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Modernist Women Poets:
Mina Loy, Marianne Moore, Lorine Niedecker
SPRING 2005 / SUSAN TICHY / THURSDAYS 7:20-10:00 / EAST BUILDING 134
Lorine
Niedecker: weeks 10-14
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week 12: The Subconscious & the Evolutional Sublime
This week's reading will take us back through some poems we've already read, but will also extend our reading -- from some of Niedecker's earliest published poems to some of her latest. Peter Nicholls' explication of Niedecker's interest in a linguistic subconscious will help us bridge from poetic form to surrealism, from "the folk" to Darwin and geology, and from short poems to long ones. Douglas Crase's beautiful essay on "Lake Superior" will bring to a close our consideration of Niedecker as a "nature poet" and a poet of America's vast geological and historical spaces.
REQUIRED READING:
Collected Works:
From 1928-1936:
When Ecstasy Is Inconvenient 25, Canvass 33, For exhibition 33, Tea 33, Synamism 36, Next Year or I Fly My Rounds Tempestuous 41-67, News 79, Lady in the Leopard Coat 86, Jim Poor’s his name 86, Scuttle up the workshop 87, Notes to Progression 369, Beyond what 370
From North Central:Lake Superior 232-237, My Life by
Water 237, Traces of Living Things 238-247, Wintergreen Ridge 247-257
From 1968-1970:
Paean to Place 261-270, The man
of law 271, Not all harsh sounds displease 271,
From Harpsichord & Salt Fish:
Consider 283, Nursery Rhyme 285,
Subliminal 287, Honest 288, A quiet flock 289, LZ 289
On Line Reading:
Instructor's Notes: Quotes from Niedecker & her readers
Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Nature" (FYI) http://www.bartleby.com/5/114.html
Reading at the JC Reserve Desk:
Peter Nichols: "Lorine Niedecker: Rural Surreal" in LNWP p. 193
Douglas Crase: "Niedecker and the Evolutional Sublime" LNWP p. 327
