Lake Superior
Description:
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
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
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