Filed in Poetry on March 3, 2006 |

Poet’s Work
 
Grandfather
advised me:
Learn a trade

I learned

to sit at desk

and condense
No layoff
from this

condensery
–Lorine Niedecker, 1964
From the forthcoming Oxford Book of American Poetry.

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  1. language hat said :

    Mar 5, 2006

    I’m delighted to see Niedecker will be represented; she’s one of my favorite American poets, and she’s far too little known. (And I particularly like that little gem.)

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