{"product_id":"observations","title":"OBSERVATIONS","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrom the press\u003c\/em\u003e: Marianne Moore's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eObservations\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e stands with T. S. Eliot's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Waste Land\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Ezra Pound's early \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eCantos\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and Wallace Stevens's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHarmonium\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e as a landmark of modern poetry. But to the chagrin of many admirers, Moore eliminated a third of its contents from her subsequent poetry collections while radically revising some of the poems she retained. This groundbreaking book has been unavailable to the general reader since its original publication in the 1920s.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePresented with a new introduction by Linda Leavell, the author of the award-winning biography \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHolding On Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, this reissue of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eObservations\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eat last allows readers to experience the untamed force of Moore's most dazzling innovations. Her fellow modernists were thrilled by her originality, her \"clear, flawless\" language--to them she was \"a rafter holding up . . . our uncompleted building.\" Equally forceful for subsequent generations, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eObservations\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was an \"eye-opener\" to the young Elizabeth Bishop, its poems \"miracles of language and construction.\" John Ashbery has called \"An Octopus\" the finest poem of \"our greatest modern poet.\" Moore's heroic open-mindedness and prescient views on multiculturalism, biodiversity, and individual liberty make her work uniquely suited to our times.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eImpeccably precise yet playfully elusive, emotionally complex but stripped of all sentiment, the poems in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eObservations\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e show us one of America's greatest poets at the height of her powers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46476375785647,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0643\/8479\/4799\/files\/Bookpictemplate_setborderto1.2pt_15_074f8064-aaae-45b6-b459-d0a7a4d216bf.png?v=1773516317","url":"https:\/\/newmaterialbooks.com\/products\/observations","provider":"New Material Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}