2022 Archive
This year's poet, Marianne Moore, is very much a poet's poet, to borrow a phrase often used when discussing her protégée, Elizabeth Bishop.
There is, as yet, no real annotated editions of her poems. The web, however is a real treasure trove, so long as you don't get lost... There are also some useful reference books at UTJJ, but let me first find the time to go and check which ones are useful to you.
As a reminder, here's a list (in alphabetical order of first lines) of the poems selected for the syllabus :
- Critics and Connoisseurs
- Efforts of Affection
- England
- In the Days of Prismatic Color
- Marriage
- Nevertheless
- New York
- Picking and Choosing
- Tell Me, Tell Me
- The Mind is an Enchanting Thing
- The Pangolin
- The Staff of Aesculapius
- The Steeple-Jack
- The Web One Weaves of Italy
- To a Giraffe
- Virginia Britannia
- When I Buy Pictures
You will find useful resources on Moore and her poetry on the following websites :
- https://moore123.com (last updated in December 2020, it seems, but full of resources, including images and video links to help put the poems in context, and with a search function; run by an academic).
- https://modernamericanpoetry.org/poet/marianne-moore : a treasure trove, with lit crit for most of the major poems, by some of the big guns like Bonnie Costello
- https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/marianne-moore : texts, audio, biography, some lit crit.
- https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2016/spring/feature/when-muhammad-ali-wrote-poem-marianne-moore : unexpected!
- https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4637/the-art-of-poetry-no-4-marianne-moore : Marianne Moore, The Art of Poetry
- https://moorearchive.org/ scans, educational resources, scholarship, bio
- https://mooresociety.org/ more info
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHw-9EEMowU PBS documentary on Marianne Moore
- Yale's course on Moore : https://youtu.be/FSB1Xw0ueWo (part 1) and https://youtu.be/_z3uJOKni1A (part 2)