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Mentors: Jeffrey Kindley on Marianne Moore
JEFFREY KINDLEY
on dining out with Marianne Moore in the early sixties.Apple © Jacqueline Gnott
From a series originally published on our blog [click here], curated by C.P. Heiser.
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I was watching a new friend make cocoa in her kitchen. She boiled water while the chocolate was melting on a separate burner, poured the water into two teacups and allowed them to sit while the milk began to simmer in another pan.
“Elizabeth is wonderful but she gets carried away,” she said. “She tries too hard to describe the wart on the chin for accuracy, don’t you think?”
She emptied the water from the warmed teacups, then poured the milk and melted chocolate into the cups with extreme care and stirred them together. The cocoa was the best I had ever tasted. It was 1964. My new friend was Marianne Moore, then 76. “Elizabeth” was Elizabeth Bishop. I was a college freshman.
(Source: lareviewofbooks)
