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MarianneMoore(1887-1972)oncesaidthatherwritingcouldbecalledpoetry onlybecausetherewasnoothernameforit.Indeedherpoemsappeartobe extremelycompressedessaysthathappentobeprintedinjaggedlinesonthe page.Hersubjectswerevaried:animals,laborers,artists,andthecraftof poetry.Fromhergeneralreadingcamequotationsthatshefoundstrikingor insightful.Sheincludedtheseinherpoems,scrupulouslyenclosedinquotation marks,andsometimesidentifiedinfootnotes.Ofthispractice,shewrote,"Why manyquotationmarks?"Iamasked...Whenathinghasbeensowellthatit couldnotbesaidbetter,whyparaphraseit?Hence,mywritingis,ifnota cabinetoffossils,akindofcollectionoffliesinamber."Closeobservationand concentration on detail and themethods of her poetry.

MarianneMooregrewupinKirkwood,Missouri,nearSt.Lois.After graduationfromBrynMawrCollegein1909,shetaughtcommercialsubjects

attheIndianSchoolinCarlisle,Pennsylvania.Latershebecamealibrarianin New York City. During the 1920’s she waseditor of

TheDial,animportantliterarymagazineoftheperiod.Shelivedquietlyall herlife,mostlyinBrooklyn,NewYork.ShespentalotoftimeattheBronx Zoo,fascinatedbyanimals.HeradmirationoftheBrooklynDodgers-before the team moved toLos Angeles-was widely known.

HerfirstbookofpoemswaspublishedinLondonin1921byagroupof friendsassociatedwiththeImagistmovement.Fromthattimeonherpoetry hasbeenreadwithinterestbysucceedinggenerationsofpoetsandreaders.In 1952shewasawardedthePulitzerPrizeforherCollectedPoems.Shewrote thatshedidnotwritepoetryformoneyorfame.Toearnalivingisneedful,but itcanbedoneinroutineways.Onewritesbecause onehasaburningdesireto objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express.

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