Stamps, Money, Pop Culture, and Marianne Moore
1995; Wayne State University Press; Volume: 17; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
1522-5321
Autores Tópico(s)Poetry Analysis and Criticism
ResumoThis essay began as an occasional piece, piqued by the appearance in 1990 of the Marianne Moore twenty-five cents postage stamp (figure 1 ) . The use of the images of literary figures for postal purposes (begun in 1940, with thirty-seven issued to date) is intriguing in itself. And Moore's appearance in the series particularly in. ДПНИЯДИИИИ trigued me because it employs as sign of ■HHHHHBB the authority of the government the image of a woman who spent her life questioning just such established authority. In achieving stamp status, Moore, whose work tirelessly explores issues of cultural authority and the cultural currency by W which it circulates, has herself become an ■ JHL |ДИ image of authority, with a currency of her ЕШНПВНВН Over her sixty-year career, Marianne Figure 1. Marianne Moore: Moore published twelve books and reAmerican Poet, 1887-1972. © U.S.
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