What a Mother
Mary-Kay Wilmers: Marianne Moore and Her Mother, 3 December 2015
Holding On Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore
by Linda Leavell.
Farrar, Straus, 455 pp., $18, September 2014,978 0 374 53494 3 Show More
by Linda Leavell.
Farrar, Straus, 455 pp., $18, September 2014,
“... ominous – Helen Vendler refers to ‘the dreadful pathology’ of the Moore household – but Linda Leavell speaks of a ‘family idyll’ in her illuminating biography and describes a memoir Marianne began many years afterwards as making ‘a utopia of her childhood’. Being ‘set apart’ had its uses; and while Marianne sometimes chafed, she ... ”
