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What Lips My Lips Have Kissed: The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay. (Books).(Brief Article)

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From: The Antioch Review
Date: 20020322
Author:Maddux, Carolyn

What Lips My Lips Have Kissed: The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Daniel Mark Epstein. Henry Holt, 300 pp., $26.00. The excitement Epstein felt gaining access to the unpublished diaries, journals, and letters that landed unprocessed in the Library of Congress, read by no more than four people since the first decades of the 20th century, is an obvious component of this addition to biographies of the charismatic, chaotic poet. Epstein paints vivid pictures of his auburn-haired heroine: overworked eldest daughter of an impoverished, all-woman household; turbulent ...

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