Term: Niedecker, Lorine (1903-1970)(Historic Marker Erected 1991)
Definition:
Blackhawk Island Rd., Town of Sumner, near Fort Atkinson, Jefferson County
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 in the house near the river from 1947-70
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
.
Nobody, nothing than time
ever gave me unless light
greater thing and silence
which if intense
makes sound
[Source: Source: McBride, Sarah Davis. History Just Ahead (Madison:WHS, 1999).]
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