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Linda Leavell

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in Louisville, KY, The United States

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Linda Leavell is a scholar of American poetry and art, especially of the early twentieth century. She attended Interlochen Arts Academy and has degrees from Baylor University (BA) and Rice University (PhD). She taught English at Rhodes College during the 1985-86 academic year and taught American literature at Oklahoma State University from 1986 to 2010.

Her first book, _Marianne Moore and the Visual Arts: Prismatic Color_, analyzes Moore's poetry within the context of modernism in the visual arts . Research for that book led to her second book, _Holding On Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore_ . This is the first authorized biography of the poet.

“The moment is ripe for [Moore] to be restored to us, depixified and complex," wrote ...more

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	Observations: Poems by Marianne Moore, Linda Leavell (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.06 avg rating — 287 ratings — published 1924 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Holding On Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore 4.22 avg rating — 126 ratings — published 2013 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Marianne Moore and the Visual Arts: Prismatic Color 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Critics And Poets On Marianne Moore: "A Right Good Salvo Of Barks" by Linda Leavell (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Cristanne Miller it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2005	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	[Holding On Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore] [By: Leavell, Linda] [September, 2014] by Linda Leavell (Goodreads Author), Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“In the new era of identity politics, Moore became the wrong kind of woman with whom to identify. Little did Rich and her adherents imagine in the 1970s and '80s that the fatherless Moore had been reared by lesbians and educated by feminists.”
― Linda Leavell, Holding On Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore

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“[The jerboa] survives depravity not by adopting habits of better-known species but by adapting creatively to the unique rigors of its environment. Although Moore's animals do have innately poetic qualities, such as the jerboa's rhythmic leaps, the poems emphasize what she would later identify as her most valuable assets as an artist: persistence and fortitude. Her animal poems are both instructions in the art of survival and acts of survival themselves.”
― Linda Leavell, Holding On Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore

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“The poem presents maternal love as a paradox: monstrous on the one hand and "the only fortress strong enough to trust to" on the other.”
― Linda Leavell, Holding On Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore

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