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Winter 1943 • Vol. V No. 1 • Book Reviews |

There Is a War That Never Ends

By Marianne Moore

Parts of the World by Wallace Stevens. Knopf. $2.00.

Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction by Wallace Stevens. Cummington Press. $3.00.

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Marianne Moore published multiple books of poetry. She won the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Bollingen Prize. Her poems appeared in the Nation, the New Republic, Partisan Review, and the New Yorker.

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Four Quartz Crystal Clocks

By Marianne Moore

There are four vibrators, the world’s exactest clocks;   and these quartz time-pieces that tell time intervals to other clocks,   these worksless clocks work well: and all four, independently the   same […]

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A Glass-Ribbed Nest

By Marianne Moore

 For authorities whose hopes are shaped by mercenaries?  Writers entrapped by  teatime fame and by commuters’ comforts? Not for these  the paper nautilus constructs her thin glass shell.  Giving her […]

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