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Our Revolution
A Mother and Daughter at Midcentury
by Honor Moore
464 Pages, Published 2020
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-08005-6, ISBN: 0-393-08005-6






The Bishop's Daughter(1st Edition)
A Memoir
by Honor Moore
Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2009 by W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-33536-1, ISBN: 0-393-33536-4

"“An eloquent argument for speaking even the most difficult truths.” —New York Times Book ReviewPaul Moore’s vocation as an Episcopal priest took him— with his wife, Jenny, and their family of nine children—from robber-baron wealth to work among the urban poor, leadership in the civil rights and peace movements, and two decades as the bishop of New York. The Bishop’s Daughter is his daughter’s story of that complex, visionary man ..."






The White Blackbird
A Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by Her Granddaughter
by Honor Moore
Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2009 by W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-33611-5, ISBN: 0-393-33611-5

"Alexander Z. Kruse, “Luks Still Lives in His Work, Wit and Wisdom,” Greenwich Villager, February 1934, p. 12. 118. “Gutzon Borglum critiquing”: Such a drawing, included in an inventory of Margarett Sargent McKean's collection made in 1966, is now apparently lost. 119. “I should have been shocked”: Author interview with MW. 119. “To hell with ”: Quoted in Dame, “Mrs. McKean . . .” 119. “Spontaneity and freedom ": McKean, “George Luk ..."






Darling(1st Edition)
Poems
by Honor Moore
Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2001 by Grove Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-3856-9, ISBN: 0-8021-3856-X

"The second collection from the poet Honor Moore, Darling is the kind of poetry that refuses to stay quiet, full of moments so gorgeous and brave you can't resist their power. From the very first pages, there is an inescapable intensity. Hard and melodic, chilly with loss and burning with sensual heat, Moore's words have a profound veracity as she takes on subjects such as longing, death, and sexual desire with a deeply passionate consci ..."






The Stray Dog Cabaret
A Book of Russian Poems (New York Review Books Classics)
by Paul Schmidt, Honor Moore, Catherine Ciepiela, Nyrb Classics, Brodi︠a︡chai︠a︡ Sobaka
Paperback, 168 Pages, Published 2006 by Nyrb Classics
ISBN-13: 978-1-59017-191-2, ISBN: 1-59017-191-8

"A New York Review Books OriginalA master anthology of Russia’s most important poetry, newly collected and never before published in EnglishIn the years before the 1917 Russian Revolution, the Stray Dog cabaret in St. Petersburg was the haunt of poets, artists, and musicians, a place to meet, drink, read, brawl, celebrate, and stage performances of all kinds. It has since become a symbol of the extraordinary literary ferment of that time ..."






The Bishop's Daughter(1st Edition)
A Memoir
by Honor Moore, The Bishop's Daughter
Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2008 by W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-05984-7, ISBN: 0-393-05984-7

""An unsparing portrait of a glamorous but elusive father and his daughter's search for the truth about his secret life."―Sylvia Nasar Paul Moore's vocation as an Episcopal priest took him―with his wife Jenny and a family that grew to nine children―from robber-baron wealth to work among the urban poor of postwar America, prominence as an activist bishop in Washington during the Johnson years, leadership in the civil rights and peace move ..."






Poems from the Women's Movement(1st Edition)
(American Poets Project #28)
by Honor Moore
Hardcover, 200 Pages, Published 2009 by Library Of America
ISBN-13: 978-1-59853-042-1, ISBN: 1-59853-042-9

"“In 1965, Sylvia Plath’s posthumous Ariel took the literary world by storm with its fierce and undeniably female voice. For the next 15 years, America saw a historic outpouring of women’s poetry supported by and supporting the women’s movement. As editor Moore points out, poetry was vital to the movement, articulating previously unexpressed lives, empowering others as the poets found their own power. . . . And all who missed these missi ..."






Great Granny Webster(Reprint)
(New York Review Books Classics)
by Caroline Blackwood, Honor Moore
Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2002 by Nyrb Classics
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-1-59017-007-6, ISBN: 1-59017-007-5

"Great Granny Webster is Caroline Blackwood’s masterpiece. Heiress to the Guinness fortune, Blackwood was celebrated as a great beauty and dazzling raconteur long before she made her name as a strikingly original writer. This macabre, mordantly funny, partly auto-biographical novel reveals the gothic craziness behind the scenes in the great houses of the aristocracy, as witnessed through the unsparing eyes of an orphaned teenage gi ..."






Red Shoes
Poems
by Honor Moore
Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2006 by W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-32910-0, ISBN: 0-393-32910-0

"Sexy, telegraphic, edgy, and rapt. .Exquisitely visual, cuttingly witty, Moore's poems are at once cool and searing.- Booklist In her third collection, Honor Moore returns to the charged territory of her earlier poems. Here, erotic and almost surreal lyrics, dreamlike meditations, and a sequence of elegies create what Jorie Graham calls a searing exploration of exposure- as the concept impacts all stages of human life and also death."






Through The Glass Ceiling
(Hardback)
by Honor Moore Muller
Hardcover, 150 Pages, Published 2020 by Park Place Publications, United States
ISBN-13: 978-1-943887-99-6, ISBN: 1-943887-99-3

"The memoirs of Honor Muller, who advanced quickly through the ranks to become the first woman executive of PG&E."






Memoir(2nd Edition)
Poems
by Honor Moore
Paperback, 79 Pages, Published 1988 by Chicory Blue Pr
ISBN-13: 978-0-9619111-1-9, ISBN: 0-9619111-1-5

"Twenty-five poems by Honor Moore"






Memoir
by Honor Moore
96 Pages, Published 2019 by Carnegie-Mellon University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-88748-644-9, ISBN: 0-88748-644-4

"Mom, were you waiting? / I have no mother, your mother's gone, and / the you that lives on, me, I must learn she is / enough. From this room I see snow. Snow. Tomorrow is your / birthday. This is for you. The snow is melting."






The Writer on Her Work, Volume I(Reprint)
by Anne Tyler, Joan Gordon, Nancy Milford, Honor Moore, Michele Murrary, Margaret Walker, Susan Griffin, Alice Walker, Ingrid Bengis, Janet Sternberg, Janet Sternburg
Paperback, 286 Pages, Published 1992 by W W Norton & Co Inc
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-00071-9, ISBN: 0-393-00071-0

"Published to high praise -- "groundbreaking . . . a landmark" (Poets & Writers) -- this was the first anthology to celebrate the diversity of women who write. Seventeen novelists, poets, and writers of nonfiction explore how they have become writers, why they write, and what it means to be a woman and a writer."






Our Revolution
A Mother and Daughter at Midcentury
by Honor Moore
432 Pages, Published 2020 by W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-65180-5, ISBN: 0-393-65180-0

"I had not known this, and of course it explained the awkwardness at cocktails that Thanksgiving, and Mrs. Challinor's response to my mother's name. ... David Challinor does not appear in Jenny's life as a serious suitor until 1943, when she  ..."






The Bishop's Daughter
A Memoir
by Honor Moore
384 Pages, Published 2009 by W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-34421-9, ISBN: 0-393-34421-5

"ing about my father's life as an Episcopal priest and bishop. ... Or was it the only avenue available for a man like him? ... I read the letters he wrote to my mother in the early days of their courtship and met many people who credited him with a ..."






The White Blackbird
A Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by Her Granddaughter
by Honor Moore
416 Pages, Published 2009 by W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-34437-0, ISBN: 0-393-34437-1

"I had a contract for this book, and I knew I wanted to look closely at the paintings, so, in exchange for time to catalogue and photograph them, I agreed to pay rent to keep them stored in a fortress-like facility across the street from MIT in Cambridge and, after I'd finished, to distribute them to family members. Diane Gelon, an art historian who at the time was director of operations for the making and first tour of Judy Chicago ..."






The White Blackbird(1st Edition)
A Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by Her Granddaughter
by Honor Moore
Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 1996 by Viking Adult
ISBN-13: 978-0-670-80563-1, ISBN: 0-670-80563-7

"Provides a definitive portrait of artist Margarett Sargent, an icon of avant-garde art during the 1920s who today is mostly unknown, discussing her turbulent personal life, scandalous love affairs, and intense struggle for creative freedom. 12,500 first printing. $15,000 ad/promo."






Red Shoes
Poems
by Honor Moore
96 Pages, Published 2006 by W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-34503-2, ISBN: 0-393-34503-3

"Gnostic: The book about early Christianity: Elaine Pagels, Beyond Belief (2003). Wallace Stevens: “Large Red Man Reading” is the title of a poem by Wallace Stevens. Beauté: Inge Morath's photographs are collected in Inge Morath: Fotografien 1952–1992 (Edition Fotohof im Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg 1992) and elsewhere. Styria: After a photograph by Inge Morath, 2001. Alive: Ingeborg Bachmann (1926–1973), Austrian poet, dramatist, a ..."






Red Shoes
Poems
by Honor Moore
Hardcover, 89 Pages, Published 2005 by W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-05985-4, ISBN: 0-393-05985-5






Open City #18
Winter 2003-2004
by Open City Magazine, Nick Tosches, Eileen Myles, Viggo Mortensen, Honor Moore
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2003 by Grove Press, Open City Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-890447-32-8, ISBN: 1-890447-32-3

"Open City features fiction, poetry, and artwork from a dynamic range of voices -- from established writers such as Michael Cunningham, Irvine Welsh, and Mary Gaitskill, to emerging talents like Sam Lipsyte, Meghan Daum, and David Berman, to classic voices from the past including Delmore Schwartz, Allen Ginsberg, and Richard Yates. Open City features writing and art preoccupied with the forces effecting the character -- physical, intelle ..."



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