| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 307 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Contemporary North American poetry series |
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Contemporary North American poetry series.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-294) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Niedecker, Lorine -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Niedecker, Lorine fast |
| Subject |
POETRY -- American -- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Women Authors.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Willis, Elizabeth
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| ISBN |
9781587297762 |
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1587297760 |
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