Examines fresh biographical information and archival material to update current scholarship on Marianne Moore
Considers Moore's participation and influence on modernist movements and communities
Explores Moore's lesser-known post-World War II career

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Elizabeth Gregory is Professor of English and Director of the Women's, Gender & SexualityStudies Program at the University of Houston, USA.
Stacy Carson Hubbard is Associate Professor of English, University of Buffalo, USA.

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This collection represents the growing twenty-first-century critical engagement with MarianneMoore's poetry: a Moore renaissance that draws on expanded biographical and archivalmaterials and new editions of her work. These essays by a lively group of established andemerging Moore scholars explore many new dimensions of Moore's poetry, including itsintimate 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 acultural icon. The volume concludes with six brief scholarly memoirs on the evolution of Moore studies since the 1980s.

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Elizabeth Gregory & Stacy Carson Hubbard.- These Things: Moore's Habits of Adduction.- Moore's Numbers.- Yellow Roses and Bulbuls: Marianne Moore's Persian Effects.- Contrarieties Equally True: Marianne Moore and William Blake.- The Teacher Was Speaking of Unrhymed Verse: Marianne Moore, E. H. Kellogg, and the Poetry of Modernist Hermeneutics.- Editorial Compression: Marianne Moore at The Dial Magazine.- Marianne Moore and Modern Labor.- Marianne Moore's Light Is Speech: Decision Magazine and the Wartime Work of Intellectual Exchange.- Mysteries Expound Mysteries: Marianne Moore's Influence on John Ashbery.- The first grace of style: Marianne Moore and the Writing of Dancing.- Passion for the Particular: Marianne Moore, Henry James, Beatrix Potter and the Refuge of Close Reading.- Is Andy Warhol Marianne Moore?: Celebrity, Celibacy and Subversion.- ArchivingMarianne Moore.-Finding Moore: No Search Engines, No Indexes, No Computers.- Documenting Moore.- Discovering Moore.- Advertising Moore.-Editing Moore.