jackson and the other by Millay's literary executor, Holly Peppe-also help critically frame the poet's work. This deluxe edition will be cherished by readers who continue to study and enjoy the work of this iconic figure.

Before Louise Scherbyn founded the Women's International Motorcycle Association, she was simply a working girl who loved motorcycling--at a time when women weren't allowed to wear pants, roads weren't hard-topped, and handlebars didn't always remain attached while riding. After being forced out of every motorcycle auxiliary she joined, Louise realized and embraced her new lifelong mission. This book tells the fascinating story of Scherbyn's journey and her single, unifying vision for a women-only motorcycle association. Chapters cover 225,000 miles and two decades' worth of community-building, hostilities, physical and professional attacks, recovery, sisterhood and much more. Scherbyn paved the way for women motorcyclists across the world, riding into a storm of threats, uncertainties and newfound friends with a single, unifying vision for women who ride.

In this whimsically illustrated board book, a poem expresses the joys of being out in the natural world as the gladdest thing under the sun.