Marianne Moore
The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000
Host Warren Bower and poet Marianne Moore discuss her 1961 collection, A Marianne Moore Reader and how she chose the book's contents, a mix of poetry and her nonfiction writing. Moore reads "A Face", "What Are Years", "I May, I Might, I Must", and her translation of La Fontaine's fable, "The Hen Who Laid A Golden Egg," and says her rule for writing poetry is to, "be affirmative ... you cannot write out of a desire to get even with, or to harm, anyone else."
WNYC archives id: 72850
