If omissions are not accidents,
what’s included may not be
deliberate, and often makes less sense
than silence, best of derniers cris.
Brad Leithauser reviews “The Poems of Marianne Moore, ” edited by Grace Schulman (Viking) in The New York Times Book Review (January 4,2004) :
The earlier “Complete Poems” opened with a striking authorial dictum: “Omissions are not accidents.” The new book shows her guilty of that most forgivable of all artistic sins—excessive rigor towards one’s own work.
1/4/04
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