Unsentimental deprivation ...

... Spare, enigmatic Lorine Niedecker | TLS. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Early commentators assumed that the poems Niedecker now began to publish – intricately sounded, rigorously condensed, elliptical, and often cruelly candid and sardonic lyrics – were written under the sign of Objectivism. But however much Zukofsky opened New York doors to Niedecker, and however many artists and poets she met through him, her own signature style, with its early amalgam of Imagism and Surrealism, had already been formed. And indeed, as Eliot Weinberger recently noted in his essay for the Willis collection, “if one knew no biographical details, it would be difficult to put [Niedecker and Zukofsky] together as poets”.