ABOUT LORINE NIEDECKER
American Objectivist poet who addressed personal subject matter in works such as My Life by Water and New Goose. Her early works include elements of surrealism; her later poems contain political and social themes.
She grew up in rural Wisconsin and studied at Beloit College until her father was unable to afford her tuition.
She wrote a series of poems in honor of the son of her literary mentor Louis Zukofsky . Unfortunately, Zukofsky thought the poems were too personal and refused to let her publish them.
She married Frank Hartwig in 1928, but Depression-era financial difficulties led to the couple's 1930 separation.
She was the only female representative of the Objectivist poets, a literary group that included William Carlos Williams .
