Dec 4, 2008
The Granite Pail: The Selected Poems of Lorine Niedecker, edited by Cid Corman, presents an intriguing, if somewhat familiar, picture of Niedecker as a highly autobiographical poet whose primary concern is that which occurs in the domestic realm. Much of the work in this text focuses on the experiences of a female poet living on Blackhawk Island in rural Wisconsin; it tends to be devoid of the political concerns that critic Jenny Penberthy has argued are the source of many of Niedecker’s lesser-known poems. The poet whom Corman reveals understands the...
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