New collected poems
(Book)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"The definitive collected edition of one of our most innovative and beloved poets, Marianne Moore"--,Provided by publisher.

At long last, the landmark achievement of Marianne Moore, one of the major inventors of poetic modernism, is presented entire, in a fully annotated and comprehensive edition - a task that has proved difficult. Until now, there has been no good vantage point from which to see the body of her remarkable work as a whole. New Collected Poems affirms Moore's central presence in the pantheon of American letters. Throughout her life Moore arranged and rearranged, visited and revisited, a large majority of her existing poetry, interspersing new work among old and continually revising ever her best-known poems. As a result, sorting out the complex textual history that Moore left behind is a pressing task if we mean to represent the complete picture of her as a poet. New Collected Poems undertakes that work, in the process providing a newly accurate portrait of Moore's skillful and singular voice, and of the modernist culture she helped create. William Carlos Williams, remarking on the impeccable precision of her poems, found in them "the aesthetic pleasure engendered when pure craftsmanship joins hard surfaces skillfully." It is only in New Collected Poems that we can read Moore's poems as Williams and many other illustrious admirers knew them. Edited by Heather Cass White, one of the foremost scholars of Moore's work, this new edition at last allows readers to experience the full force of these dazzling works as the author originally made them. -- from dust jacket.