Marianne Moore’s first book, issued in London in 1921, gathers early poems of startling precision and wit. Here are Pedantic Literalist, To a Steam Roller, Those Various Scalpels and To William Butler Yeats on Tagore, with their odd syllabic forms, quotations and exact images of things and animals.
The debut of a major American modernist, short enough to read in an evening. Download the free EPUB.