Thomas Hardy once said that there were two great things about the United States: The skyscrapers and Edna St. Vincent Millay
The life of feisty red-haired poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay has been recounted before, but never so eloquently, or completely, as now. Setting the literary world aflame, much like the poet herself, is the arrival of Nancy Milford”s “Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay.”
Receiving critical acclaim as well as kudos from the average reader, Milford”s long-awaited biography gives us new insight into the woman whose private life was kept locked up, literally and figuratively, by her sister.
Readers now have the opportunity to glimpse more of Millay”s life than that which was revealed by her poems and her most famous lyric, “My candle burns at both ends / It will not last the night / But, ah, my foes, and, oh, my friends / It gives a lovely light.”
Biographer Nancy Milford first ignited a spark among literati with her 1970 biography of F.Scott Fitzgerald”s wife, Zelda.
Milford will be reading and signing copies of “Savage Beauty” at Borders tonight at 7 p.m.