The most compelling thing about lorine Niedecker’s poetry is,
that she always writes about her home town.
She wrote a lot of poems In the comfort of her cabin home on Black Hawk
Island. I would like to quote lines from one of Lorine’s poems called “ I Lost
You To Water Summer”.
She says “when the young girls swim to the hot shore” then,
goes on to say “now to is cold” meaning it is now winter time. This reminds me
of my home town, Milwaukee WI. So many times I’ve seen the summer time being
killed by fall and winter.
In the summer time everyone goes to the lake, to get away
from the heat. It’s fun to watch the people swim and have fun. Then the winter
comes and swimmers turn into ice skaters. There is snow everywhere but, we
still find a way to have fun even In the cold.
In many poems she talks about her rural surroundings. The river, the animals, the trees are things
that are all a part of her when she is writing. She used the sights, the sounds, and the smells around her
to give the reader a vision of her home on Black Hawk Island.
