Passwords: Victoria Chang on Lorine Niedecker’s ‘Condensery’

In this talk, poet, editor, and critic Victoria Chang will revisit Lorine Niedecker’s Midwestern background and study one of her longer poems, “Paean to Place,” examining how water and nature informed Niedecker’s approach to story and narrative. Chang will discuss Niedecker’s ‘condensery’ style, reading the spareness of her poems not as absence, but as a new kind of presence.