![]() Moore maintained her internal consistency. In fact, she had dismissed her Father’s chromosome that made her female, and consistently referred to herself as male, and gave herself (and was given) a male pronoun in correspondence with her brother and mother (4). She would never lose her balance, like her Father. Moore worked hard lest anyone doubt she was a woman of integrity. Her invisible Father’s shadow and her station in life was ever present. ![]() “So I smile, (as if I had found a penny) when people tell me how they like them (poems) and talk about writing poetry and so on as if it were gymnastics or piano practice” (Costello 63). Moore, like everyone, needed help in dealing with her own struggles, and she found acceptance in society from her wit of words at an early age. Her relative good health and longevity may be a partial testament to the healing power of this approach. This parallel reality she lived in through her study of Chinese Nature artifacts, and in her poetry by analyzing it, kept Nature near and alive in her thoughts. Moore lived most of her life in urban New York. As anyone knows who has lived in an urban environment, the city has toxic affects on the human body. She did not embrace the Judeo-Christian idea of “man’s dominion over Nature” found canonized in the book of Genesis. ![]() Moore treated Nature with respect in her poems about the jerboa, the basilisk, the jelly-fish, the elephant, and so forth. ![]() Moore found the Chinese recognition of how the individual should function in perfect harmony with landscape and animals defensible and “illuminating” (Qian 174). Knowledge of the material sort is the direct result of a science that utilizes close observation, but Western science does not even try to answer that forever question: why are we here? Dao gave artists then and now a path to experience peace and explore that question in a useful, productive way, a way that creates breathable art, a pictorial representation of this invisible relationship between consciousness and flesh. Modernist leaning writers like Moore, who searched for meaning, not only to survive, but to live a life of inspired imagination, found passion and joy in this thinking. Only if the details are drawn in this way (a communion with Nature from direct observation) will the results be lasting. ![]()
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