×
Uh-oh, it looks like your Internet Explorer is out of date.
For a better shopping experience, please upgrade now.

Radical Vernacular: Lorine Niedecker and the Poetics of Place
334
by Elizabeth WillisElizabeth Willis
NOOK Book(eBook)
Available on Compatible NOOK Devices and the free NOOK Apps.
WANT A NOOK?
Explore Now
LEND ME®
See Details
35.0
In Stock
Overview
When Lorine Niedecker died in 1970, the British poet and critic Basil Bunting eulogized her warmly. “In England,” he wrote, “she was, in the estimation of many, the most interesting woman poet America has yet produced.”
Aesthetically linked with the New York Objectivist poets, Niedecker remained committed to her community in rural Wisconsin despite the grinding poverty that dogged her throughout her life. Largely self-taught, Niedecker formed attachments through her voracious reading and correspondence, but she also delighted in the disruptive richness of vernacular usage and in the homegrown, improvisational aesthetics that thrived within her immediate world. Niedecker wrote from a highly attenuated concern with biological, cultural, and political sustainability and, in her stridently modernist poems, anticipated many of the most urgent concerns in twenty-first-century poetics. 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 Davidson, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Ruth Jennison, Peter Middleton, Jenny Penberthy, Mary Pinard, Patrick Pritchett, Peter Quartermain, Lisa Robertson, Elizabeth Robinson, Eleni Sikelianos, Jonathan Skinner, Anne Waldman, Eliot Weinberger, and Elizabeth Willis.
Aesthetically linked with the New York Objectivist poets, Niedecker remained committed to her community in rural Wisconsin despite the grinding poverty that dogged her throughout her life. Largely self-taught, Niedecker formed attachments through her voracious reading and correspondence, but she also delighted in the disruptive richness of vernacular usage and in the homegrown, improvisational aesthetics that thrived within her immediate world. Niedecker wrote from a highly attenuated concern with biological, cultural, and political sustainability and, in her stridently modernist poems, anticipated many of the most urgent concerns in twenty-first-century poetics. 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 Davidson, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Ruth Jennison, Peter Middleton, Jenny Penberthy, Mary Pinard, Patrick Pritchett, Peter Quartermain, Lisa Robertson, Elizabeth Robinson, Eleni Sikelianos, Jonathan Skinner, Anne Waldman, Eliot Weinberger, and Elizabeth Willis.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781587297762 |
---|---|
Publisher: | University of Iowa Press |
Publication date: | 10/01/2008 |
Series: | Contemp North American Poetry |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | NOOK Book |
Pages: | 334 |
File size: | 4 MB |
About the Author
Elizabeth Willis teaches poetry and poetics at Wesleyan University. Her books of poetry include The Human Abstract, Turneresque, and Meteoric Flowers. She was raised in Wisconsin.
Table of Contents
AcknowledgmentsAbbreviations
Introduction
Natural and Political Histories
Michael Davidson
Life by Water: Lorine Niedecker and Critical Regionalism
Mary Pinard
Niedecker’s Grammar of Flooding
Eleni Sikelianos
Life Pops from a Music Box Shaped Like a Gun:
Dismemberments and Mendings in Niedecker’s Figures
Jonathan Skinner
Particular Attention: Lorine Niedecker’s Natural Histories
Jenny Penberthy
Writing Lake Superior
Sounding Process
Lisa Robertson
In Phonographic Deep Song: Sounding Niedecker
Patrick Pritchett
How to Do Things with Nothing: Lorine Niedecker Sings the Blues
Rae Armantrout
Dark infested
Elizabeth Robinson
Music Becomes Story: Lyric and Narrative Patterning in
the Work of Lorine Niedecker
Ruth Jennison
Waking into Ideology: Lorine Niedecker’s Experiments
in the Syntax of Consciousness
Rachel Blau Duplessis
Lorine Niedecker’s “Paean to Place” and its Reflective Fusions
Niedecker and Company
Eliot Weinberger
Niedecker/Reznikoff
Glenna Breslin
Lorine Niedecker: The Poet in Her Homeplace
Anne Waldman
Who Is Sounding? Awakened View,
Gaps, Silence, Cage, Niedecker
Elizabeth Willis
The Poetics of Affinity: Niedecker, Morris, and the Art of Work
Peter Middleton
The British Niedecker
Peter Quartermain
Take Oil / and Hum:
Niedecker / Bunting
Selected Bibliography
Contributors
Index
Customer Reviews
Related Searches
Explore More Items
Using experimental style as a framework for close readings of writings produced by late twentieth-century ...
Using experimental style as a framework for close readings of writings produced by late twentieth-century
North American women, Deborah Mix places Gertrude Stein at the center of a feminist and multicultural account of twentieth-century innovative writing. Her meticulously argued work ...
In this carefully crafted analysis, James von der Heydt shines a new light on the ...
In this carefully crafted analysis, James von der Heydt shines a new light on the
lyric craft of Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and James Merrill and considers how their seascape-vision redefines poetry's purpose.
At the core of this nuanced book is the question that ecocritics have been debating ...
At the core of this nuanced book is the question that ecocritics have been debating
for decades: what is the relationship between aesthetics and activism, between art and community? By using a pastoral lens to examine ten fictional narratives that ...
Whether Thersites in Homer’s Iliad, Wilfred Owen in “Dulce et Decorum Est,” or Allen Ginsberg ...
Whether Thersites in Homer’s Iliad, Wilfred Owen in “Dulce et Decorum Est,” or Allen Ginsberg
in “Wichita Vortex Sutra,” poets have long given solitary voice against the brutality of war. The hasty cancellation of the 2003 White House symposium “Poetry ...
Coloring Locals examines how the late nineteenth-century politics of gender, class, race, and ethnicity influenced Kate ...
Coloring Locals examines how the late nineteenth-century politics of gender, class, race, and ethnicity influenced Kate
Chopin's writing for the major family periodical of her time. Chopin's canonical status as a feminist rebel and reformer conflicts with the fact that one ...
“Dreaming Revolution is a cogent and compelling discussion of transgression in major American romances and their ...
“Dreaming Revolution is a cogent and compelling discussion of transgression in major American romances and their
British progenitors… Bradfield provides convincing readings that demonstrate precisely how transgression as a romantic ideal is recuperated as an aspect of bourgeois ideology… ...
Hewing to Experience charts Sherman Paul's course of coming to know William Carlos Williams, Hart Crane, ...
Hewing to Experience charts Sherman Paul's course of coming to know William Carlos Williams, Hart Crane,
Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, and Gary Snyder and the critical scholarship devoted to them as it provides an assessment of recent criticism. The initial section, ...
Pioneers moving into Iowa in the nineteenth century created a distinctly rural culture: family, farm, ...
Pioneers moving into Iowa in the nineteenth century created a distinctly rural culture: family, farm,
church, and school were its dominant institutions. After decades of settlement, however, several lively and perceptive generations interpreted their political, economic, and cultural environment—their ...