Passwords : Sandra Alcosser and Rachel Blau DuPlessis on Lorine Niedecker

Poet Lorine Niedecker (1903–1970) lived most of her life on Blackhawk Island in rural Wisconsin. However, she was not isolated from the avant-garde poetry practices of her time. A life-long correspondent of Louis Zukofsky’s, Niedecker established her own “condensory” of poetic language.