Lorine Niedecker collected works /
""The Brontës had their moors, I have my marshes, "" Lorine Niedecker wrote of flood-prone Black Hawk Island in Wisconsin, where she lived most of her life. Her life by water, as she called it, could not have been further removed from the avant-garde poetry scene where she also m...
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2002
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Table of Contents:
- Poems 1928-1936. Transition
- Mourning dove
- Spirals. Promise of brilliant funeral ; When ecstasy is inconvenient
- Progression. Canvass
- For exhibition
- Tea
- Beyond what
- I heard
- Memorial Day
- Stage directions
- Synamism
- Will you write me a Christmas poem?
- Next year or I fly my rounds tempestuous
- Domestic and unavoidable
- The president of the holding company
- Fancy another day gone
- News.
- Poems 1936-1945. O let's glee glow as we go
- Troubles to win
- A country's economics sick
- Lady in the leopard coat
- Jim Poor's his name
- Scuttle up the workshop
- There was a bridge once that said I'm going
- When do we live again Ann
- Missus Dorra
- No retiring summer stroke
- To war they kept
- Petrou his name was sorrow
- The eleventh of progressional
- Young girl to marry
- I spent my money
- Trees over the roof.
- New goose 1936-1945. Don't shoot the rail!
- Bombings
- Hop press
- Ash woods, willow, close to shore
- The music, lady
- For sun and moon and radio
- She had tumult of the brain
- My coat threadbare
- Mr. Van Ess bought 14 washcloths?
- Not feeling well, my wood uncut
- Remember my little granite pail?
- A lawnmower's one of the babies I'd have
- My man says the wind blows from the south
- Du bay
- I'm a sharecropper
- Here it gives the laws for fishing thru the ice-- On Columbus Day he set out for the north
- Black Hawk held : in reason
- We know him--Law and Order League
- The clothesline post is set
- I said to my head, write something
- Grandpa's got his old age pension
- There's a better shine
- The museum man!
- That woman!--eyeing houses
- Hand crocheted rug
- They came at a pace
- I doubt I'll get silk stockings out
- To see the man who took care of our stock
- A monster owl
- Gen. Rodimstev's story/(Stalingrad)
- Birds' mating-fight
- From my bed I see
- Asa Gray wrote Increase Lapham
- Pioneers
- Well, spring overflows the land
- Audubon
- Van Gogh
- What a woman!--hooks men like rugs
- The brown muskrat, noiseless
- The broad-leaved arrow-head.
- "New goose" manuscript 1936-1945. To a Maryland editor, 1943
- Summer's away, I traded my chicks for trees
- She was a mourner too. Now she's gone
- Seven years a charming woman wore
- The land of four o'clocks is here
- Just before she died
- Brought the enemy down
- Nothing nourishing
- The number of Britons killed
- Old Hamilton hailed the man from the grocery store
- Motor cars
- Allied convoy/reaches Russia
- Depression years
- Coopered at Fish Creek
- A working man appeared in the street
- Woman with umbrella
- Automobile accident
- Look, the woods, the sky, our home
- Coming out of sleep
- Voyageurs
- I walked/from Chicago to Big Bull Falls (Wausau)
- See the girls in shorts on their bicycles
- When Johnny (Chapman) Appleseed
- Tell me a story about the war
- Poet Percival said : I struck a lode
- Terrible things coming up
- 1937
- Their apples fall down
- The government men said don't plant wheat
- New!
- (L.Z.)
- Chimney sweep
- Swept snow, Li Po
- Regards to Mr. Glover
- Sunday's motor-cars
- Let's play a game
- Lugubre for a child
- Could you be right
- Look close
- If I were a bird
- High, lovely, light
- Letter from Paul
- Two old men
- Paul, hello
- So this was I
- Am I real way out in space
- On a row of cabins/next my home
- In moonlight lies
- The cabin door flew open
- The elegant office girl
- When brown folk lived a distance.
- For Paul and other poems 1945-1956. For Paul. Paul
- What bird would light
- Nearly landless and on the way to water
- Understand me, dead is nothing
- How bright you'll find young people
- If he is of constant depth
- The young ones go away to school
- Some have chimes
- O Tannenbaum
- In the great snowfall before the bomb
- Not all that's heard is music. We leave
- Tell me a story about the war
- Laval, Pemeret, Pétain
- Thure Kumlien
- Shut up in woods
- Your father to me in your eighth summer
- To Paul now old enough to read
- What horror to awake at night
- Sorrow moves in wide waves
- Jesse James and his brother Frank
- May you have lumps in your mashed potatoes
- Old Mother turns blue and from us
- I hear the weather
- Dead
- Can knowledge be conveyed that isn't felt?
- Ten o'clock
- Adirondack summer
- The slip of a girl-announcer
- Now go to the party
- Dear Paul
- My father said "I remember"
- You know, he said, they used to make
- He built four houses
- In Europe they grow a new bean while here
- Paul/when the leaves
- I've been away from poetry
- I am sick with the time's buying sickness
- The death of my poor father
- To Aeneas who closed his piano
- My friend the black and white collie
- "Oh ivy green"
- As I shook the dust
- They live a cool distance
- Violin debut.
- For Paul and other poems. Other poems 1945-1956. Horse, hello
- Energy glows at the lips
- Hi, hot-and-humid
- Woman in middle life
- We physicians watch the juices rise
- 1937
- European travel/(Nazi New Order)
- Depression years
- So you're married, young man
- She grew where every spring
- I sit in my own house
- On hearing/the wood pewee
- Along the river
- He moved in light
- Keen and lovely man moved as in a dance
- He lived--childhood summers
- I rose from marsh mud
- Dear Mona, Mary and all
- Don't tell me property is sacred!
- Wartime
- February almost March bites the cold
- People, people
- July, waxwings
- Old man who seined
- Mother is dead
- The graves
- Kepler
- Bonpland
- Happy New Year.
- Poems 1957-1959. Linnaeus in Lapland
- Fog-thick morning
- Hear
- Cricket-song
- Musical toys
- I fear this war
- Van Gogh could see
- No matter where you are
- How white the gulls
- Springtime's wide
- White
- Dusk
- Beautiful girl
- New-sawed
- My friend tree.
- Poems 1960-1964. In Leonardo's light
- You are my friend
- Come in
- The men leave the car
- The wild and wavy event
- Florida
- My life is hung up
- Easter
- Get a load
- Poet's work
- Property is poverty--
- Now in one year
- River-marsh-drowse
- Club
- To foreclose
- To my small/electric pump
- T.E. Lawrence
- As I paint the street
- Art Center.
- Homemade / handmade poems 1960-1964. Consider at the outset
- Ah your face
- Alcoholic dream
- To my pres-/sure pump
- Laundromat
- March
- Something in the water
- Santayana's
- If only my friend
- Frog noise/suddenly stops
- In the transcendence
- To whom
- Margaret Fuller
- Watching dan-/cers on skates
- Hospital kitchen
- Chicory flower/on campus
- Fall ("Early morning corn")
- LZ's
- Letter from Ian
- Some float off on chocolate bars
- I knew a clean man
- Scythe
- So he said/on radio
- I visit/the graves
- For best work
- The obliteration
- Spring
- The park/"a darling walk/for the mind"
- Who was Mary Shelley?
- Wild strawberries.
- Poems 1965-1967. Autumn
- Last night the trash barrel
- The boy tossed the news
- Popcorn-can cover
- Truth
- Lights, lifts
- O late fall
- Churchill's death
- The Badlands
- A student
- Bird singing
- Easter greeting
- City talk
- As praiseworthy
- They've lost their leaves
- My mother saw the green tree toad
- Tradition
- Autumn night
- Sky
- Nothing to speak of
- Swedenborg
- I lost you to water, summer
- I married
- You see here
- Your erudition
- Alone
- Why can't I be happy
- And what you liked
- Cleaned all surfaces
- Young in Fall I said : the birds.
- North Central. Lake Superior. In every part of every living thing
- Iron the common element of earth
- Radisson
- (The long/canoes)
- Through all this granite land
- And at the blue ice superior spot
- Joliet
- Ruby of corundum
- Wild pigeon
- Schoolcraft left the Soo--canoes
- Inland then
- The smooth black stone
- I'm sorry to have missed
- My life by water.
- Traces of living things. Museum
- Far reach
- TV
- We are what the seas
- What cause have you
- Stone
- The eye
- For best work
- Smile
- Fall ("We must pull")
- Years
- Unsurpassed in beauty
- Human bean
- High class human
- Ah your face
- Sewing a dress
- I walked/on New Year's Day
- J.F. Kennedy after/the Bay of Pigs
- Mergansers
- "Shelter"
- Wintergreen ridge.
- Poems 1968-1970. Paean to place
- Alliance
- Bashō
- The man of law
- Not all harsh sounds displease
- Jefferson and Adams
- Katharine Anne
- War.
- Harpsichord & salt fish. Thomas Jefferson
- The Ballad of Basil
- Wilderness
- Consider
- Otherwise
- Nursery rhyme
- Three Americans
- Poems at the porthole. Blue and white ; The soil is poor ; Michelangelo ; Wallace Stevens
- Subliminal. Sleep's dream ; Waded, watched, warbled ; Illustrated night clock's ; Honest ; Night
- LZ
- Peace
- Thomas Jefferson inside
- Foreclosure
- His carpets flowered
- Darwin.
- Prose and radio plays 1937. Uncle.
- Poems 1951-1952. Switchboard girl
- The evening's automobiles
- As I lay dying
- from Taste and tenderness.
