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Lake Superior is a compilation of writings around Lorine Niedecker's poem of the same title—strata 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 . . .
So—here 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 . . .
So—here 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
Price: $16.00
Pages: 112
Publisher: Wave Books
Imprint: Wave Books
Publication Date:
02 April 2013
Trim Size: 9.50 X 6.50 in
ISBN: 9781933517667
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
Lorine Niedecker was born in Wisconsin in 1903 and lived there until her death in 1970. She was a major American poet often connected with the Objectivists. 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). Niedecker's Collected Works was published by the University of California Press in 2004.
Contents
"Lake Superior", Lorine Niedecker
Lake Superior Country, a journal; Lorine Niedecker
Niedecker and the Evolutional Sublime; Douglas Crase
Three Letters from Lorine Niedecker to Cid Corman
excerpt from Back Roads to Far Towns; Basho / trans. Cid Corman
Tour 14A from Wisconsin, A Guide to the Badger State
On a Monument to the Pigeon; Aldo Leopold
from the writings of Pierre Esprit Raddison
from the writings of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
"Lake Superior", Lorine Niedecker
Lake Superior Country, a journal; Lorine Niedecker
Niedecker and the Evolutional Sublime; Douglas Crase
Three Letters from Lorine Niedecker to Cid Corman
excerpt from Back Roads to Far Towns; Basho / trans. Cid Corman
Tour 14A from Wisconsin, A Guide to the Badger State
On a Monument to the Pigeon; Aldo Leopold
from the writings of Pierre Esprit Raddison
from the writings of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft