What Miss Moore's best poetry does, I can say best in her words: it "comes into and steadies the soul,” so that the reader feels himself "a life prisoner, but reconciled.”. (Randall Jarrell)

What Miss Moore's best poetry does, I can say best in her words: it "comes into and steadies the soul,” so that the reader feels himself "a life prisoner, but reconciled.”.

Randall Jarrell

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