Thursday, July 02, 2009




Belated follow-up to my Carol Watts post - Niedecker's over-writing and transformation of the platitudes of a fortnight-to-a-page calendar:

"The calendar itself is under siege. She teases the mnemonic device by linking her non-sequitur and baffling lines to the predictable chronology of a calendar. Earlier in 1934 she had written to Harriet Monroe about her desire to "discredit all journal method everywhere...." "

(cf. Penberthy, http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/niedecker/calendar.html)

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