Grandfather    advised me:       Learn a trade I learned    to sit at desk       and condense No layoffs    from this       condensery

From Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works by Lorine Niedecker, © 2002 The Regents of the University of California, University of California Press.

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Poems by This Author

I rose from marsh mud by Lorine Niedecker I rose from marsh mud In the great snowfall before the bomb by Lorine Niedecker In the great snowfall before the bomb My Friend Tree by Lorine Niedecker My friend tree / I sawed you down When Ecstasy is Inconvenient by Lorine Niedecker Feign a great calm;

Further Reading

Poems for Times of Turmoil 4/30/92 for rodney king by Lucille Clifton blessing the boats by Lucille Clifton Chaplinesque by Hart Crane Fifteen Years of Darkness by Liu Xiaobo In a Country by Larry Levis O Little Root of a Dream by Paul Celan O Me! O Life! by Walt Whitman Recession by Sydney Lea The Second Coming by W. B. Yeats The times are nightfall, look, their light grows less by Gerard Manley Hopkins Thing by Rae Armantrout