O to Be a Dragon

O to Be a Dragon is a 1959 poetry collection by the American poet Marianne Moore, and the title of the collection's eponymous poem. It was published by Viking Press in New York City.^[1]

It was not initially published by Faber and Faber in England as Faber's editor TS Eliot considered it too short, but it was later combined with four extra poems and a collection that had not previously appeared in the United Kingdom, and issued as The Arctic fox in 1964.^[2]

TIME magazine's review of O to Be a Dragon included directions to Moore's apartment which led to her being in her own words "obliterated by trespassers..I might say thugs! Letters upon letters also."^[3]

Poems

"O to Be a Dragon"
"I May, I Might, I Must"
"To a Chameleon"
"A Jelly-Fish"
"Values in Use"
"Hometown Piece for Messrs. Alton and Reese"
"Enough: Jamestown, 1607-1957"
"Melchior Vulpis"
"No Better Than a "Withered Daffodil""
"In the Public Garden"
"The Arctic Ox (or Goat)"
"Saint Nicholas"
"For February 14th"
"Combat Cultural"
"Leonardo da Vinci's"

References

^ Lawrence Rainey (15 July 2005). Modernism: An Anthology. John Wiley & Sons. p. 1160. ISBN 978-0-631-20448-0.
^ Darlene Williams Erickson (1992). Illusion and More Precise Then Precision: The Poetry of Marianne Moore. University of Alabama Press. p. 240. ISBN 978-0-8173-0570-3.
^ Linda Leavell (5 November 2013). Holding On Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore. Faber & Faber. p. 363. ISBN 978-0-571-30183-6.

[Rainey2005-1] Lawrence Rainey (15 July 2005). Modernism: An Anthology. John Wiley & Sons. p. 1160. ISBN 978-0-631-20448-0.

[Erickson1992-2] Darlene Williams Erickson (1992). Illusion and More Precise Then Precision: The Poetry of Marianne Moore. University of Alabama Press. p. 240. ISBN 978-0-8173-0570-3.

[Leavell2013-3] Linda Leavell (5 November 2013). Holding On Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore. Faber & Faber. p. 363. ISBN 978-0-571-30183-6.

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