Book chapter
The Poetics of Affinity: Niedecker, Morris, and the Art of Work
Radical Vernacular, pp.223-246
University of Iowa Press
10/01/2008
Abstract
Lorine Niedecker’s work is saturated with politics, with an embodied, practical intelligence conceived at the intersection of public and private lives. It’s not simply that there are unions, bosses, paychecks, and presidents in her poems or that two of her most frequently recurring nouns are “war” and “work.” It’s what lies behind her wry, undercutting perspective; her fluid sense of material and intellectual property; her awareness of the world as a site of physical and social evolution; her sense of language’s transformative power; and her drive for self-determination: “I must possess myself” (CW28). Her poems insist that art and
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Poetics of Affinity: Niedecker, Morris, and the Art of Work
- Creators
- Elizabeth Willis
- Contributors
- Elizabeth Willis (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Radical Vernacular, pp.223-246
- Publisher
- University of Iowa Press
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/01/2008
- Academic Unit
- Creative Writing
- Record Identifier
- 9984399627402771
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