Open AccessProperty, Poverty, Poetry: Lorine Niedecker’s Quiet Revelations
Author(s) -
MarieChristine Lemardeley
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
e-rea
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1638-1718
DOI - 10.4000/erea.174
Subject(s) - quiet , poetry , property (philosophy) , poverty , literature , art , sociology , philosophy , political science , law , physics , astronomy , epistemology
Even though Lorine Niedecker (1903-1971) lived a rather secluded life in Wisconsin on Black Hawk Island near Fort Atkinson, and despite her deceptively simple declaration, “The Brontes had their moors, I have my marshes,” she was anything but a regionalist poet. She kept very much in touch with the international avant-garde, through small press magazines, namely transition edited by Eugene Jolas, who was the first one to publish texts by Breton, Reverdy and Soupault along with Gertrude Stein’..