Lorine Niedecker - Black Hawk Island, WI
Posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member onfire4jesus
N 42° 53.893 W 088° 53.702
16T E 345282 N 4751254
Lorine Niedecker (1903-70) lived on Black Hawk Island most of her life and celebrated the sights and sounds of this place in poems ranked among the 20th century's finest. This marker is located on Blackhawk Island Rd near Ft. Atkinson, WI.
Waymark Code: WM2MK6
Location: Wisconsin, United States
Date Posted: 11/21/2007
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member tiki-4
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Fish    
  fowl  
      flood
  Water lily mud
My life
in the leaves and on water
My mother and I
    born
in swale and swamp and sworn
to water

Lorine Niedecker (1903-70) lived on Black Hawk Island most of her life and celebrated the sights and sounds of this place in poems ranked among the 20th century's finest. She lived first in the log-sided house and later the house near the river from 1947-70.

Erected 1991
Nobody, nothing   than time
 ever gave me    unless light
  greater thing     and silence
    which if intense
      makes sound
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