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Page Count: 480
Printing Date: November 01, 2003
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This complete collection of Moore’s poetry, lovingly edited by prize-winning poet Grace Schulman, for the very first time gathers together all of Moore’s poems, including more than a hundred that were previously uncollected and unpublished. This long-awaited volume will reveal to Moore’s admirers the scope of her poetic voice and will introduce new generations of readers to her extraordinary achievement.
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This book is a must for students of Moore as it is the only one that contains all poems from her long career. Grace Shulman is a loving and conscientious editor, but the careful reader suffers much frustration because of the arrangement of the notes. Moore annotated herself extensively and also requires editorial notes because she wrote so many versions of her poems. Shulman rightly includes both sets of notes on every poem, but this edition makes it difficult to find them in the back of the book. They are arranged chronologically, so one has to know the date of each poem in order to look up the note. If there is a future edition, I hope simple page headings can be added, such as "Notes to pages 100-115."
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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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