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Holding On Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore
Linda Leavell
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Description for Holding On Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore
Hardback. Born in St Louis, Missouri, Marianne Moore eventually found her way to New York with her mother whom she continued to live with until her mother passed, a familial devotion so intense that William Carlos Williams complained that it was 'pathological' and prevented her from marrying any 'literary guys'. Moore never married. Num Pages: 480 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 241 x 41. Weight in Grams: 782.
Marianne Moore (1887-1972) has been heralded as America's greatest poet of the modernist movement. Her volume Collected Poems won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1952 and the Bollingen Prize in 1953.
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Moore eventually found her way to New York with her mother whom she continued to live with until her mother passed, a familial devotion so intense that William Carlos Williams complained that it was 'pathological' and prevented her from marrying any 'literary guys'. Moore never married. Linda Leavall is the first biographer to be granted access and freedom to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571301829
SKU
V9780571301829
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Ref
99-63
About Linda Leavell
Linda Leavell is a Professor Emerita of English at Oklahoma State University. Her first book, Marianne Moore and the Visual Arts: Prismatic Color (LSU 1995), won the SCMLA book award and her articles on Moore have appeared in various publications, among them American Literary History and Twentieth Century Literature.
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