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America's Greatest Unknown Poet: Lorine Niedecker Reminiscences, Photographs, Letters and Her Most Memorable Poems

America's Greatest Unknown Poet: Lorine Niedecker Reminiscences, Photographs, Letters and Her Most Memorable Poems
By John Lehman

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The relationship between writing and living is explored in this collection of letters, poems, photographs, and reminiscences from people who knew Lorine Niedecker personally. Niedecker's acclaimed poems are distinguished by a fierce style that earned her work comparison to that of Emily Dickinson and William Carlos Williams. Revelations about her roles as the daughter of a Wisconsin carp fisherman and as a hospital cleaning woman offer insight into how Niedecker became a quintessential poet of place. Critical questions are discussed about the creative process reflected in Niedecker's writings, including What can we achieve through writing? How are we affected by where we live? and Who inspires us?

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #1356249 in Books
  • Published on: 2004-09-28
  • Original language: English
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 104 pages

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"By combining the voices of those who knew Niedecker during her lifetime with her most memorable poems, excerpts from her letters, and his own close reading of her poetry, Lehman succeeds miraculously in resurrecting the heart and soul of an unjustly neglected literary artist." --Bob Wake, "The Cambridge Book Review

About the Author

John Lehman is the founder of Rosebud magazine and the poetry editor of the Wisconsin Academy Review. He is the author of the poetry collections Dogs Dream of Running and Shorts. He is a regular instructor at the Loft in Minnesota and the Clearing in Wisconsin. He lives in Cambridge, Wisconsin.

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Lorine Niedecker: an Emily Dickenson for the 21st Century5
John Lehman's book illuminates Lorine for you: her life, her friends, her loves, her work... I'd never heard of Lorine Niedecker. I knew Pound, Joyce, Eliot, Ginsberg, Woolf, Plath, Williams, etc. But no Niedecker.

Niedecker: five line poems that shine. Not a word wasted. Less is more. The poems: funny, sad, filled with birds, trees, Thomas Jefferson, and water near by. She can illuminate life with five lines. Life's bits of knowledge learned from the Great Depression or as a cleaning woman in a hospital or historical research...

Some family and friends didn't even know she wrote. Now we all know. So thanks to John Lehman for shouting in the desert about America's Greatest Unknown Poet: Lorine Niedecker. Read Niedecker: Collected Works.