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radical vernacular lorine niedecker and the poetics of place
when lorine niedecker died in 1970 the british poet and critic basil bunting eulogized her warmly . in england he wrote she was in the estimation of many the most interesting woman poet america has yet produced . br 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 . br this pathbreaking volume contains essays by seventeen leading scholars rae armantrout glenna breslin michael davidson rachel blau duplessis ruth jennison peter middleton jenny penberthy mary pinard patrick pritchett peter quartermain lisa robertson elizabeth robinson eleni sikelianos jonathan skinner anne waldman eliot weinberger and elizabeth willis . br
hardcover university of iowa press 2008 isbn13 9781587296987 isbn10 1587296985
abridged n isbn 13 9781587296987 number in series 1 number of pages 307 publisher univ of iowa pr release date 62135769600000