Real Irish New York by Dermot McEvoy

Author:Dermot McEvoy
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781510736498
Publisher: Skyhorse
Published: 2020-03-02T16:00:00+00:00

THE PERFECT EPITAPH

In late 1965, she moved from Brooklyn back to the Village, taking an apartment on the seventh floor of 35 West Ninth Street, only a few blocks from Washington Square Park. The move did not prohibit her celebrity. “She earned $5,000 for appearing in Braniff Airways historic ‘When you got it, flaunt it’ advertising campaign,” wrote Leavell, “that paired unlikely celebrities such as Andy Warhol and Sonny Listen in adjacent airline seats. Warhol explains the significance of soup cans to Liston, and pulp fiction author Mickey Spillane explains the power of words to Marianne. ‘Tough Mickey Spillane and gentle Marianne Moore always fly Braniff,’ said the voice over.”

A Moore protégé, poet Elizabeth Bishop, also experienced a trifecta triumph, winning the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her whimsical poem “Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore” captures the spirit of the poet:

From Brooklyn, over the Brooklyn Bridge, on this fine morning,

please come flying . . . Please come flying . . .

Moore died on February 5, 1972 at the age of eighty-four. Outside her Ninth Street apartment building there is a simple, but terrific plaque. In twenty-one simple words and numbers they summed up the superb life of Marianne Moore:

35 West 9th Street/Last Home of

MARIANNE MOORE

(1887–1972)

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet, Baseball Enthusiast

And Lifelong New Yorker

It was the perfect epitaph for a special Irish New York poet.

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