After her death in 1970, Wisconsin poet Lorine Niedecker was described by British poet Basil Bunting as "the most interesting woman poet America has yet produced," yet most of her work is mired in obscurity. In a new biography, Margot Peters tells the story of Niedecker's tumultuous family life and upbringing isolated in rural Black Hawk Island in southwestern Wisconsin, and the profound effect it had on her poetry.
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Margot Peters, biographer, author of "Lorine Niedecker: A Poet’s Life"
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