Lorine Niedecker: “Foreclosure”
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The late Wisconsin poet Lorine Niedecker reads her poem "Foreclosure" in a 1970 recording.
The late Wisconsin poet Lorine Niedecker reads her poem "Foreclosure" in a 1970 audio recording made by the poet Cid Corman at Niedecker's home on Blackhawk Island in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin. The poem is accompanied by contemporary footage from Blackhawk Island.
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Lorine Niedecker: “Foreclosure”
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The late Wisconsin poet Lorine Niedecker reads her poem "Foreclosure" in a 1970 audio recording made by the poet Cid Corman at Niedecker's home on Blackhawk Island in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin. The poem is accompanied by contemporary footage from Blackhawk Island.
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- Lorine Niedecker: "Foreclosure."
Tell em to take my bare walls down my cement abutments their parties thereof and clause of claws Leave me the land Scratch out: the land May prose and property both die out and leave me peace [gentle music]
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