Great Regulars: Bruce Smith's "After Millay" was published

in the TLS of March 17–23, 1989, and was later published in his collection The Other Lover (1999) under the title "After St Vincent Millay". It's a nicely executed slice of bitterness, in which the speaker's pretensions and Romantic hyperbole are bathetically stripped away by the final snarling couplet.

from The Times Literary Supplement: Poem of the Week: After Millay by Bruce Smith

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