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Lorine Niedecker

Born on May 12, 1903, Lorine Niedecker's poetry has often been placed in the Imagist and Objectivist movements...
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	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


		Related Prose
		Poems for Times of Turmoil

		Who Was Lorine Niedecker? by Elizabeth Willis


		Poems about Poetry
		Epistles, Book II, Ars Poetica by Horace

		Poetry as Insurgent Art [I am signaling you through the flames] by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

		A Book Of Music by Jack Spicer

		A True Poem by Lloyd Schwartz

		Adam's Curse by W. B. Yeats, read by James Wright

		Always on the Train by Ruth Stone

		Ars Poetica by Archibald MacLeish

		Ars Poetica (cocoons) by Dana Levin

		Arthur's Anthology of English Poetry by Laurence Lerner

		Because You Asked about the Line Between Prose and Poetry by Howard Nemerov

		Blue or Green by James Galvin

		Briefly It Enters, and Briefly Speaks by Jane Kenyon

		Broadway by Mark Doty

		Diving into the Wreck by Adrienne Rich, read by Anne Waldman

		Eating Poetry by Mark Strand

		Endnote by Hayden Carruth

		Envoi by William Meredith

		Ground Swell by Mark Jarman

		How to Read a Poem: Beginner's Manual by Pamela Spiro Wagner

		If It All Went Up in Smoke by George Oppen

		Languages by Carl Sandburg

		O Black and Unknown Bards by James Weldon Johnson

		Poetry by Marianne Moore

		Poetry Is a Destructive Force by Wallace Stevens

		Prefix: Finding the measure by Robert Kelly

		Speech Alone by Jean Follain

		Take the I Out by Sharon Olds

		Teaching the Ape to Write Poems by James Tate

		The Art of Poetry [excerpt] by Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

		The Bear by Galway Kinnell

		The Composition of the Text by Adriano Spatola

		The Difference between a Child and a Poem by Michael Blumenthal

		The Indications [excerpt] by Walt Whitman

		The Poem as Mask by Muriel Rukeyser

		The Poems I Have Not Written by John Brehm

		The Uses of Poetry by William Carlos Williams

		This Bridge, Like Poetry, is Vertigo by Marie Ponsot

		What He Thought by Heather McHugh

		Why I Am Not a Painter by Frank O'Hara

		Workshop by Billy Collins

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by Lorine Niedecker

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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