Radical vernacular : Lorine Niedecker and the poetics of place / edited by Elizabeth Willis.
Title:
Radical vernacular : Lorine Niedecker and the poetics of place / edited by Elizabeth Willis.
Publication:
Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2008]
Copyright:
©2008
Publication Date:
2008
ISBN:
9781587296987
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Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-294) and index.
Contents:
Natural and political histories. Life by water: Lorine Niedecker and critical regionalism / Michael Davidson -- Niedecker's grammar of flooding / Mary Pinard -- Life pops from a music box shaped like a gun: dismemberments and mendings in Niedecker's figures / Eleni Sikelianos -- Particular attention: Lorine Niedecker's natural histories / Jonathan Skinner -- Writing Lake Superior / Jenny Penberthy -- Sounding process. In phonographic deep song: sounding Niedecker / Lisa Robertson -- How to do things with nothing: Lorine Niedecker sings the blues / Patrick Pritchett -- Darkinfested / Rae Armantrout -- Music becomes story: lyric and narrative patterning in the work of Lorine Niedecker / Elizabeth Robinson -- Waking into ideology: Lorine Niedecker's experiments in the syntax of consciousness / Ruth Jennison -- Lorine Niedecker's "Paean to place" and its reflective fusions / Rachel Blau Duplessis -- Niedecker and company. Niedecker/Reznikoff / Eliot Weinberger -- Lorine Niedecker: the poet in her homeplace / Glenna Breslin -- Who is sounding? Awakened view, gaps, silence, Cage, Niedecker / Anne Waldman -- The poetics of affinity: Niedecker, Morris, and the art of work / Elizabeth Willis -- The British Niedecker / Peter Middleton -- Take oil/and hum: Neidecker/Bunting / Peter Quartermain.
Abstract:
"Aesthetically linked with the New York Objectivist poets, Niedecker remained committed to her community in rural Wisconsin despite the grinding poverty that dogged her throughout her life. Largely self-taught, Niedecker formed attachments through her voracious reading and correspondence, but she also delighted in the disruptive richness of vernacular usage and in the homegrown, improvisational aesthetics that thrived within her immediate world. Niedecker wrote from a highly attenuated concern with biological, cultural, and political sustainability and, in her stridently modernist poems, anticipated many of the most urgent concerns in twenty-first-century poetics. In Radical Vernacular, Elizabeth Willis collects essays by leading poets and scholars that make a major contribution to the study of an important but long overlooked American poet."--Jacket.
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text
Carrier Type:
volume
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Language:
English
