Poems of Marianne Moore: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Poems of Marianne Moore, credited to Marianne Moore, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of Poems, by Marianne Moore. Read by Oscar Goff. In 1921, American poet H.D. collected and published a selection of previously published poems by Marianne Moore. Although this angered Moore, as it was entirely unauthorized, she later accepted the edition as well made and used it as the basis for her own 1924 publication of Obersvations. Moore's unique poetry matches the experimentation underway during the American Modernist movement. Much of it incorporates seemingly out-of-place quotations into complex free verse that often uses Nature as a subject matter. Today, despite the self-motivated alteration of her poetry in later life, done much to the dismay of her devotees, scholars consider Moore a significant American poet worthy of intense study in an a unalterable place in the canon. (Summary by Oscar Goff)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Poems of Marianne Moore
• Author credits: Marianne Moore
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 24
• Listed recording duration: 39:51

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• poems
• marianne moore
• blank verse
• modernism

Track guide

1. 01 - Pedantic Literalist — 1:17
2. 02 - To A Steamroller — 1:05
3. 03 - Diligence Is To Magic As Progress Is To Flight — 1:15
4. 04 - Those Various Scalpels — 2:09
5. 05 - Feed Me, Also, River God, — 1:28
6. 06 - To William Butler Yeats On Tagore — 0:54
7. 07 - He Made This Screen — 0:51
8. 08 - Talisman — 0:49
9. 09 - Black Earth — 3:26
10. 10 - He Wrote the History Book, It Said — 0:55
11. 11 - You Are Like the Realistic Product of an Idealistic Search For Gold At the Foot of the Rainbow — 0:53
12. 12 - Reinforcements — 1:02
13. 13 - Roses Only — 1:46
14. 14 - In This Age Of Hard Trying Nonchalance Is Good, And — 1:34
15. 15 - The Fish — 1:50
16. 16 - My Apish Cousins — 2:02
17. 17 - When I Buy Pictures — 2:20
18. 18 - Picking And Choosing — 2:24
19. 19 - England — 3:01
20. 20 - Dock Rats — 2:18
21. 21 - Radical — 1:24
22. 22 - Poetry — 2:17
23. 23 - In the Days of Prismatic Color — 2:08
24. 24 - Is Your Town Ninevah? — 0:57

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