<DIV><p>"Niedecker [is] one of the most important and original poets of this past century."?August Kleinzahler, <I>London Review of Books</I></p><p><I>Lake Superior</I> is a compilation of writings around Lorine Niedecker's poem of the same title?strata that inform the poem's ecological and historical resonance.</p><p><B>From "Lake Superior Country":</B></p><p><I>Every bit of you is a bit of the earth . . .<BR>So?here we go. Maybe as rocks and I pass each other I could say how-do-you-do to an agate.</I></p><p>Lorine Niedecker was a major American poet often connected with the Objectivists. She lived in Wisconsin from 1903 to 1970.</p></DIV>