Springer Twenty-First Century Marianne Moore: Essays from a Critical Renaissance (Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics)

This collection represents a new range of critical awareness and marks the burgeoning of what is a twenty-first-century Marianne Moore renaissance. The essays explore Moore’s participation in modernist movements and communities, her impact on subsequent generations of artists, and the dynamics of her largely disregarded post-World War II career. At the same time, they track the intersection of the evolution of her poetics with cultural politics across her career. Drawing on fresh perspectives from previously unknown biographical material and new editions and archives of Moore’s work, the essays offer particularly interesting insights on Moore’s relationships and her late career role as a culture icon.   Review “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) From the Back Cover 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. About the Author 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.