10 Questions for Marianne BoruchAre they pigeons? cummings thing then too; I loved his playfulness and see now why he was best friends with Marianne Moore, also an inventor. The natural world really means to me, full stop. My 12th book of poems in which these two MR poems will be a part—if the book is published. Boruch went rogue and emeritus in 2018 after teaching at Purdue for thirty-three years and establishing its MFA program.