Holding On Upside Down: The Life & Work Of Marianne Moore by Linda Leavell

125 in stock

239mm x 160mm x 38mm

Pages: 480

Marianne Moore (1887-1972) has been heralded as Americas greatest poet of the modernist movement. Her volume Collected Poems won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1952 and the Bollingen Prize in 1953.

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Moore eventually found her way to New York with her mother whom she continued to live with until her mother passed, a familial devotion so intense that William Carlos Williams complained that it was pathological and prevented her from marrying any literary guys. Moore never married. Linda Leavall is the first biographer to be granted access and freedom to quote from Moores archives. More than just a standard biography, Leavall re-examines Moores body of work to complement and enlighten the biography.

Through Moores poems and letters from T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, and many others, Leavall has written what is sure to be the definitive biography of Moore.