EDITIONS

The Poems of Marianne Moore (2003)

“The Poems of Marianne Moore, edited by her friend Grace Schulman, gathers some 100 previously uncollected, mostly early, poems and clarifies her poetic development. Moore died in New York City in 1972, at the age of 84, and until now the standard text has been the Complete Poems of 1967. The new edition reveals plainly how, as her poetry steadily evolved, what was foursquare became lopsided, discrepant, asymmetric. What was solid became fluid; what was fixed, untethered. Titles to poems lost their isolation (she converted them into first lines by bleeding them straight into the text) and the text itself dissolved into supplementary notes (some of her poems make little sense without them). Stanzas grew more rococo while, increasingly, the sentences inlaid into them originated and halted in unexpected places.”  -Brad Leithauser, The New York Times Book Review, January 4, 20004.

“A splendid, much-needed edition… by one of the most witty, alert, scapular and truthful American modernists. -Edward Hirsch, The Washington Post

“Grace Schulman edited a complete edition (2003), ordering the poems not by their initial book appearances but chronologically. This was the first real collected edition, and gathered some 256 poems (including a few selections from her Fables of La Fontaine).” -William Doreski, Harvard Review Online

“The Poems of Marianne Moore, edited by the poet Grace Schulman, was groundbreaking, containing dozens of uncollected poems composed before the publication of Moore’s first collection in 1921. Many of these poems—which Schulman discovered in Moore’s archive at the Rosenbach Museum and Library in Philadelphia, where the original versions still live—date from Moore’s time as a precocious undergraduate at Bryn Mawr.” - Maggie Millner, The Yale Review, April 19, 2023

“Schulman's long-anticipated volume presents, for the first time, the full span of Moore's work, from her flirtatious, tangy collegiate light verse, through a trove of promising poems from the 1910s, and including masterpieces that for decades were available only in libraries. -Publisher’s Weekly.

“With The Poems of Marianne Moore, edited by the poet Grace Schulman, the nonacademic public can for the first time view all Moore’s strongest poems, in their first—or close to their first—finished states.” -Stephanie Burt, Slate, November 11, 2003.