Marianne Moore

In 1921, American poet H.D. collected and published a selection of previously published poems by Marianne Moore. Although this angered Moore, as it was entirely unauthorized, she later accepted the edition as well made and used it as the basis for her own 1924 publication of Observations. Moores unique poetry matches the experimentation underway during the American Modernist movement. Much of it incorporates seemingly out-of-place quotations into complex free verse that often uses Nature as a subject matter. Today, despite the self-motivated alteration of her poetry in later life, done much to the dismay of her devotees, scholars consider Moore a significant American poet worthy of intense study in an a unalterable place in the canon.

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 Moores 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 Moores 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 Moores 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.

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. A wily cat, a strange romance, detestable daughters: the great American poet Marianne Moore retells three stories originally written by Charles Perrault to amuse the niece of Louis XIV. Modern readers may be surprised to find that the prince does not wake Sleeping Beauty with a kiss - the more he cares, the less willing he is to intrude - and that his mother is descended from ogres. Characterised by vivid imagery, uncluttered prose, inventive alliteration and a sly sceptics wit, Moores versions do more than tell a tale: Having seen a problem solved, she writes, each one leaves a pattern of order in the mind.

LA POESÍA A mí tampoco me gusta. Pero, al leerla con absoluto desprecio, descubrimos en ella, al fin y al cabo, sitio para lo auténtico.

La poeta norteamericana más radical junto a Emily Dickinson, ganadora del Premio Pulitzer y del National Book Award.«Una poeta de poetas».Jaime Gil de Biedma«Marianne Moore se enfrentó a los convenc

Marianne Moore forma parte—junto con T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound y Wallace Stevens, entre otros—de un heterogéneo grupo de poetas que, a principios del siglo pasado, revolucionaron el estancado panorama

La poeta norteamericana más radical junto a Emily Dickinson, ganadora del Premio Pulitzer y del National Book Award. «Una poeta de poetas».Jaime Gil de Biedma «Marianne Moore se enfrentó a los conv

La poeta norteamericana más radical junto a Emily Dickinson, ganadora del Premio Pulitzer y del National Book Award.«Una poeta de poetas».Jaime Gil de Biedma«Marianne Moore se enfrentó a los convenci