Voices and Visions 08 Marianne Moore

A colorful personality -- she was a baseball enthusiast who threw out the first ball of the 1967 season at Yankee Stadium -- Marianne Moore (1887-1972) was as eccentric in her poetry as she was in her life. Full of paradox and "wild decorum", her poems are modern, natural, and earthy on the one hand, and old-fashioned, artful, and moralistic on the other. Grace Schulman and others offer insights into and read from her poems