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Critics And Poets On Marianne Moore: "A Right Good Salvo Of Barks"
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The first collection of essays about Marianne Moore to appear in fifteen years, this book brings together the work of well established Moore scholars such as Patricia C. Willis, Elizabeth Gregory, Cristanne Miller, Linda Leavell, and Robin G. Schulze, with that of new contributors to the field. The essays in this volume, written from a variety of international perspectives, range across the most pressing concerns of contemporary literary study and reassert Moore's centrality to a critical and poetic field in which she has been surprisingly marginalized. This book also includes poems written by contemporary poets, many of them significant contributors to scholarship on Moore, as a way of acknowledging the importance of Moore's verse to living writers. The poems compliment the scholarly essays by demonstrating in verse the important ways in which Moore's artistic achievements have stimulated her successors. Illustrated.
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266 pages, Hardcover
First published November 1,2005
This edition
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266 pages, Hardcover
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January 1, 2005 by UNKNO
- ISBN
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9780838756164
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0838756166
- Language
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English
About the author
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Linda Leavell is a scholar of American poetry and art, especially of the early twentieth century. She attended Interlochen Arts Academy and has degrees from Baylor University (BA) and Rice University (PhD). She taught English at Rhodes College during the 1985-86 academic year and taught American literature at Oklahoma State University from 1986 to 2010.
Her first book, _Marianne Moore and the Visual Arts: Prismatic Color_, analyzes Moore's poetry within the context of modernism in the visual arts . Research for that book led to her second book, _Holding On Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore_ . This is the first authorized biography of the poet.
“The moment is ripe for [Moore] to be restored to us, depixified and complex," wrote Holland Cotter in _The New York Times_, "And so she has been in a swift, cool but empathetic new biography...It says much for Ms. Leavell's account of Moore's life that for all the hard and hard-to-fathom facts it marshals, it leaves the miracles intact.”
Linda Leavell has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, The Humanities Center at Oregon State University, and the Oklahoma Humanities Council.
Her first book won the South Central Modern Language Association book award. _Holding On Upside Down_ won he PEN/Jacquelin Bograd Weld Award for biography and the Plutarch Award for the best biography of 2013. It was a finalist for t the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism.
Her first book, _Marianne Moore and the Visual Arts: Prismatic Color_, analyzes Moore's poetry within the context of modernism in the visual arts . Research for that book led to her second book, _Holding On Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore_ . This is the first authorized biography of the poet.
“The moment is ripe for [Moore] to be restored to us, depixified and complex," wrote Holland Cotter in _The New York Times_, "And so she has been in a swift, cool but empathetic new biography...It says much for Ms. Leavell's account of Moore's life that for all the hard and hard-to-fathom facts it marshals, it leaves the miracles intact.”
Linda Leavell has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, The Humanities Center at Oregon State University, and the Oklahoma Humanities Council.
Her first book won the South Central Modern Language Association book award. _Holding On Upside Down_ won he PEN/Jacquelin Bograd Weld Award for biography and the Plutarch Award for the best biography of 2013. It was a finalist for t the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism.
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