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The Poems of Marianne Moore
More than thirty years after her death, Marianne Moore continues to be one of America's most beloved poets. However, her Collected Poems (1951) omits twenty years of later beauties. And her inaccurately titled Complete Poems (1967) is likewise incomplete, leaving out nearly half of her body of verse and giving readers only a partial view of her work.
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Hardcover, 480 pages
Published
October 27th 2003
by Viking Adult
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I can tell this is a poet I am going to return to, maybe out of sheer enjoyment rather than to learn from. This summer I am trying to experiment with how I read--I think sometimes I am too quick to judge. So I am trying to spend more time with texts and to push past initial impressions, simply because upon first impressions, I tend to dislike large swaths of poetry, and that can get frustrating and be limiting.
Which is all to say, at first read, I found Moore very difficult and with a predelicti...more
Which is all to say, at first read, I found Moore very difficult and with a predelicti...more
Marianne Moore's poetry is steeped in the natural; she sometimes reminds me of Walt Whitman. Nature is to her a church, a library, a completely foreign world to the more subdued, concrete and truthless one that most people live in.
Her poems appear as grand, lavish stage productions, rooted in mythology, with wild and humming casts of animals, mythic and classical figures, set in a world that is free from the facade of civilization. Moore seems to observe human nature best when she views it free...more
Her poems appear as grand, lavish stage productions, rooted in mythology, with wild and humming casts of animals, mythic and classical figures, set in a world that is free from the facade of civilization. Moore seems to observe human nature best when she views it free...more
Moore was a savage editor of her own work, and insisted on collecting only what she considered the very best of her poems, often significantly revised over the years. Grace Schulman pulls back the curtain to let you see the earlier versions, in the chronological order in which they were written, along with many very fine poems that didn't pass muster with Moore. You get four versions of the famous "Poetry," for instance ("I, too, dislike it"): the 1919 original included in the body of the text,...more
A beautiful edition. But if you want the notes, you're better off getting the Penguin Edition.
This is my second approach to Moore. Why didn’t I notice what a naturalist she is? This time, I let myself leaf and drift through a book of her work. I didn’t linger on poems that didn’t grab me. What rises? The frigate-bird poems. The joy of her end-notes. The weird vibe of someone toying with you, as a reader.... she’s a dominatrix, of a sort. School-marm-y, yes, but with a joy in withholding, too.
Five stars for the poetry, three stars for the edition, which has too much repetition & is organized problematically.
Aug 17, 2007
Louisa Hall
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Recommends it for:
anyone who likes poetry but is wary of mushy confessionalism
Some of the most elegant poetry I've ever read; she makes you feel like the world is gilded.
Feb 12, 2008
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Moore is not an easy poet to read but a little effort makes her worthwhile.
id hv read it more if it was the shape of the penguin paperback version
To borrow a phrase: "Yes, yes, yes, yes."
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