Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.52
EAN num: 9780670031986
ISBN number: 0670031984
Label: Viking Penguin
Manufacturer: Viking Penguin
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 449
Printing Date: October 27, 2003
Publishing house: Viking Penguin
Release Date: October 23, 2003
Sale Popularity Level: 725627
Studio: Viking Penguin
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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.
This complete collection of Moore's poetry, lovingly edited by the prizewinning poet Grace Schulman, for the very first time contains all of Moore's poems, including 120 previously uncollected and unpublished ones. Organized chronologically to allow readers to follow Moore's development as a poet, the volume includes an introduction, all of Moore's original notes to the poems, along with Schulman's notes, attributions, and some variants. This long-needed volume will reveal to Moore's admirers the scope of her poetic voice and will introduce new generations of readers to her great achievement. The Poems of Marianne Moore is a must have both for Moore devotees and any reader seeking an introduction to the work of one of America's greatest poets.
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Every Marianne Moore fan needs this book, and even the casual reader will benefit from all the uncollected poems Grace Schulman includes in this volume, nearly twice as big as the standard Complete Poems Moore published in her lifetime.
Moore was a savage editor of her work, and insisted on collecting only what she considered the very best of her poems, often significantly revised over the years. 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 and the three variants Moore wrote over the subsequent 40 years tucked helpfully in the Notes at the back.
The upshot is that you get a much clearer sense of Moore's development and characteristic concerns. Every bit as formidable, she also becomes just a little more human when you see the full range of her writing. Some of the false starts and minor pieces can often be more revealing than the Greatest Hits (though sometimes what Moore considered minor can be scary.) Now that Schulman's book is available as a paperback, I wonder how many of these lesser-known poems will eventually find their way into the anthologies.
Schulman also won me over by including Moore's earliest poem, written for Christmas in 1895 when she was 8:
Dear St. Nicklus:
This Christmas morn
You do adorn
Bring Warner a horn
And me a doll
That is all.
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