Lorine Niedecker by Niedecker, Lorine, Penberthy, Jenny -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Page Contents Acknowledgments Life and Writing This Edition 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

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

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. Grampa'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

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

1945-1956

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 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, Pomeret, 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

Other Poems

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

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

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 26 To Foreclose To my Small/Electric Pump T. E. Lawrence As I Paint the Street Art Center

Homemade/Handmade Poems

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

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

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

Uncle 1951-1952

Switchboard Girl The Evening's Automobiles… As I Lay Dying From Taste and Tenderness

Notes and Contents Lists

Notes Contents Lists That Differ from Order in this Volume Index of Titles or First Lines

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