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Her fellow modernists were thrilled by her originality, her \"clear, flawless\" language--to them she was \"a rafter holding up . . . our uncompleted building.\" Equally forceful for subsequent generations, \u003ci\u003eObservations\u003c\/i\u003e was an \"eye-opener\" to the young Elizabeth Bishop, its poems \"miracles of language and construction.\" John Ashbery has called \"An Octopus\" the finest poem of \"our greatest modern poet.\" Moore's heroic open-mindedness and prescient views on multiculturalism, biodiversity, and individual liberty make her work uniquely suited to our times. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eImpeccably precise yet playfully elusive, emotionally complex but stripped of all sentiment, the poems in \u003ci\u003eObservations\u003c\/i\u003e show us one of America's greatest poets at the height of her powers.","brand":"Marianne Moore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43806026793002,"sku":"9780374226862","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/observations-poems-4413058.jpg?v=1762481021"},{"product_id":"poems-of-marianne-moore","title":"Poems of Marianne Moore","description":"\u003cb\u003eA Penguin Classic\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis complete collection of Moore's poetry, lovingly edited by prize-winning poet Grace Schulman, for the first time gathers together all of Moore's poems, including more than a hundred that were previously uncollected and unpublished. This long-awaited volume will reveal to Moore's admirers the scope of her poetic voice and will introduce new generations of readers to her extraordinary achievement.\u003cp\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. 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Throughout her life Moore arranged and rearranged, visited and revisited, a large majority of her existing poetry, always adding new work interspersed among revised poems. This makes sorting out the complex textual history that she left behind a pressing task if we mean to represent her work as a poet in a way that gives us a complete picture. \u003ci\u003eNew Collected Poems \u003c\/i\u003eoffers an answer to the question of how to represent the work of a poet so skillful and singular, giving a portrait of the range of her voice and of the modernist culture she helped create. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWilliam Carlos Williams, remarking on the impeccable precision of Moore's poems, praised \"the aesthetic pleasure engendered when pure craftsmanship joins hard surfaces skillfully.\" It is only in \u003ci\u003eNew Collected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e that we can understand her later achievements, see how she refashioned her earlier work, and get a more complete understanding of her consummate craftsmanship, innovation, and attention to detail. 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Marianne Moore's correspondence makes up the largest and most broadly significant collection of any modern poet. It documents the first two-thirds of this century, reflecting shifts from Victorian to modernist culture, the experience of the two world wars, the Depression and postwar prosperity, and the changing face of the arts in America and Europe. Moore wrote letters daily for most of her life--long, intense letters to friends and family; shorter, but always distinctive letters to an ever-widening circle of acquaintances and fans. At the height of her celebrity, she would occasionally write as many as fifty letters a day. Both Moore and her correspondents appreciated the value of their exchange, so that an extraordinary number of letters, approximately thirty thousand, have been preserved . . . It is Moore's poetry that draws us to her letters, of course. But in making this selection we have tried to present the life and mind of a woman whose interests extended to all the arts, to religion, politics, and psychology, to fashion, sports, and the domestic arts, moving freely between high culture and popular culture, and whose family and friendships remained as important as her professional life. Moore's correspondence is unique in the extent of its extraliterary interests and passionate engagement with the world at large. From her college adventures, her travels, and the flurry of her artistic and social activities, thereseems to have been no lull. 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