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EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY SPEAKS TO THE COMMITTEE ON IMMORTALITY

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From: The Village Voice
Date: 20050824
Author:Fong, Phyllis

EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY SPEAKS TO THE COMMITTEE ON IMMORTALITY

Collective: Unconscious

279 Church Street

Through Saturday

Jennifer Gibbs (playwright and Millay) hits up a jury of audience members on the question of immortality-poetic, though at times we also suspect corporeal. This one-woman boudoir exorcism reaches for and misses the ferocity and elocution of the real E.St.V.M., who could toss off a line like "Or trade the memory of this night for food" in a closing couplet and still earn the sonnet's shudder. But some comedy slips through the morphine-and-mother-complex meat of it-like a ...

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