{"product_id":"moore-marianne-observatio","title":"Moore, Marianne: Observations","description":"\u003cp\u003eFSG, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: April 05, 2016\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: Marianne Moore's Observations stands with T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, Ezra Pound's early Cantos, and Wallace Stevens's Harmonium as a landmark of modern poetry. But to the chagrin of many admirers, Moore eliminated a third of its contents from her subsequent poetry collections while radically revising some of the poems she retained. This groundbreaking book has been unavailable to the general reader since its original publication in the 1920s.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePresented with a new introduction by Linda Leavell, the author of the award-winning biography Holding On Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore, this reissue of Observations at last allows readers to experience the untamed force of Moore's most dazzling innovations. Her fellow modernists were thrilled by her originality, her clear, flawless language--to them she was a rafter holding up . . . our uncompleted building. Equally forceful for subsequent generations, Observations was an eye-opener to the young Elizabeth Bishop, its poems miracles of language and construction. John Ashbery has called An Octopus the finest poem of our greatest modern poet. Moore's heroic open-mindedness and prescient views on multiculturalism, biodiversity, and individual liberty make her work uniquely suited to our times.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eImpeccably precise yet playfully elusive, emotionally complex but stripped of all sentiment, the poems in Observations show us one of America's greatest poets at the height of her powers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40679356760087,"sku":"9780374226862","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/view_archive_d4f85246-05e6-4678-81ab-7390736ef7b5.jpg?v=1700174740","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/moore-marianne-observatio","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}