Lorine Niedecker: A Poet's Life

by Margot Peters

Book Overview

Lorine Niedecker (1903-70) was a poet of extraordinary talent whose life and work were long enveloped in obscurity. After her death in 1970, poet Basil Bunting wrote that she was "the most interesting woman poet America has yet produced . . . only beginning to be appreciated when she died." Her poverty and arduous family life, the isolated home in Wisconsin that provided rich imagery for her work, and her unusual acquaintances have all contributed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299285006
• ISBN13: 9780299285005
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"