Lorine Niedecker (1903 - 1970)


A selective bibliography of open access articles on Lorine Niedecker, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Authors of Web Sites


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General Articles

Beam, Jeffery. "Old Sunflower, You Bowed to No One" in Oyster Boy Review, 17 (Fall 2003)

Breslin, Glenna. "Between Niedecker and Zukofsky, An Excerpt," a short article on the letters exchanged between Lorine Niedecker and Louis Zukofsky, in HOW(ever), Vol 2, No. 1 (November, 1984) (removed from http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/however/print_archive/alerts1184.html)

Cox, Kenneth. Lorine Niedecker’s Poetry, in Jacket Magazine 28 (Oct. 2005)

Dahlen, Beverly. "Notes On Reading Lorine Niedecker," a brief article in How(ever) Vol 1, No. 1 (May, 1983) (removed from http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/however/print_archive/alerts1184.html)

DeNiro, Alan. A brief introduction to Lorine Niedecker's work from poet Alan DeNiro

Girardi, Judith S. A web site on Lorine Niedecker by Professor Girardi, with sections on Lorine Niedecker's biography, bibliography, themes, and teaching Niedecker

Middleton, Peter. Lorine Niedecker's "Folk Base" and Her Challenge to the American Avant-Garde, in Journal of American Studies 31.2 (1997)

Penberthy, Jenny, ed. "Introduction" to Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works, in Jacket Magazine 18 (August 2002)

Penberthy, Jenny, ed. Jane Augustine reviews Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works. In Jacket Magazine 21 (Feb. 2003)

Penberthy, Jenny. "A little too little: Re-reading Lorine Niedecker," On whether Lorine Niedecker should be considered an Objectivist. In How2, Vol. 1, No. 1 (March 1999) (removed from http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/however/print_archive/alerts1184.html)

Volkman, Karen. "Green, Prickly Humanity," a review of Collected Works of Lorine Niedecker. Edited by Jenny Penberthy. (Univ. of Calif. Press). In Boston Review Dec2002/Jan2003

An introduction to Lorine Niedecker with excerpts of reputable critical discussions of some poems, from the Modern American Poetry Site (Univ. of Illinois)

An introduction to the poet Lorine Niedecker from the Academy of American Poets


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