Marion Ross portrayed a great poet in 'Lovely Light'
Sept 27, 2019 21:22:23 GMT
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Marion Ross
Poet, playwright and political activist Edna St. Vincent Millay received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923. Millay was portrayed on stage by theatre actress Marion Ross in the one-woman show 'Lovely Light' in 1988.
“No woman poet of her generation was as adored, or as widely read or quoted, as Edna St. Vincent Millay,” Holly Peppe writes in her introduction to the new Selected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Millay’s ascent to the status Peppe describes, well-documented by multiple biographers, could be a movie tagline from the Golden Age of Hollywood: “Young woman of modest means from rural Maine skyrockets to stardom.” Not long after garnering wide accolades for her poem “Renascence” when she was only twenty-one years old, Millay became a sought-after celebrity among Greenwich Village literati. With the publication of her books A Few Figs from Thistles and The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems in the early 1920’s, she achieved national renown and earned a Pulitzer Prize, still just the beginning of a career that would span ten poetry collections along with numerous lauded works in other genres.
But Millay’s life beyond the page, including her riveting reading style, the erotic mythos of her free-spirited persona, and the dramatic drug-and-alcohol-fueled decline of her later years, has often risked overshadowing her work. With the release of this new selected poems edition, Holly Peppe, Millay’s literary executor, and Timothy F. Jackson, the book’s editor, redirect our gazes from Edna St. Vincent Millay the public figure to Edna St. Vincent Millay the poet."
But Millay’s life beyond the page, including her riveting reading style, the erotic mythos of her free-spirited persona, and the dramatic drug-and-alcohol-fueled decline of her later years, has often risked overshadowing her work. With the release of this new selected poems edition, Holly Peppe, Millay’s literary executor, and Timothy F. Jackson, the book’s editor, redirect our gazes from Edna St. Vincent Millay the public figure to Edna St. Vincent Millay the poet."
- Caitlyn Doyle, Literary Matters
“Even in the 9th grade, the teacher would ask, ‘Who wants to memorize this monologue from Shakespeare?’ and I would raise my hand--'I’ll do it, I’ll do it'--even though I didn’t want to do it. It would hurt me to do it, but I would do it. Then of course you’d get rewards. So I’d sense that there’s a reward at the end of it.
{On her Canadian mother} - Immigrants always want you to become somebody, make the most of yourself, that kind of talk. She was very inspiring, so wonderful. So I was programmed to be somebody, make the most of yourself, do something swell. And I did, but it was hard work.”
{On her Canadian mother} - Immigrants always want you to become somebody, make the most of yourself, that kind of talk. She was very inspiring, so wonderful. So I was programmed to be somebody, make the most of yourself, do something swell. And I did, but it was hard work.”
- Marion Ross, graduate of San Diego State University, speaks to journalist Hilliard Harper of the Los Angeles Times in 1988
'Happy Days' - Brother Love
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Poetry & Wit : Quartet
'It's little I care what path I take,
And where it leads it's little I care,
But out of this house, lest my heart break,
I must go, and off somewhere!'
And where it leads it's little I care,
But out of this house, lest my heart break,
I must go, and off somewhere!'
- Edna St. Vincent Millay (born February 22, 1892, Rockland, Maine, U.S.)
“They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That’s true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket.”
- Anita Loos (born Corinne Anita Loos, April 26, 1889, Sisson, California, U.S.) on the Womens Lib Movement
'Should they whisper false of you,
Never trouble to deny;
Should the words they say be true,
Weep and storm and swear they lie.'
Never trouble to deny;
Should the words they say be true,
Weep and storm and swear they lie.'
- Dorothy Parker (born Dorothy Rothschild, August 22, 1893, Long Branch, New Jersey, U.S.)
'A dancing girl with swaying hips,
Sets mad the queen in the harlot’s eye.
Praying slave
Jazz-band after
Breaking heart
To the time of laughter …
Clinking chains and minstrelsy
Are wedged fast with melody.
A praying slave
With a jazz-band after …
Singin’ slow, sobbin’ low.
Sun-baked lips will kiss the earth.
Throats of bronze will burst with mirth.'
Sets mad the queen in the harlot’s eye.
Praying slave
Jazz-band after
Breaking heart
To the time of laughter …
Clinking chains and minstrelsy
Are wedged fast with melody.
A praying slave
With a jazz-band after …
Singin’ slow, sobbin’ low.
Sun-baked lips will kiss the earth.
Throats of bronze will burst with mirth.'
- Gwendolyn B. Bennett (born July 8, 1902, Giddings, Texas, U.S.)
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Marion Ross (born Marian Ross, October 25, 1928, Watertown, Minnesota, U.S.)
"There’s some part of us that no matter how villainous, even you’re playing Iago or something, you find a way to make the audience love you because that’s our self protection. We always want to be loved. We will find something, and there is always something lovable about everybody ..."
- Marion Ross, The A.V. Club
The Fonz & Mrs. C
