The Boston Globe, October 26th, 1997
THE SELECTED LETTERS OF MARIANNE MOORE Bonnie Costello, general editor; Celeste Goodridge and Cristanne Miller, associate editors. Knopf. 544 pp. $35. Donald Hall, poet, is the author most recently of "The Old Life." He lives in New Hampshire. Marianne Moore was of a piece throughout -- scrupulous, intelligent, comic, formal, generous, ironic, charming, eccentric, brilliant, and bewildering. With the publication of "The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore," we have added considerably to the published work of the poet -- and the letters are a clear addition to her oeuvre. It's not always so. Tho...
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