What a Mother
Mary-Kay Wilmers: Marianne Moore and Her Mother, 3 December 2015
Holding On Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore
by Linda Leavell.
Farrar, Straus, 455 pp., $18, September 2014,978 0 374 53494 3 Show More
by Linda Leavell.
Farrar, Straus, 455 pp., $18, September 2014,
“... an artist’, she replied: ‘Endless curiosity, observation, research – and a great amount of joy in the thing.’In place of a diary she kept a notebook – ‘I salvage anything promising and set it down in a small notebook.’ She didn’t use it to write about her feelings or about herself. She was interested in the fate of her poems, not in the mood ... ”