The Last of the Niedecker

Please read the rest of Lorine's poetry, and the essays in Radical Vernacular titled "Darkinfested" by Rae Armantrout (pg. 91) "Niedecker, Morris, and the Art of Work" by Elizabeth Willis (pg. 223) and "Take Oil/and Hum: Niedecker and Bunting" by Peter Quartermain (pg. 271).

If anyone would enjoy a study/work night, please let me (Katherine) know, I love to hear Niedecker read aloud. Good luck with your papers/projects!

Radical Vernacular for Middle Niedecker

Sorry for the late post (the essays aren't too long, but they're interesting):

Mary Pinard, "Niedecker's Grammar of Flooding" (21)

Patrick Pritchett, "How to Do Things with Nothing: Lorine Niedecker Sings the Blues" (91)

Middle Niedecker

from the Collected:

1945-1956

1957-1959

1960-1964

1965-1967

Stay tuned for an assignment from Radical Vernacular.

Early Niedecker

From the Collected Works

Please read:

Life and Writing
Poems of 1928-1936
(23-79)
Poems of 1936-1945
(85-121)

Please include the finishing poems of the "New Goose" manuscript
(125-136)

From Radical Vernacular

Please Read:
Eleni Sikelianos:
Life Pops from a Music Box Shaped Like a Gun: Dismemberments and Mendings in Niedicker's Figurines
(31)

Lisa Robertson: In Phonographic Deep Song: Sounding Niedecker
(83)

Please check back by Wednesday for possible additions,


As always post once by Sunday, April 18th.


Thanks!

Late Oppen Readings

For next Monday, as you may recall, there will be no required blog posting (feel free to post if you please).

Read for Monday:

From the Collected:

Seascape: Needle's Eye
Myth of the Blaze
Primitive
Uncollected Published Poems
Selected Unpublished Poems

And From the Daybooks:

Daybook V

Feel free to read/disregard the other daybooks.

Also, here are some poets who have been influenced by Oppen's poetry, provided to us by Penn Sound:

Rae Armantrout:
http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Armantrout.php#9-20-07

Michael Heller:
http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Heller.php

Charles Bernstein:
http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Bernstein-readings.html#3-14-09

Thingness

Didn't really read more than a paragraph but seemed relevant if you're up for it. Have a great week!

http://speakingofpoems.blogspot.com/2010/04/thinginess.html

Middle Oppen

Collected Prose:

Daybooks I & II



Collected Poetry:

The Materials
This In Which
Of Being Numerous



Make sure to give special attention to Of Being Numerous.


Also, as we are going into spring break, post once by Sunday, March 28. And twice overall by Sunday, April 4.