Radical vernacular
Subtitle: Lorine Niedecker and the poetics of place
By: edited by Elizabeth Willis.
Contributors: Willis, Elizabeth.
Series: Contemporary North American poetry series
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9781587296987
Subjects: Niedecker, Lorine -- Criticism and interpretation
Description: "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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and index.