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.
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Lorine Niedecker was born in 1903 and died in 1970. Among her published work is NEW GOOSE (1946), My Friend Tree (1961), North Central (1968), T&G: Collected Poems, 1936-1966 (1969), My Life by Water: Collected Poems, 1936-1968 (1970), Blue Chicory (1976), From This Condensery (1985), and THE GRANITE PAIL (1985).
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This review is from: The Granite Pail: The Selected Poems of Lorine Niedecker (Works By One Author) (Paperback)
It still amazes me that more people who love poetry don't know about the revolutionary, elegant, deceptively simple, simply deceptive, American work of Lorine Niedecker, a quasi-member of the Objectivist movement and a unqiue and solitary figure. A woman writer invested in so many American traditions -- Emily Dickinson's hermetic sensibility, William Carlos Williams' love of the ordinary -- Niedecker is truly one of the great poets of the century. I don't think you'll regret buying this book -- though you'll probably end up complaining, as I do daily, about the lack of a Collected Poems as yet in print.
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The quiet storm,
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This is a GREAT book. She lived quietly out in the midwest somewhere, had a media-free, you-might-say-humdrum, but real and normal life, but quietly chiselled TRUTH into her poetry, maybe it should be truth with a small t, because it is all so personal, humble, but above all genuine, so that eventually it is heavy with something. I have loved and returned to her poetry for close to 20 years now, its anti-histrionic quality bringing me home the simple fact of my own being, my fragility in time and my singularity. One of those great women, like Frida Kahlo and Diane Arbus, who made a dent in my being.
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Subtle beauty, American haiku,
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This intriguing collection of poems has more depth, subtlety and grace than you might expect from a 20th century American poet from Wisconsin. Niedecker is an astute observer of her surroundings, often remembering the ponds and rivers of her youth and early adulthood. These short poems are not small in depth, only in word count, often containing the grace and complexity of haiku with image juxtapositions conveying multiple meanings.
Wonderful, easy to read works that will linger long in memory. Highly recommended.
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