Lorine

Or sometimes we see those conflicting impulses in the same person: Cid Corman (friend of Lorine), driven to reject the American poetry scene to pursue poetry (with a cap P) in Kyoto (thus, ostensibly, in isolation, a “private woods”) but simultaneously writing thousands of letters and going to some length to see that his poetry reached the mowed lawns of the West.

The End of History : Kenneth Goldsmith : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

Shotts also recommended Lorine Niedecker — another regional, strangely familiar regional voice.

A Book Is Published Every 30 Minutes : Emily Warn : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

Think of Zukofsky fabricating his “Objectivist” theory, marshalling his friends for an appearance in Poetry while one of the best of those poets, Lorine Niedecker, retreated to the rural Midwest, corresponding with Zukofsky to keep in touch with the social avant-garde swirl in New York.

Writing and Failure (Part 2) : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

Charles Bernstein, and Louis Zukofsky, write book length works and manifestos; Rae Armantrout and Lorine Niedecker write, you know, little untheorized expressive things.

By the Letters : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

Mai frend Lorine got awl the concert an opera tikkets fur Florida – ai just had to get there. an tehn just go where they went!

talk to your cat - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

Lorine had a unique and unglamorous way of being maudit.

languagehat.com: NIEDECKER ON THE DANUBE. 2005

As close as it was we only took three holes in the ship, one in wing, one in the right tail, and one along side of Lorine which he didn't know about until after we landed, otherwise his pants would have been messy.

26 TRIPS TO HELL 1943

Relatives said Lorine had recently moved out of the home.

KansasCity.com: Front Page 2010

Relatives said Lorine had recently moved out of the home.

KansasCity.com: Front Page 2010

Lorine Niedecker-herself awesome at least partly because of her own relative cultural and geographic isolation-wrote, "Civilization is an immense ad: Go to hell and be happy."

PoetryFoundation.org 2010