Marianne Moore - That Harp You Play So Well Forgotten Poets #23 / forgottenpoets.substack.com '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. . . . . . . . . . -: TO A SNAIL: - If 'compression is the first grace of style,' you have it. Contractility is a virtue as modesty is a virtue. It is not the acquisition of any one thing that is able to adorn, or the incidental quality that occurs as a concomitant of something well said, that we value in style, but the principle that is hid: in the absence of feet, 'a method of conclusions'; 'a
