Marianne Moore documentary

Marianne Craig Moore (November 15, 1887 - February 5, 1972) was an American modernist poet, critic, translator, and editor. Her poetry is noted for formal innovation, precise diction, irony, and wit.
Marianne Moore documentary
Voices and Visions
1988

[@myrarucker7953]

These documentaries are just wonderful. Thank you. Thank you!!

[@donaldkelly3983]

Thanks for posting these Voices and Visions documentaries! I saw them when I was much younger and loved them!

[@AuthorDocumentaries]

You're welcome! This series is great. I'll get the rest on here within the next couple weeks.

[@robert0price]

@@AuthorDocumentaries !!! So valuable so beautiful

[@ocdtdc]

These documentaries are great

[@reneem6839]

FYI, her literary estate is now being managed by her grand nephew David M. Moore.

[@TimGreig]

Her Glacier poem reads like poetic prose, almost like a slight overdone travel essay. And that's not such a surprise given her sampling of a lot of travel brochure copy, it's just an observation on my part..,

[@EndingSimple]

Thank you for posting this. Having a sleepless night right now. Not that this is soporific. I remember the Voices and Visions series from a less sad time.

[@janlundberg5924]

Hang in there. It WILL get better. ♡

[@EndingSimple]

@@janlundberg5924 Thank you for that. You are kind.

[@dmswanson5694]

Applause.

[@elizabethhurtado2829]

❤

[@nononouh]

37:20

[@davidmayhew8083]

Using the music from the Exorcist just doesn't help!

[@MrMalvolio29]

If only one could listen to the biography of one of one’s favourite poets, whose “imaginary gardens” had no “real toads in them,” whose life-poem didn’t have to be relayed to us by some of the *most* precious, affected , silly and pretentious people in the world: arrogant critics puffed up with vain pride; and other “poets,” whose disingenuously “admiring” words illuminate the sole Thing they truly feel--envy…

[@xyzllii]

I have tried so hard for years to like the work of M.M. but alas , she bores me. Too much description. Not enough magic.

[@robert0price]

Oh yeah who do you like

[@rogercarroll2551]

And NO music ! Like dry, uncooked oatmeal.

[@robert0price]

@@rogercarroll2551 oh yeah who do you like

[@reneem6839]

The description IS the magic!

[@ZenGrammy]

@@reneem6839I agree ❤

[@helenwheels3341]

Who dat?

[@richspring1]

Incoherent opening imaging far from her sensibility..