Douglas Crase (essay date 1992)
SOURCE: Crase, Douglas. “On Lorine Niedecker.” Raritan 12, no. 2 (fall 1992): 47-70.
[In the following essay, Crase discusses Niedecker's “Lake Superior”.]
Poetry is words: though when I think of the Whitman who found he incorporates gneiss, the Stein who says anybody is as their land and air is, the Stevens who locates mythology in stone out of our fields or from under our mountains, then I have to admit that the sublimest American poetry has always read to me as if it hoped to restore, or even realize its...
Source: Poetry Criticism, ©2003 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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