Week 2, Junkyard Entries

I am devoting this week to Marianne Moore.

1. "So that in looking at some apparently small object, one feels the swirl of great events"-William Carlos Williams, Essay "Marianne Moore" (1925)
Specificity. 

2. "Poetry", Marianne Moore (1919)
"I, too dislike it" 

3. "James Joyce has been wrongly subjected to indignity by stupid people"-Marianne Moore to Ezra Pound in a letter (1921).
She goes on in the letter to use stupid several more times. I like the bluntness.  

4. "mongrel art"-Marianne Moore to Ezra Pound in a letter (1921).
This makes me think of what we made today during the calisthenics. 

5. I am so sorry to have missed the game at the polo grounds but I miss so much, nearly everything, that I am hardened to loss"-Marianne Moore to William Carlos Williams in a letter (1935). 
Connections of loss and losing from "One Art" by Bishop. This sentence comes after a discussion of WWII and Hitler.