Homemade poems
Subtitle: Lorine Niedecker ; John Harkey, editor
Contributors: Harkey, John editor, writer of additional commentary; Alcalay, Ammiel, editor of series; Mangum, Megan, book designer; Corman, Cid; City University of New York. Center for the Humanities
Series: Lost and Found, The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative -- series 3, number 2, Fall 2012; Lost and Found, The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative -- series 3, number 2.
Publisher: Center for the Humanities, the Graduate Center, The City University of New York
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 73
Description: "In October of 1964, Lorine Niedecker assembled a book of thirty poems inscribed into the pages of a dime-store sketch pad, whose front and back she had covered in wrapping paper. She carefully handwrote the pieces in blue-inked cursive, placing each one on its own unnumbered sheet of paper. By turns, the small poems in this self-publication move through a sprawling array of modes. Niedecker makes room here for—to name only the several categories that spring to mind—deft, vivid details drawn from daily life; excerpts of intimate colloquial speech; sober evocations of global violence; abstracted sound mosaics; spare ‘portraits’ of historical figures; and found poems pulled from friends’ letters." – from John Harkey's Usable Dimensions: An Afterword.
Notes: Facsimile reproduction of unpublished manuscript given by Lorine Niedecker to Cid Corman in 1964 (original housed in the New York Public Library in the Cid Corman collection of papers).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 11-12 of supplemental booklet).
Table of contents: title: Homemade poems --; title: Biographical notes ; -- In supplemental booklet:; title: Usable dimensions: an afterword -- John Harkey.