The Granite Pail: The Selected Poems of Lorine Niedecker
Autor Lorine Niedeckeren Limba Engleză Paperback – aug 2025
This edition was published in 1996 by Gnomon Press.
The Granite Pail is a masterful collection that showcases the poetic brilliance of one of America’s most underappreciated modernist poets. Known for its minimalist style and deep connection to the natural world, Niedecker’s work combines precision with emotional depth in poems that resonate long after they are read.
This volume brings together some of Niedecker’s finest poetry, illustrating her gift for capturing profound truths in the simplest of forms. With themes ranging from the intimate and domestic to the universal and ecological, her poems reflect a life deeply rooted in the landscapes of rural Wisconsin. From meditations on the passage of time to lyrical explorations of nature, The Granite Pail reveals the interplay between solitude, creativity, and the human condition.
Edited and introduced by Cid Corman, a champion of Niedecker’s work, the collection highlights her unique voice within the Objectivist tradition and her ability to create moments of beauty and insight with remarkable economy. This edition also provides context for her life and influences, shedding light on her artistic evolution and the lasting significance of her poetry.
For both longtime admirers and those new to Niedecker’s work, The Granite Pail offers an essential glimpse into the mind of a poet whose quiet brilliance continues to inspire readers and writers alike.
The Granite Pail is a masterful collection that showcases the poetic brilliance of one of America’s most underappreciated modernist poets. Known for its minimalist style and deep connection to the natural world, Niedecker’s work combines precision with emotional depth in poems that resonate long after they are read.
This volume brings together some of Niedecker’s finest poetry, illustrating her gift for capturing profound truths in the simplest of forms. With themes ranging from the intimate and domestic to the universal and ecological, her poems reflect a life deeply rooted in the landscapes of rural Wisconsin. From meditations on the passage of time to lyrical explorations of nature, The Granite Pail reveals the interplay between solitude, creativity, and the human condition.
Edited and introduced by Cid Corman, a champion of Niedecker’s work, the collection highlights her unique voice within the Objectivist tradition and her ability to create moments of beauty and insight with remarkable economy. This edition also provides context for her life and influences, shedding light on her artistic evolution and the lasting significance of her poetry.
For both longtime admirers and those new to Niedecker’s work, The Granite Pail offers an essential glimpse into the mind of a poet whose quiet brilliance continues to inspire readers and writers alike.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780917788611
ISBN-10: 0917788613
Pagini: 158
Dimensiuni: 159 x 241 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Ohio University Press
Colecția Gnomon Press
ISBN-10: 0917788613
Pagini: 158
Dimensiuni: 159 x 241 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Ohio University Press
Colecția Gnomon Press
Recenzii
"The book is a good one in the way I want books of poems to be good. It is good poetry. It is difficult and warm. It has life to it." —William Carlos Williams
"One of the finest American poets of all, besides being easily the finest female American poet. . . . Lorine Niedecker never fails; whatever she writes is excellent." —Basil Bunting
"I like these poems because first they attach an undistractable clarity to the word, and then because they are unabashed enough to weld that word to a freely sought, beautifully random instance—that instance being the only thing place and its content can be: the catch in the seine." —Edward Dorn
"One's first impulse, after awe, on reading The Granite Pail is a double dose of shame: shame at not being more familiar with her work; shame at ever having complained of the narrowness of one's life." —Carolyn Kizer
"We are in the presence of a poet whose peers are the Lady Ono Komachi and Sappho. Few others come to mind.' —Jonathan Williams
Notă biografică
Lorine Niedecker (1903–1970) was an innovative American poet associated with the Objectivist movement. Born in rural Wisconsin, she spent much of her life on Blackhawk Island, where the natural environment profoundly influenced her work. Niedecker’s poetry is celebrated for its spare, condensed style, blending personal reflection with observations of nature and daily life. Her writing often explores themes of isolation, connection, and the rhythms of the natural world. Though underappreciated during her lifetime, her work has since gained recognition for its quiet intensity and unique voice in twentieth-century American poetry.
Cuprins
I. MY FRIEND TREE
There's a better shine
My friend tree
Along the river
Black Hawk held
Remember my little granite pail
The museum man
Mr. Van Ess
Don't shoot the rail
Asa Gray
The clothesline post
Well, spring
Old man who seined
You are my friend
Paul
Old Mother
What horror
He lived-childhood summers
I knew a clean man
In the great snowfall
Swept snow, Li Po
The graves
I rose from marsh mud
My mother saw the green tree toad
I am sick with the Time's
I lost you to water, summer
Hear
How white the gulls
New-sawed
Popcorn-can cover
Lights, lifts
O late fall
Springtime's wide July, waxwings People, people 34 35
Energy glows at the lips
1937
Depression Years
Keen and lovely man
Who was Mary Shelley
I've been away from poetry
II. NORTH CENTRAL
My life is hung up
Easter
Get a load
Now in one year
Dusk
Something in the water
The wild and wavy event
Linnaeus in Lapland
Club 26
In Leonardo's light
The men leave the car
As praiseworthy
Watching dancers on skates
As I paint the street
Some float off
Poet's work
To my pressure pump
Alcoholic dream
Consider at the outset
LAKE SUPERIOR
TRACES OF LIVING THINGS
MY LIFE BY WATER
PAEAN TO PLACE
WINTERGREEN RIDGE
III. HARPSICHORD & SALT FISH
Tradition
Easter Greeting
Laundromat
The radio talk
I married
Your erudition
THOMAS JEFFERSON
NURSERY RHYME
THREE AMERICANS
THOMAS JEFFERSON INSIDE
FORECLOSURE
Hrs CARPETS FLOWERED
DARWIN
There's a better shine
My friend tree
Along the river
Black Hawk held
Remember my little granite pail
The museum man
Mr. Van Ess
Don't shoot the rail
Asa Gray
The clothesline post
Well, spring
Old man who seined
You are my friend
Paul
Old Mother
What horror
He lived-childhood summers
I knew a clean man
In the great snowfall
Swept snow, Li Po
The graves
I rose from marsh mud
My mother saw the green tree toad
I am sick with the Time's
I lost you to water, summer
Hear
How white the gulls
New-sawed
Popcorn-can cover
Lights, lifts
O late fall
Springtime's wide July, waxwings People, people 34 35
Energy glows at the lips
1937
Depression Years
Keen and lovely man
Who was Mary Shelley
I've been away from poetry
II. NORTH CENTRAL
My life is hung up
Easter
Get a load
Now in one year
Dusk
Something in the water
The wild and wavy event
Linnaeus in Lapland
Club 26
In Leonardo's light
The men leave the car
As praiseworthy
Watching dancers on skates
As I paint the street
Some float off
Poet's work
To my pressure pump
Alcoholic dream
Consider at the outset
LAKE SUPERIOR
TRACES OF LIVING THINGS
MY LIFE BY WATER
PAEAN TO PLACE
WINTERGREEN RIDGE
III. HARPSICHORD & SALT FISH
Tradition
Easter Greeting
Laundromat
The radio talk
I married
Your erudition
THOMAS JEFFERSON
NURSERY RHYME
THREE AMERICANS
THOMAS JEFFERSON INSIDE
FORECLOSURE
Hrs CARPETS FLOWERED
DARWIN
Descriere
Published in 1996 by Gnomon Press, this edition highlights Lorine Niedecker’s minimalist poetry and deep connection to nature. The collection captures Niedecker's ability to convey profound truths with emotional depth, offering insights into her artistic evolution and enduring influence within the Objectivist tradition.