Blood Too Bright

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>What lips my lips have kissed and where and why</em></strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>I have forgotten*</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>One hundred years ago Bohemian author and editor of the radical </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Masses</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> magazine Floyd Dell began a passionate affair with a newcomer to Greenwich Village - the yet to be discovered girl poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. In the years that followed both Dell and Millay became symbols of early twentieth century feminism rebellion and literary freedom.</span></p><p><br></p><p>A century later while poring over her grandfather Floyd's papers at Chicago's Newberry Library Jerri Dell discovered <strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>hundreds of handwritten letters and an unpublished memoir about his love affair with Millay. </strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Finding him as outlandish entertaining and insightful as he was when she knew him fifty years before she chose to bring him and his poet lover back to life within the pages of this book.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>My candle burns at both ends</em></strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>It will not last the night*</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Admirers of Edna Millay as well as Bohemian Village enthusiasts and readers interested in writers who famously influenced social norms are sure to enjoy this eye-witness account of a fascinating woman and exceptional poet.</span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>*Excerpts from Sonnet XLIII and First Fig by Edna St. Vincent Millay</em></p>