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How many of you have even heard of Marianne Moore? I'm genuinely curious on this point because I hadn't until last week. Her relative obscurity (at least here in the UK) is a bit of a shame because she has an important voice in the world of poetry. Her poetry is unusual and it’s very hard to underst Leggi tutto

Marianne Moore with verses of ermine and a three-cornered hat you promenade down the avenues of poetry head held high twixt halos of street-lamps and attitudes of humankind— no animal escapes your sidewalk gaze your own gait like an egret’s and your macaw fingers clutching at stars and your luna moth mind fli Leggi tutto

They fought the enemy,we fight fat living and self-pity. I loved more than a few but many escaped me. Kenner’s distinctions between Moore and Wallace Stevens appear valid as far as parsing characteristics but I still find it suspicious to regard one as Modern and the other as Post Romantic. Moore doe Leggi tutto

Marianne Moore is a modern force of nature. I was first attracted to her writing by the precise strength of 'An Octopus', where cold observation and quotation somehow form a remarkable synthesis with a fierce love for the outdoors and for words. She tends to frustrate when writing about more (to my

Her devices of near-rhymes and syllabic (as opposed to metric) verse structures are well known but the result she gets from them is underrated - as the best blankverse/alexandrine writers have made use of subsitutions, Moore's verse becomes something like a strainer where a variety of rhythmic and p Leggi tutto

I could never, nor ever would I want to, read this book from beginning to end. I open it on occasion to relish the pleasures of manner as destiny, of precision as ecstasy. Moore is stalwart in the true expression of her idiosyncratic thought: "To write unemotionally of this book is to do it injustice Leggi tutto

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Marianne Moore si legge a 20 anni e si può rileggere anche a 120. Resta l'incanto. Scrive di pangolini catafratti che hanno le scaglie della regolarità di una pigna e questi quasi-carciofi sanno camminare sotto la luce della luna anzi, sul raggio stesso della luna. Scrive che fu la pazienza a protegg Leggi tutto