Front:
"IMAGINARY GARDENS
Marianne Moore
25
WITH REAL TOADS
IN THEM"
American Poet 1887-1972
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1990
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Astionweds
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MARIANNE MOORE
First Day of Issue: April 18, 1990
First Issue Location: Brooklyn, NY
Born in a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, on November 15,
1887, Marianne Moore was a teacher, librarian, editor
and mentor to young artists as well as a poet of great
renown. A graduate of Bryn Mawr College, she spent
most of her adult life in Brooklyn, where she was a
devoted fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team.
Moore entertained an inordinate interest in athletes and
animals which she said “are subjects of art and exemplars
of it ... minding their own business." Of her own art, the
poet said, “I like straight writing, end-stopped lines, an
effect of flowing continuity." That she achieved this style
is confirmed by the words commonly used to describe her
work — clarity, precision, cleanness and accuracy. In
1952, following a lifetime spent publishing works of her
own and encouraging those of aspiring young writers,
Moore won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award,
and the Bollingen Prize. She continued her life's work and
her encouragement of others until her death in New York
City on February 5, 1972.
No. 90-13
©1990 The Maximum Card Collection
A Division of Unicover Corporation • Cheyenne, WY 82008-0007
Original painting by Shannon Stirnweis
