The White Blackbird: A Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by Her Granddaughter

Provides a portrait of artist Margarett Sargent, an icon of avant-garde art during the 1920s, discussing her turbulent personal life

Moore, Honor

Arts & Photography

Penguin??Books

"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 movements, and two decades as the bishop of New York. The Bishop's Daughter is a daughter's story of that complex, visionary man: a chronicle of her turbulent relationship with a father who struggled privately with his sexuality while she openly explored hers, and a searching account of the consequences of sexual secrets. With a depth of questioning that recalls James Carroll's An American Requiem, this memoir engages the reader in the great issues of American life: war, race, family, sexuality, and faith.

The Bishop's Daughter: A Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

W.W.Norton&Company

A third collection by the author of Darling returns readers to the terrain of earlier works and features the writer's erotic and surreal lyrics, dreamlike meditations, and sequence of elegies, in a volume that evinces an unfolding story told through interlinked, recurring images.

Red Shoes

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

A daughter’s memoir of her mother evolves beautifully into a narrative of the far-reaching changes in women’s lives in the twentieth century.
With the sweep of an epic novel, Our Revolution follows Jenny Moore, a charismatic and brilliant woman whose life changed as she became engaged in the great twentieth-century movements for peace and social justice. Born into Boston society in 1923 and the first woman in her family to go to college, she set aside writing ambitions to marry Paul Moore, a decorated war hero who became Bishop Paul Moore. Together they had nine children―"I wanted a baseball team," Jenny said, "or a small orchestra."
Rejecting a conventional path, the Moores moved to an inner-city parish in Jersey City and began their family while collaborating on a socially radical, multiracial ministry. In 1968, Jenny published her first book. "Everything was just starting," she protested―meaning an independent life inspired in part by the new feminist movement―when she was diagnosed with cancer at fifty.
Jenny bequeathed to her eldest daughter, Honor, then a twenty-seven-year-old poet, her unfinished writing. As Honor pursued her own career as a writer, she was haunted by her mother’s bequest. Decades later, she delves into Jenny’s pages and forges a new relationship with the passionate seeker and truth teller she finds there. Our Revolution is a vivid, absorbing account of two women navigating the twentieth century and a daughter’s story of the mother who shaped her life as an artist and a woman. 9 illustrations

Our Revolution: A Mother and Daughter at Midcentury

Community & Culture

“Sexy, telegraphic, edgy, and rapt. . . . Exquisitely visual, cuttingly witty, Moore’s poems are at once cool and searing.”―Booklist

Red Shoes: Poems

“An eloquent argument for speaking even the most difficult truths.” ―New York Times Book Review Paul 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: a chronicle of her turbulent relationship with a father who struggled privately with his sexuality while she openly explored hers and a searching account of the consequences of sexual secrets.22 photos

Leaders & Notable People

“A striking portrait of a woman artist’s struggle for life.” ―Arthur Miller Margarett Sargent was an icon of avant-garde art in the 1920s. In an evocative weave of biography and memoir, her granddaughter unearths for the first time the life of a spirited and gifted woman committed at all costs to self-expression.37 illustrations

Arts & Literature

With the sweep of an epic novel, Our Revolution follows charismatic and brilliant Jenny Moore, whose life changed as she became engaged in movements for peace and social justice. Decades after Jenny's early death, acclaimed poet and memoirist Honor Moore forges a new relationship with the seeker and truth teller she finds in her mother's writing. Our Revolution is a daughter's vivid, absorbing account of the mother who shaped her life as an artist and a woman, "beautifully recorded, documented, and envisioned as feminist art and American history" (Margo Jefferson).

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.

Viking Adult

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 consciousness. Every poem in Darling is radiant with glassy precision. A woman's hair is the color of raw wood, a dead friend is remembered by how he placed objects in a room, two lovers "fall together like answers." Hers are effortless metaphors that pull at your breath, and her ease in conjuring them is simply stunning. Moore's poems always generate excitement, appearing in dozens of publications, including The Paris Review, Ploughshares, Open City, Conjunctions, and American Poetry Review.

Darling: Poems

Contemporary

GROVE PRESS

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The White Blackbird: A Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by Her Granddaughter

The Bishop's Daughter: A Memoir

Red Shoes

Our Revolution: A Mother and Daughter at Midcentury

Red Shoes: Poems

The Bishop's Daughter: A Memoir

The White Blackbird: A Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by Her Granddaughter

Our Revolution: A Mother and Daughter at Midcentury

The White Blackbird: A Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by Her Granddaughter

Darling: Poems