Life in a Northern Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. B.M.A.T.C., and Etruscan typewriter erasers. Blogged by David Gorsline.
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Happy birthday, Marianne Moore. Laura L. in college was the first one to put one of her books in my hands, the Viking Reader. I used "Four Quartz Crystal Clocks" as a performance piece in an interpretation class. This is the first line of the 1919 version of "Poetry:"
I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this
fiddle.
Update: A Marianne Moore Reader is still in print, but through another publisher now. The reader reprints correspondence between Moore and Ford Motor Company from 1955. FMC solicited suggestions from Moore for a new car; they used none of hers, but went with "Edsel." Moore provided a panoply of more lyrical names, including "Silver Sword," "Resilient Bullet," "Turcotinga," "Mongoose Civique," and ultimately "Utopian Turtletop." posted: 12:34:54 PM |
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