Arts and Grafts: Marianne Moore’s Poetry and the Culture of Exception

Moore is certainly best known for her oddly meticulous plant and animal descriptions, which the phrase “imaginary gardens with real toads in them” has sometimes come to synthesize. This article reexamines some of these peculiar specimens in light of the tensions they engage between exceptionality an...

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Autor principal:	Aurore Clavier
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Publicado:	Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès 2021
Materias:	Marianne Moore (1887-1972) exception poetry poetics grafting quotation Sociology (General) HM401-1281
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:ae41d7e6405543f8a569a1d9954e3b142021-12-02T10:41:58ZArts and Grafts: Marianne Moore’s Poetry and the Culture of Exception2108-655910.4000/miranda.42440https://doaj.org/article/ae41d7e6405543f8a569a1d9954e3b142021-10-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/miranda/42440https://doaj.org/toc/2108-6559Moore is certainly best known for her oddly meticulous plant and animal descriptions, which the phrase “imaginary gardens with real toads in them” has sometimes come to synthesize. This article reexamines some of these peculiar specimens in light of the tensions they engage between exceptionality and representativeness. Relying on processes of selection and inclusion, the poetics of grafting at work in her botanical pieces seem to entail the assimilation of heterogenous elements—whether vegetable or literary scions—into one organism and single habitat, which could thereby be made to represent the space for a democracy of species and voices. But while Moore’s integration of diversity does evince a growing participation in the arena of public discourse, her idiosyncratic writing also resists synthesis and keeps cultivating exception. More than the specimens of a common species, her hybrid creatures are staged as composite singular cases, whose poetic and political mode of existence is that of the “melee” rather than the “melange” (Nancy).Aurore ClavierUniversité Toulouse - Jean JaurèsarticleMarianne Moore (1887-1972)exceptionpoetrypoeticsgraftingquotationSociology (General)HM401-1281ENFRMiranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone, Vol 23 (2021)
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description	Moore is certainly best known for her oddly meticulous plant and animal descriptions, which the phrase “imaginary gardens with real toads in them” has sometimes come to synthesize. This article reexamines some of these peculiar specimens in light of the tensions they engage between exceptionality and representativeness. Relying on processes of selection and inclusion, the poetics of grafting at work in her botanical pieces seem to entail the assimilation of heterogenous elements—whether vegetable or literary scions—into one organism and single habitat, which could thereby be made to represent the space for a democracy of species and voices. But while Moore’s integration of diversity does evince a growing participation in the arena of public discourse, her idiosyncratic writing also resists synthesis and keeps cultivating exception. More than the specimens of a common species, her hybrid creatures are staged as composite singular cases, whose poetic and political mode of existence is that of the “melee” rather than the “melange” (Nancy).
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Arts and Grafts: Marianne Moore’s Poetry and the Culture of Exception

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