MARIANNE MOORE - THAT HARP YOU PLAY SO WELL IBD

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Marianne Moore - That Harp You Play So WellForgotten Poets #23 / forgottenpoets.substack.com?That Harp You Play So Well? [90 pages] brings together a selection of poems by New York poet, Marianne Moore, including the entire long poem sequence ?Marriage? (1923), and a generous selection of Moore?s other verses (originally published 1921-1924), as well as the essay ?New Verse Since 1912? (1926), with illustrations by Pamela Bianco. Moore was a revolutionary poet, working in the grey space between ?free? and ?rhymed? verse, and a significant poet of the ?new verse? movement of the 1920s.. . . . . . . . .-: TO A SNAIL :-If 'compression is the first grace of style,'you have it. Contractility is a virtueas modesty is a virtue.It is not the acquisition of any one thing that is able to adorn, or the incidental quality that occursas a concomitant of something well said,that we value in style,but the principle that is hid:in the absence of feet, 'a method of conclusions','a knowledge of principles,'in the curious phenomenon of your occipital horn.. . . . . . . . .-: APROPOS OF MICE :-Come in, Rat, and eat with me,One must occasionally-If one would rate the rat at his true worth- Practise catholicity. Cheeseparings and a porkrindStock my house-good of their kind But were they not, you would oblige me?Is Plenty, multiplicity? . . . . . . . . .The Forgotten Poets Newsletter presents: new collections of out-of-print and obscure poetry, with a focus on compressed & fragmented ?free? and ?new? verse from the late-1800s & early-1900s, & the early history of English-language tanka & haiku. Verses are carefully selected & spaciously laid-out, adorned with illustrations & ornaments from the books & magazines they originally appeared in.