Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works
Lorine Niedecker lived most of her life near the water in rural Wisconsin and wrote some of the most concentrated poetry in American literature, stripping language down to a few exact words. Long overlooked, she is now seen as a major figure, and this volume gathers her complete poems and related work. Bill Murray read her short poem Poet's Work aloud to construction workers building the home of Poets House, a fitting choice for a writer who treated poetry as plain, serious labor. Her poems reward slow, careful reading, finding depth in the smallest images of nature, family, and time.
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The complete poems of Lorine Niedecker, a quietly radical American poet who wrote spare, exact verse from rural Wisconsin.
Bill Murray read her short poem Poet's Work aloud at the construction site of the new Poets House building in New York.
Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works was written by Lorine Niedecker, published in 2002 by University of California Press.
Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works is 471 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works takes most readers 7 to 10 hours to finish.
Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.