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050	0	0	_aPS3525.I495 _bZ636 2001
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100	1		_aEpstein, Daniel Mark
245	1	0	_aWhat lips my lips have kissed _b: the loves and love poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay _c/ Daniel Mark Epstein
250			_a1st ed
260			_aNew York _b: Henry Holt _c, 2001.
300			_axvii, 300 p. _b: ill. _c; 25 cm.
500			_a"A John Macrae book."
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [285]-286) and index.
520			_aA noted biographer and poet illuminates the unique woman who wrote the greatest American love poetry of the twentieth century This is the story of a rare sort of American genius, who grew up in grinding poverty in Camden, Maine. Nothing could save the sensitive child but her talent for words, music and drama, and an inexorable desire to be loved. When she was twenty, her poetry would make her famous; at thirty she would be loved by readers the world over. Edna St. Vincent Millay was widely considered to be the most seductive woman of her age. Few men could resist her, and many women also fell under her spell. From the publication of her first poems until the scandal over Fatal Interview twenty years later, gossip about the poet's liberated lifestyle prompted speculation about who might be the real subject of her verses. Using letters, diaries and journals of the poet and her lovers that have only recently become available, Daniel Mark Epstein tells the astonishing story of the life, dedicated to art and love, that inspired the sublime lyrics of Edna St. Vincent Millay.
600	1	0	_aMillay, Edna St. Vincent _d, 1892-1950
650		4	_aPoets, American _y-20th century _v--Biography
650		0	_aWomen and literature _z--United States _x--History _y--20th century
650		0	_aLove poetry, American _x--History and criticism
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