Marianne Moore and the Visual Arts: Prismatic Colour - Tapa dura

Leavell (English, Oklahoma State U.) examines the role the visual arts played in the development of Moore's poetry. B&w photos and examples of modernist art show the poet's work in its interdisciplinary context as the author traces the formation of Moore's modernism from her exposure to arts and crafts ideology in adolescence to her position as editor of the Dial in the late 1920s, where she became America's foremost arbiter of modernist taste. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Linda Leavell is associate professor of English at Oklahoma State University.