Lake Superior

Lake Superior

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<div><I>Lake Superior</I> is a compilation of writings around Lorine Niedecker's poem of the same title—strata that inform the poem's ecological and historical resonance.<BR><BR>Lorine Niedecker was a major American poet often connected with the Objectivists. She lived in Wisconsin from 1903 to 1970.<BR><BR><B>From "Lake Superior Country":</B><BR><I>Every bit of you is a bit of the earth . . .<BR>So—here we go. Maybe as rocks and I pass each other I could say how-do-you-do to an agate.</I><BR><BR>"Niedecker [is] one of the most important and original poets of this past century."—August Kleinzahler, <I>London Review of Books</I><BR><BR>Table of Contents:<BR>“Lake Superior” by Lorine Niedecker<BR>Lake Superior Country, a journal by Lorine Niedecker<BR>“Niedecker and the Evolutional Sublime” by Douglas Crase<BR>Three Letters from Lorine Niedecker to Cid Corman<BR>Excerpt from <I>Back Roads to Far Towns</I> by Basho and trans. by Cid Corman<BR>“Tour 14A” from <I>Wisconsin, A Guide to the Badger State</I><BR>“On a Monument to the Pigeon” by Aldo Leopold<BR>Excerpt from the writings of Pierre Esprit Radisson<BR>Excerpt from the writings of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft<BR></div>