At the suggestion of Mark Weiss I have been reading Lorine Niedecker's
_The Granite Pail_. I read through it in two sittings, last night & this
morning & now I want to go back & read more slowly. I cannot agree with
Douglas that the early poems are "minor"--to my way of reading, each one
is a small investigation of reality by means of language. The later
poems are more expansive, even admitting autobiographical details while
focusing very much on the world's surround. There is a wonderful, subtle
verbal wit at work here--wit as non-rational intelligence &
apprehension. with that makes a connection between "pencil" & "plover"
that makes one distrust the doctrine of the arbitrary nature of signs.
A brilliant poet who deserves wider recognition.
Another poet in the objectivist mode, Peter Money, has just published
_Finding It_, a very slim "selected poems" that gathers the fugitive
piecves of this still young poet. [Mille Grazie Press / ISBN
1-890887-15-3] I recommend this highly.
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Joseph Duemer
School of Liberal Arts-5750
Clarkson University
Potsdam NY 13699
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"Always come down from the barren heights
of cleverness into the green valleys of folly."
::Wittgenstein
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