num_pages: 305
description: During her lifetime Marianne Moore was that rarest of combinations, a genuine leader in the art of poetry, as well as a bona fide celebrity. She was an instantly recognisable symbol of Brooklyn, New York, appearing on the cover of Life magazine, asked by the Ford Motor Company to christen their new family sedan, and by the New York Yankees to throw the opening pitch of their baseball season. However, because of Moore's restless, seldom-ceasing, decade-spanning revision of her own poems, creating a 'stable' text of her work has posed editors a challenge ever since.Moore tackled the problem herself: Complete Poems (1967) was her own selection, but she favoured the later work, including less than half of her output up to that point. 'Omissions are not accidents,' she wrote pointedly in that edition, but for some readers the absence of more than one hundred poems constituted a wilful neglect of her startlingly innovative, highly influential early work, and contributed to Moore's undervaluing as a 'modernist' poet.
language: English
title: The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore
titlecomplete: The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore
genres: American, Grad School, Poetry, Womens, Female Authors, Nonfiction, Literature, Classics, College, 20th Century
ratings_count: 3084
awards: awardedAt: -568051200000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Poetry, awardedAt: -568051200000
name: National Book Award
category: Poetry
publisher: Viking Adult