"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)
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.- “Archiving Marianne 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 & Sexuality
Studies Program at the University of Houston, USA.
Stacy Carson Hubbard is Associate Professor of English, University of Buffalo, USA.
This collection represents the growing twenty-first-century critical engagement with Marianne
Moore’s poetry: a Moore renaissance that draws on expanded biographical and archival
materials and new editions of her work. These essays by a lively group of established and
emerging Moore scholars explore many new dimensions of Moore’s poetry, including its
intimate relationships with food, numbers, labor politics, Persian art, religious hermeneutics,
and dance. They examine the impact of precursors and contemporaries on Moore’s oeuvre,
as well as her poetry’s influence on subsequent generations of artists. The volume also sheds new light on Moore’s editorial work and on her underappreciated post-World War II career as a
cultural icon. The volume concludes with six brief scholarly memoirs on the evolution of Moore studies since the 1980s.