New Collected Poems

Synopsis

The Definitive Collected Edition Of One Of Our Most Innovative And Beloved Poets, Marianne Moore-- The Poems -- Observations (1924) -- To An Intra-mural Rat -- Reticence And Volubility -- To A Chameleon -- A Talisman -- To A Prize Bird -- Injudicious Gardening -- Fear Is Hope -- To A Strategist -- Is Your Town Nineveh? -- A Fool, A Foul Thing, A Distressful Lunatic -- To Military Progress -- An Egyptian Pulled Glass Bottle In The Shape Of A Fish -- To A Steam Roller -- Diligence Is To Magic As Progress Is To Flight -- To A Snail -- The Bricks Are Fallen Down, We Will Build With Hewn Stones. The Sycamores Are Cut Down, We Will Change To Cedars. -- George Moore -- Nothing Will Cure The Sick Lion But To Eat An Ape -- To The Peacock Of France -- In This Age Of Hard Trying, Nonchalance Is Good And -- To Statecraft Embalmed -- The Monkey Puzzler -- Poetry -- The Past Is The Present -- Pedantic Literalist -- He Wrote The History Book -- Critics And Connoisseurs -- To Be Liked By You Would Be A Calamity -- Like A Bulrush -- Sojourn In The Whale -- My Apish Cousins -- Roses Only --^ Reinforcements -- The Fish -- Black Earth -- Radical -- In The Days Of Prismatic Color -- Peter -- Dock Rats -- Picking And Choosing -- England -- When I Buy Pictures -- A Grave -- Those Various Scalpels -- The Labors Of Hercules -- New York -- People's Surroundings -- Snakes, Mongooses, Snake-charmers, And The Like -- Bowls -- Novices -- Marriage -- Silence -- An Octopus -- Sea Unicorns And Land Unicorns -- Index -- Poems 1932-1936 -- Part Of A Novel, Part Of A Poem, Part Of A Play -- The Steeple-jack -- The Student -- The Hero -- No Swan So Fine -- The Jerboa -- Camellia Sabina -- The Plumet Basilisk -- The Frigate Pelican -- The Buffalo -- Nine Nectarines And Other Porcelain -- Pigeons -- See In The Midst Of Fair Leaves -- Walking-sticks And Paperweights And Watermarks -- The Pangolin And Other Verse (1936) -- The Old Dominion -- Virginia Britannia -- Bird-witted -- Half Deity -- Smooth Gnarled Crape Myrtle -- The Pangolin -- From What Are Years (1941) -- What Are Years? --^ Rigorists -- Light Is Speech -- He Digesteth Harde Yron -- Spenser's Ireland -- Four Quartz Crystal Clocks -- The Paper Nautilus -- Nevertheless (1944) -- Nevertheless -- The Wood-weasel -- Elephants -- A Carriage From Sweden -- The Mind Is An Enchanting Thing -- In Distrust Of Merits -- Poems 1944-1951 -- Keeping Their World Large -- His Shield -- Propriety -- Voracities And Verities Sometimes Are Interacting -- A Face -- By Disposition Of Angels -- Efforts Of Affection -- The Icosasphere -- Pretiolae -- Armor's Undermining Modesty -- Quoting An Also Private Thought -- We Call Them The Brave -- Like A Bulwark (1956) -- Bulwarked Against Fate -- Apparition Of Splendor -- Then The Ermine: -- Tom Fool At Jamaica -- The Web One Weaves Of Italy -- The Staff Of Aesculapius -- The Sycamore -- Rosemary -- Style -- Logic And The Magic Flute -- Blessed Is The Man -- From O To Be A Dragon (1959) -- O To Be A Dragon -- I May, I Might, I Must -- A Jellyfish -- Values In Use --^ Hometown Piece For Messrs. Alston And Reese -- Enough: Jamestown, 1607-1957 -- Melchior Vulpius -- No Better Than A Withered Daffodil -- In The Public Garden -- The Arctic Ox (or Goat) -- Saint Nicholas, -- For February 14th -- Combat Cultural -- Leonardo Da Vinci's -- From The Arctic Ox -- Blue Bug -- To Victor Hugo Of My Crow Pluto -- Baseball And Writing -- To A Giraffe -- Arthur Mitchell -- Tell Me, Tell Me -- Rescue With Yul Brynner -- Carnegie Hall: Rescued -- An Expedient -- Leonardo Da Vinci's -- And A Query -- From Tell Me, Tell Me (1966) -- Granite And Steel -- In Lieu Of The Lyre -- The Mind, Intractable Thing -- Dream -- Old Amusement Park -- W. S. Landor -- Charity Overcoming Envy -- Saint Valentine, -- Poems 1963-1970 -- I've Been Thinking . . . (con't) Love In America? -- Tippoo's Tiger -- The Camperdown Elm -- Mercifully, -- Like A Wave At The Curl -- Enough -- The Magician's Retreat -- Appendix: Poems 1915-1918 -- To A Man Working His Way Through The Crowd -- To The Soul Of Progress -- That Harp You Play So Well -- Counseil To A Bacheler -- Appellate Jurisdiction -- To William Butler Yeats On Tagore -- To A Friend In The Making -- Blake -- Diogenes -- Feed Me, Also, River God -- He Made This Screen -- Holes Bored In A Workbag By The Scissors -- Apropos Of Mice -- The Just Man And -- In Designing A Cloak To Cloak His Designs, You Wrested From Oblivion, A Coat Of Immortality For Your Own Use. -- The Past Is The Present -- You Say You Said -- Old Tiger. Marianne Moore ; Edited By Heather Cass White. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 443-444) And Index.