Holding On Upside Down

This “perceptive and elegant biography” of modernist poet Marianne Moore “captures well the strange and entrancing drama” of her life ( The Wall Street Journal ). Winner of the Plutarch Award for the Best Biography of 2013 In the popular imagination, Marianne Moore is dignified, white-haired, and demure in her tricorne hat. She lives with her mother until the latter’s death. She maintains meaningful friendships with fellow poets but never marries or falls in love. Linda Leavell’s Holding On Upsi