Great Regulars: To tease her admirers and critics--

or to complicate their responses even further--[Marianne] Moore had it both ways by including the longer poem as a kind of endnote to the three-liner. She published the full, 1924 version (reprinted below), the one preferred by many of her admirers and later editors, in the back matter of that same 1967 Complete Poems with the laconic heading "Original Version." In various ways, the two incarnations of the poem annotate, challenge, and criticize one another. I think they amusingly challenge and criticize us readers, too.

from Robert Pinsky: Slate: Marianne Moore's "Poetry"

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