Radical vernacular : Lorine Niedecker and the poetics of place / edited by Elizabeth Willis.

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. This pathbreaking volume contains essays by seventeen leading scholars: Rae Armantrout, Glenna Breslin, Michael Davidso...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Willis, Elizabeth
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2008.
Series:Contemporary North American poetry series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Life by water: Lorine Niedecker and critical regionalism / Michael Davidson
  • Niedecker's grammar of flooding / Mary Pinard
  • Life pops from a music box shaped like a gun: dismemberments and mendings in Niedecker's figures / Eleni Sikelianos
  • Particular attention: Lorine Niedecker's natural histories / Jonathan Skinner
  • Writing Lake Superior / Jenny Penberthy
  • In phonographic deep song: sounding Niedecker / Lisa Robertson
  • How to do things with nothing: Lorine Niedecker sings the blues / Patrick Pritchett
  • Darkinfested / Rae Armantrout
  • Music becomes story: lyric and narrative patterning in the work of Lorine Niedecker / Elizabeth Robinson
  • Waking into ideology: Lorine Niedecker's experiments in the syntax of consciousness / Ruth Jennison
  • Lorine Niedecker's "Paean to place" and its reflective fusions / Rachel Blau Duplessis
  • Niedecker and company
  • Niedecker/Reznikoff / Eliot Weinberger
  • Lorine Niedecker: the poet in her homeplace / Glenna Breslin
  • Who is sounding? Awakened view, gaps, silence, cage, Niedecker / Anne Waldman
  • The poetics of affinity: Niedecker, Morris, and the art of work / Elizabeth Willis
  • The British Niedecker / Peter Middleton
  • Take oil/and hum: Neidecker/Bunting / Peter Quartermann.