Okay, I am cheating saying I read this book. I specifically read the last chapter, "Epilogue, 1952: Edna St. Vincent Millay" (p 806-860) because it was cited in "What Lips My Lips Have Kissed" as the source of information on a threesome that Vincent, Edmund, and their friend John Bishop (who is mentioned repeatedly in the chapter and can be subtextually read as gay).

The chapter doesn't actually mention anything about a threesome, so I will have to look for a different source.

But I really did like Wilson's thoughts on Vincent--they had been friends and lovers in the 1920s--but whose friendship had lapsed when Vincent had married and moved to Steepletop. Note, that it's not *because* she was married, but because of her new reclusiveness that their friendship lapsed. He paints two different portaits of Millay--young and vibrant Vincent and nervous and middle-aged nervous and dowdy Edna.

Also, based on my readings on Vincent, I'm not a fan of her husband Eugen Boissevain. It's like everyone who talks about him is talking around something. That it's his presence that changed Vincent. I don't have any textual proof, just vibes.

I would read more chapters of "Shores of Light," to learn more about the time-period and the persons at the center of Greenwich Village culture of the twenties. But not anytime soon. I've got other reading I'm prioritizing right now.