This collection represents a new range of critical awareness and marks the burgeoning of what is a twenty-first-century Marianne Moore renaissance. The essays explore Moore's participation in modernist movements and communities, her impact on subsequent generations of artists, and the dynamics of her largely disregarded post-World War II career. At the same time, they track the intersection of the evolution of her poetics with cultural politics across her career. Drawing on fresh perspectives from previously unknown biographical material and new editions and archives of Moore's work, the essays offer particularly interesting insights on Moore's relationships and her late career role as a culture icon.
Elizabeth Gregory & Stacy Carson Hubbard.- "These Things": Moore's Habits of Adduction.- Moore's Numbers.- Yellow Roses and Bulbuls: Marianne Moore's Persian Effects.- Contrarieties Equally True: Marianne Moore and William Blake.- "The Teacher Was Speaking of Unrhymed Verse": Marianne Moore, E. H. Kellogg, and the Poetry of Modernist Hermeneutics.- Editorial Compression: Marianne Moore at The Dial Magazine.- Marianne Moore and Modern Labor.- Marianne Moore's "Light Is Speech": Decision Magazine and the Wartime Work of Intellectual Exchange.- "Mysteries Expound Mysteries": Marianne Moore's Influence on John Ashbery.- "The first grace of style": Marianne Moore and the Writing of Dancing.- "Passion for the Particular": Marianne Moore, Henry James, Beatrix Potter and the Refuge of Close Reading.- Is Andy Warhol Marianne Moore?: Celebrity, Celibacy and Subversion.- "ArchivingMarianne Moore".-"Finding Moore: No Search Engines, No Indexes, No Computers".- "Documenting Moore".- "Discovering Moore".- "Advertising Moore".-"Editing Moore".
Elizabeth Gregory is Professor of English and Director of the Women's, Gender & SexualityStudies Program at the University of Houston, USA.
Stacy Carson Hubbard is Associate Professor of English, University of Buffalo, USA.
"Twenty-First Century Marianne Moore gives readers a lively, challenging picture of the poet's work, and provides a valuable base for further exploration." (Rachel Trousdale, Journal of Modern Literature, Vol. 43 (4), 2020)
