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Lorine Niedecker<\/p>\n

Visited her in March (1970)\u2014rumors: total recluse \u2014 something wrong with her? Mental breakdown?\u2014ordinary cleaning woman in mental hospital\u2014so, trepidation\u2014fears groundless \/ \u201cmoment I walked in her door, she was opposite of recluse: outgoing, of good cheer, very lively. Time flew. Delightful afternoon\u2014much in common with Al. \u2014House only a few steps from water, ground-level (no basement or steps) so small, if three of us had called on her instead of two, we cdn\u2019t have moved past each other<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

— from Carl Rakosi’s manuscript collection at UC-San Diego.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lorine Niedecker Visited her in March (1970)\u2014rumors: total recluse \u2014 something wrong with her? Mental breakdown?\u2014ordinary cleaning woman in mental hospital\u2014so, trepidation\u2014fears groundless \/ \u201cmoment I walked in her door, she was opposite of recluse: outgoing, of good cheer, very lively. Time flew. Delightful afternoon\u2014much in common with Al. \u2014House only a few steps from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[87],"tags":[146,84,89],"class_list":["post-2324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-objectivists","tag-carl-rakosi","tag-lorine-niedecker","tag-objectivists"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Steel Wagstaff","author_link":"https:\/\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/author\/steel\/"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","featured_image_src_square":null,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd6z5D-Bu","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2318,"url":"https:\/\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/essay-on-lorine-niedecker\/","url_meta":{"origin":2324,"position":0},"title":"Essay on Lorine Niedecker for Edge Effects","author":"Steel Wagstaff","date":"June 3, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"A few weeks ago, I was invited\u00a0to write a short essay for the Edge Effects blog. 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