x��X�n�6��+��4Ż���9�i'�71`ȅ�f%�����͇�{����v]#�$J��7o���������^��t�����xv���K���?8*� �����|�ۃ'��ke-ӥs�??������/_��tΕ���q���_���?ٔ���m�������? Carlisle at that time had two opera houses, two daily newspapers, and a railroad station. The card to Moore is postmarked Nagasaki, Japan, where Thorpe was on a world tour with the New York Giants. ...” The last poem of the three, “The Hero,” ends with a “Negro” pointing out George and Martha Washington’s tombs. In an essay, Lesley Wheeler and Chris Gavaler make the interesting argument that Moore’s poetic self-concealment and changeability, especially in her animal poems, reflect her Indian Industrial School tenure. But the very impulse to put together coastal Maine and metropolitan New York—that seems Carlisle-nurtured. Why Marianne Moore looked east for inspiration. Pratt fought for the Union in the Civil War and for the United States in the Indian wars before deciding that his true vocation was educating Native American youth in the ways of white America. A student in Moore’s department organized the petition requesting the investigation, which 276 students signed. Congress found financial corruption and mismanagement as well as incidents of wrongful expulsion and physical harm. Certainly, Moore continued to want to justify the work of men like Pratt. The volume included poems from Observations as well as pieces that had been published between 1932 and 1934. That mystery, in the original version, retains some challenge. Thorpe was just beginning a troubled post-Carlisle career. “Pop” Warner, a coach famous for experimenting with tactics just shy of cheating (the “hidden-ball” play) whose practices with ticket revenues were not always scrupulous (he was also dismissed in the federal investigation), knew how to design a schedule and promote his team. Jacqueline Fear-Segal, a professor of American history and culture, reports that Pratt tried to send seriously ill students home to avoid scrutiny of the school’s high mortality rate. I had neglected “Rigorists” (1940), a poem that describes how reindeer prevented the “extinction / of the Esquimaux.” Above all, I had missed, among the “Part Of …” assemblage, the way Moore’s experience in the Carlisle Indian Industrial School might infuse the perpetually overlooked middle poem, “The Student.” Reading Moore in and after 2016 means questioning the urban-rural divide, perhaps. But she in fact scrutinizes elitism. The Carlisle Barracks were established because Carlisle was a good place from which to venture out in the French and Indian War, later a good place to train 19th-century cavalry who would kill Native Americans and take their land. Her brother advised her not to say anything definitive or particular. <>>>/Contents 2 0 R/Parent 3 0 R>> A Dickinson College initiative digitizes archives for further access and study. But I had missed so much—forgotten so much—I began to realize on my late-November visit to the Native American cemetery. Or we are deluded enough to think we might graduate from the need? Moore’s prose works include A Marianne Moore Reader (1961), Predilections (1955), and The Complete Prose of Marianne Moore (1987). She also edited out the football. If it is not the tree of knowledge, it’s the tree of life. I hadn’t been. “Rigorists,” her reindeer poem, wants to extol another educator, also bent on suppressing Native American languages and culture in the name of a “civilizing” goal, because of his efforts to import reindeer that Native Alaskans could use. A8�|r�Rmw���S� Moore’s honors and awards included the Poetry Society of America's Gold Medal for Distinguished Development, the National Medal for Literature, and an honorary doctorate from Harvard University. (N��q42�#E����h�]���)զ�L�آ���KpG@���J��0D��'m���χK����`!ܢ�m���7�a I noted that Moore (1887-1972) spent her formative years in Carlisle, Pennsylvania: From 1896 to 1918, that is, from ages nine to thirty-one, she lived, studied, and taught in Carlisle. Moore did not protest. Moore’s poems know the frontier. A selection of poets, poems, and articles exploring the Native American experience. Part of a Novel, Part of a Poem, Part of a Play. (I am indebted to all this work.). When she biked to classes and study halls and supervisory duties from her house on Hanover Street, she was, to use her own word from a later interview, “soldiering.” She mostly hated the job. Reading Moore’s work now means reading the history of the places in which she taught, lessons to keep learning and relearning. She died in 1972 in New York City.