POEMS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN The Marianne Moore Edit #22

POEMS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN [PITPD] represents a new form of poetic anthology—one that celebrates the role of the reader in shaping the life of a poem. PITPD was originally launched as a long-form generative collection in 2022, in which 14 readers took turns discovering 30 classic poems. This Marianne Moore Edit, created specially for the RE-PLACEMENT exhibition, presents four texts from Moore’s seminal 1921 book POEMS and introduces a 15th reader, with new identifying handwriting. As in the original collection–and inspired by Roland Barthe's maxim: those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere–each reader is represented by multiple pen colors, suggesting the cruc...View all