Observations by Moore Marianne Moore
Brand: St. Martins Press
Product Description
Marianne Moores Observations stands with T. S. Eliots The Waste Land Ezra Pounds early Cantos and Wallace Stevenss Harmonium as a landmark of modern poetry. But to the chagrin of many admirers Moore eliminated a third of its contents from her subsequent poetry collections while radically revising some of the poems she retained. This groundbreaking book has been unavailable to the general reader since its original publication in the 1920s. Presented with a new introduction by Linda Leavell the author of the awardwinning biography Holding On Upside Down The Life and Work of Marianne Moore this reissue of Observations at last allows readers to experience the untamed force of Moores most dazzling innovations. Her fellow modernists were thrilled by her originality her clear flawless languageto them she was a rafter holding up . . . our uncompleted building. Equally forceful for subsequent generations Observations was an eyeopener to the young Elizabeth Bishop its poems miracles of language and construction. John Ashbery has called An Octopus the finest poem of our greatest modern poet. Moores heroic openmindedness and prescient views on multiculturalism biodiversity and individual liberty make her work uniquely suited to our times. Impeccably precise yet playfully elusive emotionally complex but stripped of all sentiment the poems in Observations show us one of Americas greatest poets at the height of her powers. show more
Condition : New
Author : Moore Marianne Moore
Weight : 348
Publisher : St. Martins Press
Language : English
EAN : 9780374226862
ISBN10 : 0374226865
Format : Paperback
Date of Publication : 20210401
Place of Publication : New York United States
Pagination : 144 Pages
Dimensions : 154 X 228 X 12