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Summer 1940 • Vol. II No. 3 Poetry |

A Glass-Ribbed Nest

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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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