e-branch	Login My List - 0 Help
	Home   My Account/Renew Loans   Community Info   KidSearch   New Catalogue!

Search Advanced By Format By Number My Searches Can't Find it? Find Magazine Articles & more Problems?

Search:  Title Starts with...Title Keyword(s)Author/Performer/Name (Last,First)Author/Performer/Name Keyword(s)Subject Starts with...Subject Keyword(s)Series Starts with...Series Keyword(s)Anyword/AnywhereList Name Keyword(s)       Refine Search     > You're searching: Halifax Public Libraries

Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Choice Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Leavell, Linda, 1954-     Subjects     Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972.     Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography.     Poets, American -- Missouri -- Biography.     Mothers and daughters -- Biography.     Fatherless families -- Biography.     Single women -- United States -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Leavell, Linda, 1954-       by title:      Holding on upside do...       by call number:      921 M823L     Search the Web     Leavell, Linda, 1954-     Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972.     Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography.     Poets, American -- Missouri -- Biography.     Mothers and daughters -- Biography.     Fatherless families -- Biography.     Single women -- United States -- Biography.       MARC Display

Holding on upside down : the life and work of Marianne Moore / Linda Leavell. by Leavell, Linda, 1954- Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013. Call #: 921 M823L Subjects Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972.   Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography.   Poets, American -- Missouri -- Biography.   Mothers and daughters -- Biography.   Fatherless families -- Biography.   Single women -- United States -- Biography. ISBN:  9780374107291 (hc.) 0374107297 (hc.) Edition:  First edition. Description:  xxi, 455 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary:  "A mesmerizing and essential biography of the modernist American poet Marianne Moore. The Marianne Moore that survives in the popular imagination is dignified, white-haired, and demure in her tricorne hat; she lives with her mother until the latter’s death; she maintains meaningful friendships with fellow poets but never marries or falls in love. Linda Leavell delves beneath the surface of this calcified image to reveal a passionate, canny woman caught between genuine devotion to her mother and an irrepressible desire for personal autonomy and freedom. Her many poems about survival are not just quirky nature studies but acts of survival themselves. Not only did the young poet join the Greenwich Village artists and writers who wanted to overthrow all her mother's pieties but she also won their admiration for the radical originality of her language and the technical proficiency of her verse. After her mother's death thirty years later, the aging recluse transformed herself, against all expectations, into a charismatic performer and beloved celebrity. She won virtually every literary prize available to her and was widely hailed as America's greatest living poet. Elegantly written, meticulously researched, critically acute, and psychologically nuanced"--Provided by publisher. Genre:  Biographies. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Home Delivery - HN Adult Biography 921 M823L Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.