Lake Superior: Lorine Niedecker's Poem and Journal Along with Other Sources, Documents, and Readings, Paperback

Lake Superior is a compilation of writings around Lorine Niedecker's poem of the same title--strata that inform the poem's ecological and historical resonance. Lorine Niedecker was a major American poet often connected with the Objectivists. She lived in Wisconsin from 1903 to 1970. From -Lake Superior Country-: Every bit of you is a bit of the earth . . .So--here we go. Maybe as rocks and I pass each other I could say how-do-you-do to an agate. -Niedecker is] one of the most important and original poets of this past century.---August Kleinzahler, London Review of Books Table of Contents: -Lake Superior- by Lorine Niedecker Lake Superior Country, a journal by Lorine Niedecker-Niedecker and the Evolutional Sublime- by Douglas Crase Three Letters from Lorine Niedecker to Cid Corman Excerpt from Back Roads to Far Towns by Basho and trans. by Cid Corman-Tour 14A- from Wisconsin, A Guide to the Badger State-On a Monument to the Pigeon- by Aldo Leopold Excerpt from the writings of Pierre Esprit Radisson Excerpt from the writings of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft