Marianne Moore and the Cultures of Modernity

Victoria Bazin examines the poetry of Marianne Moore as it is shaped by and responsive to the experience of being a modern woman, of living in the aftermath of the First World War, of being interpellated as a modern consumer and of writing in "the age of mechanical reproduction." She argues that Moore''s textual collages and syllabic sculptures are based on the cultural clutter or debris of modern...