Lorine Niedecker: from New Goose. Edited by Jenny Penberthy.

Forthcoming from Listening Chamber Press, Berkeley in 2002.
The collection includes all of Niedecker's New Goose poems written between 1936 and 1944.

*

For sun and moon and radio
farmers pay dearly;
their natural resource: turn
the world off early.

                 * 
                 
Hop press 
       and conveyor for a hearse, 
Newall Carpenter Senior's 
       two patented works. 
         . . . 
                 
Kilbourne. Eighteen sixty-eight. 
Twelve hundred women and boys hopped. 
When the market raced down to a dime a pound 
from sixty-five cents, planters who'd staked 
all they had, stopped. 

*

Old Hamilton hailed the man from the grocery store:
What's today, Friday? Thursday! Oh,
nothing till tomorrow.

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