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Publication Date: April 2, 2013
Publisher Marketing: Lake Superior is a compilation of writings around Lorine Niedecker's poem of the same title--strata that inform the poem's ecological and historical resonance.
Lorine Niedecker was a major American poet often connected with the Objectivists. She lived in Wisconsin from 1903 to 1970.
From "Lake Superior Country"
Every bit of you is a bit of the earth . . .
So--here we go. Maybe as rocks and I pass each other I could say how-do-you-do to an agate.
"Niedecker [is] one of the most important and original poets of this past century."--August Kleinzahler, London Review of Books