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. Marianne
Moore scholar Heather Cass White has prepared an edition of poems
that, for the first time, presents the full range of Moore's work
in its published order, while honouring the complex textual lives
of the poems. With an inviting introduction and meticulous notes,
the New Collected Poems of Marianne Moore is the first definitive
text of this most celebrated writer, whose poems form part, as T.
S. Eliot declared, of 'the small body of durable poetry written in
our time'.
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