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Lorine Niedecker (1903 70) was a poet of extraordinary talent whose life and work were long enveloped in obscurity. After her death in 1970, poet Basil Bunting wrote that she was the most interesting woman poet America has yet produced . . . only beginning to be appreciated when she died. Her poverty and arduous family life, the isolated home in Wisconsin that provided rich imagery for her work, and her unusual acquaintances have all contributed to Niedecker s enigmatic reputation.
Margot Peters brings Lorine Niedecker s life out of the shadows in this first full biography of the poet....

Holding a doctorate in Victorian literature and women's studies, author Margot Peters has written seven biographies of famous writers and actors. Now, she turns her talents toward her own life with this powerful new memoir and looks into the past of one of the most important women in her young life: her grandmother.

As Peters chronicles a childhood full of abuse and invective, it becomes clear that Emma wasn't your typical grandmother. Peters spent her formative years living in Emma's house-knowing no possible escape from her grandmother's insults and punishments. The only way...