Lorine Niedecker died in 1975. Lorine Niedecker was a poet and author. She was also a community activist and a writer of socially conscious poetry. Niedecker's work is known for its emphasis on the beauty of nature and for its strong feminist perspective, which she believed reflected the angle from which she viewed the world
Her work has been published in journals such as Poetry, The Nation, The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, and The Southern Review, and in anthologies such as Take This Hammer: New Poems by African-American Women and The Selected Poems of Lorine Niedecker.
I was the solitary plovera pencil for a wing-bone From the secret notes I must tiltupon the pressureexecute and adjust In us sea-air rhythm" We live by the urgent waveof the verseLorine Niedecker
I rose from marsh mudalgae, equisetum, willows, sweet green, noisybirds and frogs.Lorine Niedecker
