Marianne Moore and China - Stamy, Cynthia (Visiting Fellow at the School of Advanced Study, Visiting Fellow at the School of Advanced Study, University of London)

Marianne Moore's poetry offers a rich site from which to analze a tradition of American orientalism which focused upon China. This text examines why she chose to participate in that tradition and analyzes why her borrowing of Chinese models was so critical to the formation of her verse.