Marianne Moore - That Harp You Play So Well

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Marianne Moore - That Harp You Play So Well</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Forgotten Poets #23 / forgottenpoets.substack.com</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>'That Harp You Play So Well' [90 pages] brings together a selection of poems by New York poet Marianne Moore including the entire long poem sequence 'Marriage' (1923) and a generous selection of Moore's other verses (originally published 1921-1924) as well as the essay 'New Verse Since 1912' (1926); with illustrations by Pamela Bianco. Moore was a revolutionary poet working in the grey space between 'free' and 'rhymed' verse and a significant poet of the 'new verse' movement of the 1920s.</span></p><p></p><p><strong><u>. . . . . . . . .</u></strong></p><p></p><p><strong>-: TO A SNAIL :-</strong></p><p></p><p>If compression is the first grace of style</p><p>you have it. Contractility is a virtue</p><p>as modesty is a virtue.</p><p>It is not the acquisition of any one thing that is able to adorn </p><p>or the incidental quality that occurs</p><p>as a concomitant of something well said</p><p>that we value in style</p><p>but the principle that is hid:</p><p>in the absence of feet a method of conclusions;</p><p>a knowledge of principles</p><p>in the curious phenomenon of your occipital horn.</p><p></p><p><strong><u>. . . . . . . . .</u></strong></p><p></p><p><strong>-: APROPOS OF MICE :-</strong></p><p></p><p>Come in Rat and eat with me;</p><p>One must occasionally-</p><p>If one would rate the rat at his true worth- </p><p>Practise catholicity. </p><p></p><p>Cheeseparings and a porkrind</p><p>Stock my house-good of their kind </p><p>But were they not you would oblige me?</p><p>Is Plenty multiplicity? </p><p></p><p><strong><u>. . . . . . . . .</u></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Forgotten Poets Newsletter presents: new collections of out-of-print and obscure poetry with a focus on compressed & fragmented 'free' and 'new' verse from the late-1800s & early-1900s & the early history of English-language tanka & haiku. Verses are carefully selected & spaciously laid-out adorned with illustrations & ornaments from the books & magazines they originally appeared in.</span></p><p></p><p></p>