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They are written in a kind of perfected prose-a prose stripped of all discursive verbiage and whittled down into functional verse shapes. Thus, of a hen mocking bird engaged in feeding her brood, Poetess Moore writes...
...three similar, meek-coated bird...
...loyalty and faith, is as useful to man as tightly fitting scales are to an artichoke. By conveying such pragmatic truths, Marianne Moore's work, to a degree unique in contemporary poetry, inspires a fresh moral appreciation of the world. In poetess Moore American utilitarianism has found its bird of paradise...
...fans seldom see a flying lady "snowbird." Last week, at New York's Bear Mountain, 4,000 blue-nosed fans not only saw one but were dazzled by her pluck. The rare bird: Dorothy Graves, 18-year-old factory worker from Greenfield, Mass...
...carried a sick Great Dane home to her apartment, refused to sing in an Ohio town until authorities ministered to an unhappy mule lying in the street. One of her adopted strays won a Manhattan pet show prize-for dogs "combining the most breeds." She buys 25 Ib. of bird seed a week, which she spreads on her window sills-to the delight of birds and the chagrin of her fellow tenants; the bird-droppings make quite a mess. Says Mme. Hempel: "I am quite, quite foolish about animals...