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Author	Niedecker, Lorine.
Title	Works. 2002
	Collected works / Lorine Niedecker ; edited by Jenny Penberthy.
Imprint	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2002]
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Author	Niedecker, Lorine.
Alt Name	Penberthy, Jenny Lynn, 1953-

Table of Contents
	Acknowledgments
	Life and Writing					1
	This Edition					13
	Transition					23
	Mourning Dove					23
	Promise of Brilliant Funeral					24
	When Ecstasy is Inconvenient					25
	Progression					25
	Canvass					33
	For exhibition					33
	Tea					33
	Beyond what					34
	I heard					34
	Memorial Day					34
	Stage Directions					35
	Synamism					36
	Will You Write Me a Christmas Poem?					37
	Next Year or I Fly My Rounds Tempestuous					41
	Domestic and Unavoidable					68
	The President of the Holding Company					71
	Fancy Another Day Gone					73
	News					79
	O let's glee glow as we go					85
	Troubles to win					85
	A country's economics sick					86
	Lady in the Leopard Coat					86
	Jim Poor's his name					86
	Scuttle up the workshop					87
	There was a bridge once that said I'm going					87
	When do we live again Ann					87
	Missus Dorra					88
	No retiring summer stroke					88
	To war they kept					89
	Petrou his name was sorrow					89
	The eleventh of progressional					90
	Young girl to marry					90
	I spent my money					90
	Trees over the roof					91
	Don't shoot the rail!					92
	Bombings					92
	Hop press					92
	Ash woods, willow, close to shore					93
	The music, lady					94
	For sun and moon and radio					94
	She had tumult of the brain					94
	My coat threadbare					95
	Mr. Van Ess bought 14 washcloths?					95
	Not feeling well, my wood uncut					95
	Remember my little granite pail?					96
	A lawnmower's one of the babies I'd have					96
	My man says the wind blows from the south					97
	Du Bay					97
	I'm a sharecropper					98
	Here it gives the laws for fishing thru the ice -					98
	On Columbus Day he set out for the north					98
	Black Hawk held: In reason					99
	We know him - Law and Order League -					99
	The clothesline post is set					100
	I said to my head, Write something					100
	Grampa's got his old age pension					100
	There's a better shine					101
	The museum man!					101
	That woman! - eyeing houses					101
	Hand Crocheted Rug					102
	They came at a pace					102
	I doubt I'll get silk stockings out					103
	To see the man who took care of our stock					103
	A monster owl					103
	Gen. Rodimstev's story (Stalingrad)					104
	Birds' mating-fight					104
	From my bed I see					104
	Asa Gray wrote Increase Lapham					105
	Pioneers					105
	Well, spring overflows the land					107
	Audubon					107
	van Gogh					108
	What a woman! - hooks men like rugs					108
	The brown muskrat, noiseless					109
	The broad-leaved Arrow-head					109
	To a Maryland editor, 1943					110
	Summer's away, I traded my chicks for trees					110
	She was a mourner too. Now she's gone					111
	Seven years a charming woman wore					111
	The land of four o'clocks is here					111
	Just before she died					112
	Brought the enemy down					112
	Nothing nourishing					112
	The number of Britons killed					113
	Old Hamilton hailed the man from the grocery store					113
	Motor cars					113
	Allied Convoy/Reaches Russia					114
	Depression years					114
	Coopered at Fish Creek					114
	A working man appeared in the street					115
	Woman with Umbrella					115
	Automobile Accident					116
	Look, the woods, the sky, our home					116
	Coming out of Sleep					116
	Voyageurs					117
	I walked/from Chicago to Big Bull Falls (Wausau)					117
	See the girls in shorts on their bicycles					118
	When Johnny (Chapman) Appleseed					118
	Tell me a story about the war					118
	Poet Percival said: I struck a lode					119
	Terrible things coming up					119
	1937					120
	Their apples fall down					120
	The government men said Don't plant wheat					121
	New!					125
	(L.Z.)					125
	Chimney Sweep					125
	Swept snow, Li Po					126
	Regards to Mr. Glover					126
	Sunday's motor-cars					127
	Let's play a game					127
	Lugubre for a child					128
	Could You Be Right					129
	Look close					129
	If I were a bird					130
	High, lovely, light					131
	Letter from Paul					132
	Two old men					132
	Paul, hello					133
	So this was I					133
	Am I real way out in space					134
	On a row of cabins/next my home					134
	In moonlight lies					135
	The cabin door flew open					135
	The elegant office girl					136
	When brown folk lived a distance					136
	Paul					137
	What bird would light					137
	Nearly landless and on the way to water					138
	Understand me, dead is nothing					138
	How bright you'll find young people					139
	If he is of constant depth					140
	The young ones go away to school					140
	Some have chimes					141
	O Tannenbaum					141
	In the great snowfall before the bomb					142
	Not all that's heard is music. We leave					143
	Tell me a story about the war					144
	Laval, Pomeret, Petain					144
	Thure Kumlien					145
	Shut up in woods					145
	Your father to me in your eighth summer					146
	To Paul now old enough to read					146
	What horror to awake at night					147
	Sorrow moves in wide waves					148
	Jesse James and his brother Frank					148
	May you have lumps in your mashed potatoes					149
	Old Mother turns blue and from us					149
	I hear the weather					150
	Dead					150
	Can knowledge be conveyed that isn't felt?					150
	Ten o'clock					151
	Adirondack Summer					151
	The slip of a girl-announcer					152
	Now go to the party					152
	Dear Paul					153
	My father said "I remember"					154
	You know, he said, they used to make					154
	He built four houses					155
	In Europe they grow a new bean while here					155
	Paul/when the leaves					156
	I've been away from poetry					157
	I am sick with the Time's buying sickness					157
	The death of my poor father					157
	To Aeneas who closed his piano					158
	My friend the black and white collie					159
	"Oh ivy green"					159
	As I shook the dust					160
	They live a cool distance					160
	Violin Debut					161
	Horse, hello					162
	Energy glows at the lips -					162
	Hi, Hot-and-Humid					163
	Woman in middle life					163
	We physicians watch the juices rise					163
	1937					164
	European Travel/(Nazi New Order)					165
	Depression years					165
	So you're married, young man					165
	She grew where every spring					166
	I sit in my own house					167
	On hearing/the wood pewee					167
	Along the river					168
	He moved in light					168
	Keen and lovely man moved as in a dance					169
	He lived - childhood sumnmers					169
	I rose from marsh mud					170
	Dear Mona, Mary and all					171
	Don't tell me property is sacred!					172
	Wartime					172
	February almost March bites the cold					173
	People, people -					173
	July, waxwings					174
	Old man who seined					174
	Mother is dead					174
	The graves					175
	Kepler					175
	Bonpland					176
	Happy New Year					176
	Linnaeus in Lapland					181
	Fog-thick morning -					181
	Hear					181
	Cricket-song -					182
	Musical Toys					182
	I fear this war					183
	Van Gogh could see					183
	No matter where you are					183
	How white the gulls					184
	Springtime's wide					184
	White					184
	Dusk -					185
	Beautiful girl -					185
	New-sawed					185
	My friend tree					186
	In Leonardo's light					189
	You are my friend -					189
	Come In					190
	The men leave the car					190
	The wild and wavy event					191
	Florida					192
	My life is hung up					193
	Easter					193
	Get a load					194
	Poet's work					194
	Property is poverty -					194
	Now in one year					195
	River-marsh-drowse					195
	Club 26					196
	To foreclose					197
	To my small/electric pump					197
	T. E. Lawrence					198
	As I paint the street					198
	Art Center					199
	Consider at the outset					200
	Ah your face					200
	Alcoholic dream					200
	To my pres-/sure pump					201
	Laundromat					202
	March					202
	Something in the water					202
	Santayana's					203
	If only my friend					203
	Frog noise/suddenly stops					203
	In the transcendence					204
	To whom					204
	Margaret Fuller					205
	Watching dan-/cers on skates					205
	Hospital Kitchen					205
	Chicory flower/on campus					206
	Fall ("Early morning corn")					206
	LZ's					206
	Letter from lan					207
	Some float off on chocolate bars					207
	I knew a clean man					208
	Scythe					209
	So he said/on radio					209
	I visit/the graves					210
	For best work					210
	The obliteration					211
	Spring					211
	The park/"a darling walk/for the mind"					212
	Who was Mary Shelley?					212
	Wild strawberries					213
	Autumn					217
	Last night the trash barrel					217
	The boy tossed the news					217
	Popcorn-can cover					218
	Truth					218
	Lights, lifts					218
	O late fall					219
	Churchill's Death					219
	The Badlands					220
	A student					220
	Bird singing					221
	Easter Greeting					221
	City Talk					222
	As praiseworthy					223
	They've lost their leaves					223
	My mother saw the green tree toad					223
	Tradition					224
	Autumn Night					225
	Sky					225
	Nothing to speak of					226
	Swedenborg					226
	I lost you to water, summer					227
	I married					228
	You see here					228
	Your erudition					229
	Alone					229
	Why can't I be happy					230
	And what you liked					230
	Cleaned all surfaces					231
	Young in Fall I said: the birds					231
	In every part of every living thing					232
	Iron the common element of earth					232
	Radisson					232
	(The long/canoes)					233
	Through all this granite land					233
	And at the blue ice superior spot					233
	Joliet					234
	Ruby of corundum					234
	Wild Pigeon					235
	Schoolcraft left the Soo - canoes					235
	Inland then					236
	The smooth black stone					236
	I'm sorry to have missed					237
	My Life by Water					237
	Museum					238
	Far reach					239
	TV					239
	We are what the seas					240
	What cause have you					240
	Stone					240
	The eye					241
	For best work					242
	Smile					242
	Fall ("We must pull")					242
	Years					243
	Unsurpassed in beauty					243
	Human bean					243
	High class human					244
	Ah your face					244
	Sewing a dress					245
	I walked/on New Year's Day					245
	J. F. Kennedy after/the Bay of Pigs					246
	Mergansers					246
	"Shelter"					246
	Wintergreen Ridge					247
	Paean to Place					261
	Alliance					270
	Basho					270
	The man of law					271
	Not all harsh sounds displease -					271
	Jefferson and Adams					271
	Katharine Anne					273
	War					273
	Thomas Jefferson					275
	The Ballad of Basil					282
	Wilderness					283
	Consider					283
	Otherwise					284
	Nursery Rhyme					285
	Three Americans					285
	Blue and white					286
	The soil is poor					286
	Michelangelo					287
	Wallace Stevens					287
	Sleep's dream					287
	Waded, watched, warbled					288
	Illustrated night clock's					288
	Honest					288
	Night					289
	LZ					289
	Peace					290
	Thomas Jefferson Inside					291
	Foreclosure					291
	His Carpets Flowered					292
	Darwin					295
	Uncle					305
	Switchboard Girl					335
	The evening's automobiles ...					338
	As I Lay Dying					343
	from Taste and Tenderness					361
	Notes					365
	Contents Lists That Differ from Order in This Volume					459
	Index of Titles or First Lines					467

LOCATION	CALL #	STATUS	MESSAGE
MUSKINGUM STACKS	PS3527 .I6 2002	AVAILABLE

Author	Niedecker, Lorine.
Alt Name	Penberthy, Jenny Lynn, 1953-
Description	xxiii, 471 pages : facsimiles ; 24 cm
Bibliography Note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN	0520224337 (cloth : alk. paper)
	0520224345 (paper : alk. paper)
OCLC #	47989785

Table of Contents
	Acknowledgments
	Life and Writing					1
	This Edition					13
	Transition					23
	Mourning Dove					23
	Promise of Brilliant Funeral					24
	When Ecstasy is Inconvenient					25
	Progression					25
	Canvass					33
	For exhibition					33
	Tea					33
	Beyond what					34
	I heard					34
	Memorial Day					34
	Stage Directions					35
	Synamism					36
	Will You Write Me a Christmas Poem?					37
	Next Year or I Fly My Rounds Tempestuous					41
	Domestic and Unavoidable					68
	The President of the Holding Company					71
	Fancy Another Day Gone					73
	News					79
	O let's glee glow as we go					85
	Troubles to win					85
	A country's economics sick					86
	Lady in the Leopard Coat					86
	Jim Poor's his name					86
	Scuttle up the workshop					87
	There was a bridge once that said I'm going					87
	When do we live again Ann					87
	Missus Dorra					88
	No retiring summer stroke					88
	To war they kept					89
	Petrou his name was sorrow					89
	The eleventh of progressional					90
	Young girl to marry					90
	I spent my money					90
	Trees over the roof					91
	Don't shoot the rail!					92
	Bombings					92
	Hop press					92
	Ash woods, willow, close to shore					93
	The music, lady					94
	For sun and moon and radio					94
	She had tumult of the brain					94
	My coat threadbare					95
	Mr. Van Ess bought 14 washcloths?					95
	Not feeling well, my wood uncut					95
	Remember my little granite pail?					96
	A lawnmower's one of the babies I'd have					96
	My man says the wind blows from the south					97
	Du Bay					97
	I'm a sharecropper					98
	Here it gives the laws for fishing thru the ice -					98
	On Columbus Day he set out for the north					98
	Black Hawk held: In reason					99
	We know him - Law and Order League -					99
	The clothesline post is set					100
	I said to my head, Write something					100
	Grampa's got his old age pension					100
	There's a better shine					101
	The museum man!					101
	That woman! - eyeing houses					101
	Hand Crocheted Rug					102
	They came at a pace					102
	I doubt I'll get silk stockings out					103
	To see the man who took care of our stock					103
	A monster owl					103
	Gen. Rodimstev's story (Stalingrad)					104
	Birds' mating-fight					104
	From my bed I see					104
	Asa Gray wrote Increase Lapham					105
	Pioneers					105
	Well, spring overflows the land					107
	Audubon					107
	van Gogh					108
	What a woman! - hooks men like rugs					108
	The brown muskrat, noiseless					109
	The broad-leaved Arrow-head					109
	To a Maryland editor, 1943					110
	Summer's away, I traded my chicks for trees					110
	She was a mourner too. Now she's gone					111
	Seven years a charming woman wore					111
	The land of four o'clocks is here					111
	Just before she died					112
	Brought the enemy down					112
	Nothing nourishing					112
	The number of Britons killed					113
	Old Hamilton hailed the man from the grocery store					113
	Motor cars					113
	Allied Convoy/Reaches Russia					114
	Depression years					114
	Coopered at Fish Creek					114
	A working man appeared in the street					115
	Woman with Umbrella					115
	Automobile Accident					116
	Look, the woods, the sky, our home					116
	Coming out of Sleep					116
	Voyageurs					117
	I walked/from Chicago to Big Bull Falls (Wausau)					117
	See the girls in shorts on their bicycles					118
	When Johnny (Chapman) Appleseed					118
	Tell me a story about the war					118
	Poet Percival said: I struck a lode					119
	Terrible things coming up					119
	1937					120
	Their apples fall down					120
	The government men said Don't plant wheat					121
	New!					125
	(L.Z.)					125
	Chimney Sweep					125
	Swept snow, Li Po					126
	Regards to Mr. Glover					126
	Sunday's motor-cars					127
	Let's play a game					127
	Lugubre for a child					128
	Could You Be Right					129
	Look close					129
	If I were a bird					130
	High, lovely, light					131
	Letter from Paul					132
	Two old men					132
	Paul, hello					133
	So this was I					133
	Am I real way out in space					134
	On a row of cabins/next my home					134
	In moonlight lies					135
	The cabin door flew open					135
	The elegant office girl					136
	When brown folk lived a distance					136
	Paul					137
	What bird would light					137
	Nearly landless and on the way to water					138
	Understand me, dead is nothing					138
	How bright you'll find young people					139
	If he is of constant depth					140
	The young ones go away to school					140
	Some have chimes					141
	O Tannenbaum					141
	In the great snowfall before the bomb					142
	Not all that's heard is music. We leave					143
	Tell me a story about the war					144
	Laval, Pomeret, Petain					144
	Thure Kumlien					145
	Shut up in woods					145
	Your father to me in your eighth summer					146
	To Paul now old enough to read					146
	What horror to awake at night					147
	Sorrow moves in wide waves					148
	Jesse James and his brother Frank					148
	May you have lumps in your mashed potatoes					149
	Old Mother turns blue and from us					149
	I hear the weather					150
	Dead					150
	Can knowledge be conveyed that isn't felt?					150
	Ten o'clock					151
	Adirondack Summer					151
	The slip of a girl-announcer					152
	Now go to the party					152
	Dear Paul					153
	My father said "I remember"					154
	You know, he said, they used to make					154
	He built four houses					155
	In Europe they grow a new bean while here					155
	Paul/when the leaves					156
	I've been away from poetry					157
	I am sick with the Time's buying sickness					157
	The death of my poor father					157
	To Aeneas who closed his piano					158
	My friend the black and white collie					159
	"Oh ivy green"					159
	As I shook the dust					160
	They live a cool distance					160
	Violin Debut					161
	Horse, hello					162
	Energy glows at the lips -					162
	Hi, Hot-and-Humid					163
	Woman in middle life					163
	We physicians watch the juices rise					163
	1937					164
	European Travel/(Nazi New Order)					165
	Depression years					165
	So you're married, young man					165
	She grew where every spring					166
	I sit in my own house					167
	On hearing/the wood pewee					167
	Along the river					168
	He moved in light					168
	Keen and lovely man moved as in a dance					169
	He lived - childhood sumnmers					169
	I rose from marsh mud					170
	Dear Mona, Mary and all					171
	Don't tell me property is sacred!					172
	Wartime					172
	February almost March bites the cold					173
	People, people -					173
	July, waxwings					174
	Old man who seined					174
	Mother is dead					174
	The graves					175
	Kepler					175
	Bonpland					176
	Happy New Year					176
	Linnaeus in Lapland					181
	Fog-thick morning -					181
	Hear					181
	Cricket-song -					182
	Musical Toys					182
	I fear this war					183
	Van Gogh could see					183
	No matter where you are					183
	How white the gulls					184
	Springtime's wide					184
	White					184
	Dusk -					185
	Beautiful girl -					185
	New-sawed					185
	My friend tree					186
	In Leonardo's light					189
	You are my friend -					189
	Come In					190
	The men leave the car					190
	The wild and wavy event					191
	Florida					192
	My life is hung up					193
	Easter					193
	Get a load					194
	Poet's work					194
	Property is poverty -					194
	Now in one year					195
	River-marsh-drowse					195
	Club 26					196
	To foreclose					197
	To my small/electric pump					197
	T. E. Lawrence					198
	As I paint the street					198
	Art Center					199
	Consider at the outset					200
	Ah your face					200
	Alcoholic dream					200
	To my pres-/sure pump					201
	Laundromat					202
	March					202
	Something in the water					202
	Santayana's					203
	If only my friend					203
	Frog noise/suddenly stops					203
	In the transcendence					204
	To whom					204
	Margaret Fuller					205
	Watching dan-/cers on skates					205
	Hospital Kitchen					205
	Chicory flower/on campus					206
	Fall ("Early morning corn")					206
	LZ's					206
	Letter from lan					207
	Some float off on chocolate bars					207
	I knew a clean man					208
	Scythe					209
	So he said/on radio					209
	I visit/the graves					210
	For best work					210
	The obliteration					211
	Spring					211
	The park/"a darling walk/for the mind"					212
	Who was Mary Shelley?					212
	Wild strawberries					213
	Autumn					217
	Last night the trash barrel					217
	The boy tossed the news					217
	Popcorn-can cover					218
	Truth					218
	Lights, lifts					218
	O late fall					219
	Churchill's Death					219
	The Badlands					220
	A student					220
	Bird singing					221
	Easter Greeting					221
	City Talk					222
	As praiseworthy					223
	They've lost their leaves					223
	My mother saw the green tree toad					223
	Tradition					224
	Autumn Night					225
	Sky					225
	Nothing to speak of					226
	Swedenborg					226
	I lost you to water, summer					227
	I married					228
	You see here					228
	Your erudition					229
	Alone					229
	Why can't I be happy					230
	And what you liked					230
	Cleaned all surfaces					231
	Young in Fall I said: the birds					231
	In every part of every living thing					232
	Iron the common element of earth					232
	Radisson					232
	(The long/canoes)					233
	Through all this granite land					233
	And at the blue ice superior spot					233
	Joliet					234
	Ruby of corundum					234
	Wild Pigeon					235
	Schoolcraft left the Soo - canoes					235
	Inland then					236
	The smooth black stone					236
	I'm sorry to have missed					237
	My Life by Water					237
	Museum					238
	Far reach					239
	TV					239
	We are what the seas					240
	What cause have you					240
	Stone					240
	The eye					241
	For best work					242
	Smile					242
	Fall ("We must pull")					242
	Years					243
	Unsurpassed in beauty					243
	Human bean					243
	High class human					244
	Ah your face					244
	Sewing a dress					245
	I walked/on New Year's Day					245
	J. F. Kennedy after/the Bay of Pigs					246
	Mergansers					246
	"Shelter"					246
	Wintergreen Ridge					247
	Paean to Place					261
	Alliance					270
	Basho					270
	The man of law					271
	Not all harsh sounds displease -					271
	Jefferson and Adams					271
	Katharine Anne					273
	War					273
	Thomas Jefferson					275
	The Ballad of Basil					282
	Wilderness					283
	Consider					283
	Otherwise					284
	Nursery Rhyme					285
	Three Americans					285
	Blue and white					286
	The soil is poor					286
	Michelangelo					287
	Wallace Stevens					287
	Sleep's dream					287
	Waded, watched, warbled					288
	Illustrated night clock's					288
	Honest					288
	Night					289
	LZ					289
	Peace					290
	Thomas Jefferson Inside					291
	Foreclosure					291
	His Carpets Flowered					292
	Darwin					295
	Uncle					305
	Switchboard Girl					335
	The evening's automobiles ...					338
	As I Lay Dying					343
	from Taste and Tenderness					361
	Notes					365
	Contents Lists That Differ from Order in This Volume					459
	Index of Titles or First Lines					467

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