Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Niedecker, Lorine
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
- Niedecker, Lorine, 1903-1970
Other form(s) of name
- Lorine Niedecker
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Description area
Dates of existence
1903-1970
History
Lorine Niedecker was a poet who lived most of her life on Rock River in Wisconsin. She worked many odd jobs through the years and married twice, starting to write verse in the 1930's after attending Beloit College. She moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with her second husband and died of a stroke in 1970. Louis Zukofsky was an influence on her poetry, the two of them having corresponded in the 1930's. She had a number of poems published in books and magazines, including some by Jonathan Williams and Cid Corman. Merton publishes some of her poems in the first volume of «Monks Pond». (Source: Monks Pond, p. 62.)