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Lorine Niedecker
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PoemTalk #77, discussing Lorine Niedecker's "Foreclosure" and "Wilderness," January 16, 2014

Listen to the complete recording and read program notes for the episode at Jacket2.

Home Recording made by Cid Corman, November 1970 (from the Factory School Archive)

all poems first published posthumously in Harpsichord & Salt Fish (Pig Press, 1991)

  1. Thomas Jefferson (5:10): MP3
  2. The Ballad of Basil (0:26): MP3
  3. Wild Man (published as "Wilderness") (0:22): MP3
  4. Gerard Manley Hopkins (published as "Otherwise") (0:26): MP3
  5. Nursery Rhyme (0:17): MP3
  6. Three Americans (0:22): MP3
  7. Thomas Jefferson Inside (0:28): MP3
  8. Foreclosure (0:21): MP3
  9. His Carpets Flowered (2:20): MP3
  10. Darwin (3:52): MP3
  11. on writing poetry more frequently (0:54): MP3

Complete reading (15:56): MP3

"Wilderness" and "Foreclosure" are also featured on PoemTalk Episode 77.

Lorine Niedecker on PennSound Daily

These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. © 2011 The Estate of Lorine Niedecker. Used with permission of the Estate of Lorine Niedecker. Distributed by PennSound.