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- Title
Lorine Niedecker's "Paean to Place" and Its Fusion Poetics.
- Authors
DuPlessis, Rachel Blau
- Abstract
This essay focuses on poet Lorine Niedecker's poem "Paean to Place." Niedecker wrote the poem in the mid-1960s when she was in her sixties. During this period, a trace of "projectivist" or Black Mountain poetics emerged in her thinking. Niedecker fused or synthesized the resources of several poetics, correcting one with the other. According to the author, Niedecker's implicit definition of the objectivist is poetry visual, directly represented, hard, unemotional, and bounded, not interested in subconscious forces, nor in experiments in planes of consciousness. It is suggested that readers must always factor in the element of her poetics that precisely honored her continuing attachment to objectivist ideals.
- Subjects
PAEAN to Place (Poem : Niedecker); NIEDECKER, Lorine, 1903-1970; POETICS; OBJECTIVISM (Philosophy); BLACK Mountain school (Group of poets)
- Publication
Contemporary Literature, 2005, Vol 46, Issue 3, p393
- ISSN
0010-7484
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1353/cli.2005.0029