Donald Davie (essay date 1981)
SOURCE: Davie, Donald. “Lyric Minimum & Epic Scope: Lorine Niedecker.” PN Review 8, no. 5 (1981): 31-33.
[In the following essay, Davie discusses the use of Great Lakes history in Niedecker's poetry, as well as Niedecker's use of grammar structure and prose.]
Lorine Niedecker's ‘Lake Superior’, as it appeared in her sumptuously printed North Central (Fulcrum Press, 1968), consists of twelve short or very short passages of verse. Accordingly it can be quoted in full:
In every part of every...
Source: Poetry Criticism, ©2003 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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