"The Brontës had their moors, I have my marshes," Lorine Niedecker wrote of flood-prone Black Hawk Island in Wisconsin, where she lived most of her life. Her life by water, as she called it, could not have been further removed from the avant-garde poetry scene where she also made a home. Niedecker is one of the most important poets of her generation and an essential member of the Objectivist circle. Her work attracted high praise from her peers--Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, Louis Zukofsky, Cid Corman, Clayton Eshleman--with whom she exchanged life-sustaining letters. Niedecker was also a major woman poet who interrogated issues of gender, domesticity, work, marriage, and sexual politics long before the modern feminist movement. Her marginal status, both geographically and as a woman, translates into a major poetry. Niedecker's lyric voice is one of the most subtle and sensuous of the twentieth century. Her ear is constantly alive to sounds of nature, oddities of vernacular speech, textures of vowels and consonants. Often compared to Emily Dickinson, Niedecker writes a poetry of wit and emotion, cosmopolitan experimentation and down-home American speech. This much-anticipated volume presents all of Niedecker's surviving poetry, plays, and creative prose in the sequence of their composition. It includes many poems previously unpublished in book form plus all of Niedecker's surviving 1930s surrealist work and her 1936-46 folk poetry, bringing to light the formative experimental phases of her early career. With an introduction that offers an account of the poet's life and notes that provide detailed textual information, this book will be the definitive reader's and scholar's edition of Niedecker's work.

Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works

NIEDECKER, Lorine

Penberthy, Jenny

Biographies & Memoirs

University of California Press

North Central

Fulcrum Press

The Granite Pail: Selected Poems of Lorine Niedecker

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

North Point Pr

Poetry. Edited by Cid Corman. The section headings in this book of poems are all vintage Niedecker, but they stake out the poems in three large masses. The earlier work-apprentice to Zukofsky but finding her voice; the central work—when she discovers her range and depth; the final work—much of it known posthumously—showing how she was probing other voices into a larger plenum. "One's first impulse, after awe, on reading THE GRANITE PAIL is a double dose of shame: shame at not being more familiar with her work; shame at ever having complained of the narrowness of one's life"—Carolyn Kizer.

The Granite Pail: The Selected Poems of Lorine Niedecker (Works by One Author)

Gnomon Press

Poetry. This book collects the 86 poems that survive from the Mother Goose-influenced period of Lorine Neidecker: 1935 to 1945. The NEW GOOSE poems share the anti-authoritarian, subversive bent of their models, reflecting on the politics and economics of the time: the Depression, free market economics, socialism, and war. A key figure in the "Objectivist" poetry movement, Neidecker's poetic influence continues to be strongly felt. Her GRANITE PAIL, first published in 1985, is an SPD bestseller. "My man says the wind blows from the South,/ we go out fishing, he has no luck,/ I catch a dozen, that burns him up,/ I face the east and the wind's in my mouth,/ but my man has to have it in the south" -- from NEW GOOSE.

New Goose

Rumor Books/Listening Chamber

Lake Superior is a compilation of writings around Lorine Niedecker's poem of the same titlestrata that inform the poem's ecological and historical resonance. Lorine Niedecker was a major American poet often connected with the Objectivists. She lived in Wisconsin from 1903 to 1970. From "Lake Superior Country": Every bit of you is a bit of the earth . . . Sohere we go. Maybe as rocks and I pass each other I could say how-do-you-do to an agate. "Niedecker [is] one of the most important and original poets of this past century."August Kleinzahler, London Review of Books Table of Contents: Lake Superior” by Lorine Niedecker Lake Superior Country, a journal by Lorine Niedecker Niedecker and the Evolutional Sublime” by Douglas Crase Three Letters from Lorine Niedecker to Cid Corman Excerpt from Back Roads to Far Towns by Basho and trans. by Cid Corman Tour 14A” from Wisconsin, A Guide to the Badger State On a Monument to the Pigeon” by Aldo Leopold Excerpt from the writings of Pierre Esprit Radisson Excerpt from the writings of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

Lake Superior

United States

Wave Books

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