Tuesday, November 18, 2008

News at Eleven: Though [Edna St. Vincent] Millay married a man,

Eugen Boissevain, she was intimate with women and openly acknowledged her bisexuality in her work and personal life. Still, Millay struggled with her role and identity within both heterosexual and lesbian relationships, a challenge she often tried to work out in her poetry.

The following sonnet is from her collection Fatal Interview, which was published in 1931:

Night is my sister, and how deep in love,

from AfterEllen: Lesbian Poetry Retrospective Part II

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