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larryhammerPoetry Monday:
Poet's Work, Lorine Niedecker
Grandfather
advised me:
Learn a trade
I learned
to sit at desk
and condense
No layoff
from this
condensery
Niedecker (1903–1970) was born in southern Wisconsin, and aside from a brief stint in New York in the 1930s lived there all her life. Her spare, condensed poetry received little attention until near the end of her life, but she is now regarded as an important modernist.
---L.
Subject quote from Rowing Song, Patty Griffin.
Poet's Work, Lorine Niedecker
Grandfather
advised me:
Learn a trade
I learned
to sit at desk
and condense
No layoff
from this
condensery
Niedecker (1903–1970) was born in southern Wisconsin, and aside from a brief stint in New York in the 1930s lived there all her life. Her spare, condensed poetry received little attention until near the end of her life, but she is now regarded as an important modernist.
---L.
Subject quote from Rowing Song, Patty Griffin.