A Wisconsin native, Lorine Niedecker wasn't well known as a poet during her lifetime, only praised by a relatively small literary circle, including Zukofsky, William Carlos Williams, Robert Creeley, Denise Levertov, and Allen Ginsberg. Since her death, much more of her surviving writings have been published, including a comprehensive edition of collected works and two volumes of correspondence. Through author Margot Peters’s compelling biography, readers will discover Lorine Niedecker as a poet of spare and brilliant verse and a woman whose talent and grit carried her through periods of desperation and despair.

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