#steepletop

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Steepletop, Edna St. Vincent Millay's home, in Austerlitz, New York, United States

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Similar to the Gargoyle/Steepletop pair, "Hark" is also a variation on an older procreate drawing of mine. "That awkward moment when you aren’t sure if you should run or bow", digital procreate drawing, 2021 "Hark", oil on canvas, 2024

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“Viaggia con me verso la primavera: l’amore, se è qualcosa, è forse questo.” tratto dalla poesia "Steepletop" NANCY BOYD art by Doug Kreuger ******************* “Travel with me to spring: love, if it is anything, is perhaps this.” from the poem "Steepletop" NANCY BOYD art by Doug Kreuger 

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Edna St. Vincent Millay

(Feb. 22nd 1892 - Oct. 19th 1950)

Brief Bio:

Edna St. Vincent Millay was born the eldest of three sisters in New York.  Her middle name came from St. Vincent's Hospital where she was born, and where her uncle evaded death.  She began publishing poetry as a teenager and went on to study at Vassar College.  Her themes covered many subjects, from war to female sexuality, which earned her quite a reputation as a controversial poet.  Openly bisexual, she rubbed elbows with many influential writers of the time, and kept numerous lovers, even during her marriage.  After a prosperous career as a poet and playwright, she died of a heart attack in her home and was found eight hours later at the foot of the stairs.

Notable Works:

Renascence (1912)  

Aria da capo (1919 play)  

Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare (1922)  

The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver (1923)

Notable Awards:

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1923)  

Robert Frost Medal (1943)

The Grave:

Edna is buried on the grounds of her historic home of Steepletop.  The house is a museum, high on a hill where cell phone reception completely disappears.  A dirt road called the Millay Poetry Trail starts not far from the museum parking lot.  Several signs along the trail give quotes from her more famous poems.  At the end of the trail is a clearing where Edna, her husband, and her sisters are buried.

Steepletop

440 East Hill Rd.

Austerlitz, NY 12017

Surrounding Area:

Steepletop is an isolated place, which was probably why Millay liked it.  The grounds are also home to the Millay Colony for the Arts, a popular artist retreat center where authors can focus on their work without distraction.  The lack of cell reception comes in handy for this.  One may follow NY-22 onto State Line Rd. and from there go to West Stockbridge, MA, which is full of restaurants and shopping destinations.

Further Reading:

Edna St. Vincent Millay Project Gutenberg

Edna St. Vincent Millay Society website  

Millay Colony for the Arts  

Steepletop TripAdvisor  

"Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.  Nobody that matters, that is."

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A poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Ashes of Life

Love has gone and left me and the days are all alike; Eat I must, and sleep I will, — and would that night were here! But ah! — to lie awake and hear the slow hours strike! Would that it were day again! — with twilight near! Love has gone and left me and I don't know what to do; This or that or what you will is all the same to me; But all the things that I begin I leave before I'm through, — There's little use in anything as far as I can see. Love has gone and left me, — and the neighbors knock and borrow, And life goes on forever like the gnawing of a mouse, — And to-morrow and to-morrow and to-morrow and to-morrow There's this little street and this little house.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

(1892-1950)

Image: Steepletop, also known as the Edna St. Vincent Millay House, was the farmhouse home of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay and her husband Eugene Jan Boissevain, in Austerlitz, New York, United States.

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But why anybody believes anything, I do not know. I thought I could trust you.

Edna St Vincent Millay, Steepletop

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Edna St. Vincent Millay en su casa de Steepletop, NY, 1940s.

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Steepletop Edna St. Vincent Millay

(excerpt)

III. Borage, forage for bees And for those who love blue, Why must you, Having only been transplanted  From where you were not wanted Either by the bee or by me From under the sage, engage in this self-destruction? I was tender about your slender tap-root. I thought you would send out shoot after shoot Of thick cucumber-smelling, hairy leaves. But why anybody believes Anything, I do not know. I thought I could trust you.

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The Society's mission is to illuminate the life and writings of Edna St. Vincent Millay, to preserve and interpret the character of Steepletop, her home and gardens, places where nature inspires the creative spirit.

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Edna St. Vincent Millay en su casa de Steepletop, NY, 1940s.

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Inside the library at Steepletop, home of the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, late 1950s.

Photo by Molly Malone Cook.

From the book Our World featuring photographs by Cook and text by Mary Oliver, Cook’s partner for many years

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Mary Oliver is one of our era’s most beloved and prolific poets — a sage of wisdom on the craft of poetry and a master of its magic; a woman as unafraid to be witty as she is to wise. For more than forty years, Oliver lived on Cape Cod with the love of her life, the remarkable photographer Molly Malone Cook — one of the first staff photographers for The Village Voice, Oliver writes of the affair Cook had in the late 1950s, shortly before they met:

   She had … an affair that struck deeply; I believe she loved totally and was loved totally. I know about it, and I am glad… This love, and the ensuing emptiness of its ending, changed her. Of such events we are always changed — not necessarily badly, but changed. Who doesn’t know this doesn’t know much.

The following year, Cook met Oliver and they remained together, inseparable, for more than four decades. That encounter — which calls to mind the fateful first meetings that occasioned such iconic literary couples as Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas or Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes — took place at Steepletop, the home of Edna St. Vincent Millay, where Oliver had landed the day after her high school graduation at the age of seventeen and stayed for several years.

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RAPTURE AND MELANCHOLY

Biographer Epstein offers a judicious edition of the diaries of Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), beginning in 1907, when the ebullient teenager felt sometimes overwhelmed with caring for her two younger sisters whenever her mother, a nurse, was called away. “It is very hard to be sixteen,” she confides to her diary, glad to have an outlet for what she calls her “spite.” At 19, fantasizing about a “beloved,” she pours her passion into “Renascence,” which she entered into a poetry contest in May 1912. Accepted for a volume of the winners, “Renascence” was singled out for praise by several reviewers and served to launch Millay’s career. The Poetry Society of America hosted a literary evening in her honor in 1913, when she was a student at Barnard, preparing to enter college. For the 20-year-old poet, New York City was a heady experience, and her diary reflects the excitement of meeting other poets (Sara Teasdale, for one), shopping, walking through Manhattan, and seeing her first opera, Madame Butterfly, at the Metropolitan Opera House. After graduating from Vassar, she traveled to Europe, including Albania, which had just opened to Western tourism. Her vivid entries from that trip, Epstein notes, appear here for the first time. In 1923, Millay married the wealthy Dutch businessman Eugen Boissevain, widower of suffragist Inez Milholland, and soon the couple bought Steepletop, a house in Austerlitz, New York, where Millay lived for the rest of her life. Entries reveal her as impetuous, hardworking, and passionate; friends could irritate as much as please. A lover’s rejection sent her into a depression from which she never recovered. By 1949, when she made her last entry, she had become “a solitary, tragic figure,” suffering from ill health, addiction to alcohol and opiates, and loneliness.

from Kirkus Reviews https://ift.tt/5SGDefl

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