Marianne Moore at Yankee Stadium throwing out the first pitch of the 1968 season. Photo: Bob Olen. Marianne Moore Collection, Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia.
Molly Arden’s prose poem, “So Many Literalists,” draws a distinction between “literalists” and “literalists of the imagination.” The latter is a phrase from Marianne Moore’s signature poem “Poetry” (the full-length version, not the bare-bones three-line summary she published, presumably in a fit of literalism, in her “Collected”).
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Author: Nin Andrews
