Grandfather / advised me: / Learn a trade / I learned / to sit at desk / and condense / No layoff / from this / condensery. — Lorine Niedecker Copy Share Image
Grandfather / advised me: / Learn a trade / I learned / to sit at desk / and condense / No layoff / from this / condensery. — Lorine Niedecker Copy Share Image
“Can knowledge be conveyed that isn't felt? But if transport's the problem - they tell me get a job and earn yourself an automobile-I'd… — Lorine Niedecker Copy Share Image
What would they say if they knew I sit for two months on six lines of poetry? — Lorine Niedecker Copy Share Image
“Poet's Work" Grandfather advised me: Learn a trade I learned to sit at desk and condense No layoffs from this condensery” — Lorine Niedecker Copy Share Image
“In the great snowfall before the bomb" In the great snowfall before the bomb colored yule tree lights windows, the only glow for contemplation… — Lorine Niedecker Copy Share Image
“I was the solitary plover a pencil for a wing-bone From the secret notes I must tilt upon the pressure execute and adjust In… — Lorine Niedecker Copy Share Image
Popcorn-can cover / screwed to the wall / over a hole / so the cold / can't mouse in. — Lorine Niedecker Copy Share Image
I rose from marsh mud algae, equisetum, willows, sweet green, noisy birds and frogs. — Lorine Niedecker Copy Share Image
Strange—we are always inhabiting more than one realm of existence—but they all fit in if the art is right. — Lorine Niedecker Copy Share Image
Smile / to see the lake / lay / the still sky / And / out for an easy / make / the dragonfly. — Lorine Niedecker Copy Share Image