Word: poet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time & i dont mean your publication-which is only another type of literature, feel free to print howl, moan or anything else. listen beat does not always mean unwashed or workless-i have 2 exhibitions here within the next fortnight-one at "city lights." gregory corso [is] first angel poet of america. stop laughing at artists...
...Poet von Hofmannsthal's libretto, embroidered with the common myths of half a dozen cultures, concerns a beautiful empress who is unable to cast a shadow and hence to bear children. In search of a shadow, she persuades a dyer's wife to surrender her own, and thus renounce her power to bear children, for luxuries and an imaginary romance. In a mirage of symbolism about human and superhuman love, selfish and selfless love, the dyer's wife eventually realizes that she loves her husband, and the empress sees that she herself cannot buy love in exchange...
...practical and fresh, delicate and forthright, intensely imaginative and keenly observant. To try to reach it, the Collected Poems are the best road. Her new book, so slender that it can be read in an hour, is a simple, narrow, carefree path that proves in a whimsical way that Poet Moore walks through a verseland entirely of her own making...
...contemporary, T. S. Eliot, has said that her work is "part of the small body of durable poetry written in our time." But what fine poet other than Marianne Moore would dare conduct a love affair with the "Brooklyn'' (not the Los Angeles-no, never) Dodgers in verse...
...Dragon only suggests the measure of Poet Moore's true worth. She is mostly having fun, and so will most readers who admire a deft use of language, a faultless grip on verse technique, an underlying love for living things, in such playful lines...