Collected Works De sonnetten aan Orpheus Inua Ellams

Inua Ellams

all in the firm hold of song

Tranströmer’s poems act as a telephoto lens

giving room to states of flux and flow in the body

Collected Works De sonnetten aan Orpheus Inua EllamsLorine Niedecker Niedecker's lyric voice is one of the most subtle and sensuous of the twentieth century. Her ear is constantly alive to sounds of nature, oddities of vernacular speech, textures of vowels and consonants. Often compared to Emily Dickinson, Niedecker writes a poetry of wit and emotion, cosmopolitan experimentation and down home American speech. This much anticipated volume presents all of Niedecker's surviving poetry, plays, and