Not confessional or autobiographical, not openly political or
gender-conscious: all that Marianne Moore's poetry is not has
masked what it actually is. Cristanne Miller's aim is to lift this
mask and reveal the radically oppositional, aesthetic, and
political nature of the poet's work. A new Moore emerges from
Miller's persuasive book--one whose political engagement and
artistic experiments, though not cut to the fashion of her time,
point the way to an ambitious new poetic.
Miller locates Moore within the historical, literary, and family
environments that shaped her life and work, particularly her sense
and deployment of poetic authority. She shows how feminist notions
of gender prevalent during Moore's youth are reflected in her early
poetry, and tracks a shift in later poems when Moore becomes more
openly didactic, more personal, and more willing to experiment with
language typically regarded as feminine. Distinguishing the lack of
explicit focus on gender from a lack of gender-consciousness,
Miller identifies Moore as distinctly feminist in her own
conception of her work, and as significantly expanding the
possibilities for indirect political discourse in the lyric poem.
Miller's readings also reveal Moore's frequent and pointed
critiques of culturally determined power relationships, those
involving race and nationality as well as gender.
Making new use of unpublished correspondence and employing
close interpretive readings of important poems, Miller revises and
expands our understanding of Marianne Moore. And her work links
Moore--in her radically innovative reactions to dominant
constructions of authority--with a surprisingly wide range of late
twentieth-century womenpoets.
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