New collected poems

Moore, Marianne 1887-1972 (author.). White, Heather Cass, (editor.).

The definitive collected edition of one of our most innovative and beloved poets, Marianne Moore

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American poetry > 20th century.
Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972.
Women poets, American > 20th century.

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Poetry.

ISBN: 9780374221041
ISBN: 0374221049
ISBN: 9780374537746
ISBN: 0374537747
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xxvi, 453 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition First American edition.
Publisher New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.
Copyright ℗♭2017

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Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note:	Observations (1924) -- Poems 1932-1936 -- The Pangolin and other verse (1936) -- From What are years (1941) -- Nevertheless (1944) -- Poems 1944-1951 -- Like a bulwark (1956) -- From O to be a dragon (1959) -- From The arctic fox (1964) -- From Tell me, tell me (1966) -- Poems 1963-1970.

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New Collected Poems

by Moore, Marianne; White, Heather Cass (Editor)

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Table of Contents

New Collected Poems

Section	Section Description	Page Number
	Acknowledgments	p. xi
	Conventions Followed	p. xiii
	Introduction	p. xv
	The Poems
	Observations (1924)
	To an Intra-Mural Rat	p. 5
	Reticence and Volubility	p. 6
	To a Chameleon	p. 7
	A Talisman	p. 8
	To a Prize Bird	p. 9
	Injudicious Gardening	p. 10
	Fear is Hope	p. 11
	To a Strategist	p. 12
	Is Your Town Nineveh?	p. 13
	A Fool, a Foul Thing, a Distressful Lunatic	p. 14
	To Military Progress	p. 15
	An Egyptian Pulled Glass Bottle in the Shape of a Fish	p. 16
	To a Steam Roller	p. 17
	Diligence is to Magic as Progress is to Flight	p. 18
	To a Snail	p. 19
	"The Bricks are Fallen Down, We Will Build with Hewn Stones. The Sycamores are Cut Down, We Will Change to Cedars."	p. 20
	George Moore	p. 21
	"Nothing will Cure the Sick Lion but to Eat an Ape"	p. 22
	To the Peacock of France	p. 23
	In this Age of Hard Trying, Nonchalance is Good and	p. 24
	To Statecraft Embalmed	p. 25
	The Monkey Puzzler	p. 26
	Poetry	p. 27
	The Past is the Present	p. 29
	Pedantic Literalist	p. 30
	"He Wrote The History Book"	p. 31
	Critics and Connoisseurs	p. 32
	To be Liked by You Would be a Calamity	p. 33
	Like a Bulrush	p. 34
	Sojourn in the Whale	p. 35
	My Apish Cousins	p. 36
	Roses Only	p. 37
	Reinforcements	p. 38
	The Fish	p. 39
	Black Earth	p. 41
	Radical	p. 43
	In the Days of Prismatic Color	p. 44
	Peter	p. 45
	Dock Rats	p. 47
	Picking And Choosing	p. 48
	England	p. 49
	When I Buy Pictures	p. 51
	A Grave	p. 52
	Those Various Scalpels	p. 53
	The Labors of Hercules	p. 54
	New York	p. 55
	People's Surroundings	p. 56
	Snakes, Mongooses, Snake-Charmers, and the Like	p. 59
	Bowls	p. 60
	Novices	p. 61
	Marriage	p. 63
	Silence	p. 71
	An Octopus	p. 72
	Sea Unicorns and Land Unicorns	p. 78
	Index	p. 81
	Poems 1932-1936
	Part of a Novel, Part of a Poem, Part of a Play
	The Steeple-Jack	p. 93
	The Student	p. 95
	The Hero	p. 97
	No Swan So Fine	p. 99
	The Jerboa	p. 100
	Camellia Sabina	p. 105
	The Plumet Basilisk	p. 107
	The Frigate Pelican	p. 112
	The Buffalo	p. 115
	Nine Nectarines and Other Porcelain	p. 117
	Pigeons	p. 120
	See in the Midst of Fair Leaves	p. 123
	Walking-Sticks and Paperweights and Watermarks	p. 124
	The Pangolin and Other Verse (1936)
	The Old Dominion Virginia Britannia	p. 131
	Bird-Witted	p. 136
	Half Deity	p. 137
	Smooth Gnarled Crape Myrtle	p. 139
	The Pangolin	p. 141
	From What Are Years (1941)
	What are Years?	p. 147
	Rigorists	p. 148
	Light is Speech	p. 149
	He "Digesteth Harde Yron"	p. 151
	Spenser's Ireland	p. 154
	Four Quartz Crystal Clocks	p. 156
	The Paper Nautilus	p. 158
	Nevertheless (1944)
	Nevertheless	p. 161
	The Wood-Weasel	p. 163
	Elephants	p. 164
	A Carriage from Sweden	p. 167
	The Mind is an Enchanting Thing	p. 169
	In Distrust of Merits	p. 171
	Poems 1944-1951
	"Keeping Their World Large"	p. 177
	His Shield	p. 179
	Propriety	p. 180
	Voracities and Verities Sometimes are Interacting	p. 182
	A Face	p. 183
	By Disposition of Angels	p. 184
	Efforts of Affection	p. 185
	The Icosasphere	p. 186
	Pretiolae	p. 187
	Armor's Undermining Modesty	p. 188
	Quoting An Also Private Thought	p. 190
	We Call Them the Brave	p. 191
	Like a Bulwark (1956)
	Bulwarked against Fate	p. 195
	Apparition of Splendor	p. 196
	Then the Ermine	p. 197
	Tom Fool at Jamaica	p. 198
	The Web One Weaves of Italy	p. 200
	The Staff of Aesculapius	p. 201
	The Sycamore	p. 202
	Rosemary	p. 203
	Style	p. 204
	Logic and "The Magic Flute"	p. 205
	Blessed is the Man	p. 206
	From O TO Be a Dragon (1959)
	O to Be a Dragon	p. 209
	I May, I Might, I Must	p. 210
	A Jellyfish	p. 211
	Values in Use	p. 212
	Hometown Piece for Messrs. Alston and Reese	p. 213
	Enough: Jamestown, 1607-1957	p. 215
	Melchior Vulpius	p. 217
	No better than "a withered daffodil"	p. 218
	In the Public Garden	p. 219
	The Arctic Ox (or Goat)	p. 221
	Saint Nicholas	p. 223
	For February 14th	p. 225
	Combat Cultural	p. 226
	Leonardo da Vinci's	p. 227
	From The Arctic Ox (1964)
	Blue Bug	p. 231
	To Victor Hugo of My Crow Pluto	p. 233
	Baseball and Writing	p. 236
	To a Giraffe	p. 239
	Arthur Mitchell	p. 240
	Tell Me, Tell Me	p. 241
	Rescue with Yul Brynner	p. 243
	Carnegie Hall: Rescued	p. 245
	An Expedient-Leonardo da Vinci's-and a Query	p. 247
	From Tell Me, Tell Me (1966)
	Granite and Steel	p. 251
	In Lieu of the Lyre	p. 252
	The mind, intractable thing	p. 253
	Dream	p. 254
	Old Amusement Park	p. 255
	W. S. Landor	p. 256
	Charity Overcoming Envy	p. 257
	Saint Valentine	p. 258
	Poems 1963-1970
	I've been Thinking ...	p. 261
	Love in America?	p. 263
	Tippoo's Tiger	p. 264
	The Camperdown Elm	p. 265
	Mercifully	p. 266
	"Like a Wave at the Curl"	p. 267
	Enough	p. 268
	The Magician's Retreat	p. 269
	Appendix: Poems 1915-1918
	To a Man Working his Way through the Crowd	p. 273
	To the Soul of "Progress"	p. 274
	That Harp You Play So Well	p. 275
	Counseil to a Bacheler	p. 276
	Appellate Jurisdiction	p. 277
	To William Butler Yeats on Tagore	p. 278
	To a Friend in the Making	p. 279
	Blake	p. 280
	Diogenes	p. 281
	Feed Me, Also, River God	p. 282
	He Made This Screen	p. 283
	Holes Bored in a Workbag by the Scissors	p. 284
	Apropos of Mice	p. 285
	The Just Man And	p. 286
	In "Designing a Cloak to Cloak his Designs," you Wrested from Oblivion, a Coat of Immortality for your own Use	p. 287
	The Past is the Present	p. 288
	You Say You Said	p. 289
	Old Tiger	p. 290
	Moore's Notes	p. 293
	Editor's notes
	Editing the Poems	p. 343
	Notes	p. 357
	Observations	p. 359
	Poems 1932-1936	p. 376
	The Pangolin and Other Verse	p. 389
	From What Are Years	p. 394
	Nevertheless	p. 398
	Poems 1944-1951	p. 400
	Like a Bulwark	p. 403
	From O to Be a Dragon	p. 407
	From The Arctic Ox	p. 413
	From Tell Me, Tell Me	p. 416
	Poems 1963-1970	p. 418
	Appendix: Poems 1915-1918	p. 423
	Sources for Moore's Notes	p. 426
	Original Tables of Contents	p. 429
	Works Cited	p. 443
	Index of Titles and First Lines	p. 445

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