Table of Contents
Introduction
1 Carp-Seiner's Daughter: 1903-1918
2 Graduation: 1919-1922
3 Beloit College: 1922-1924
4 Searching: 1924-1930
5 Finding: 1931-1933
6 Zukofsky: 1933-1935
7 Loss: 1935-1939
8 Folk Magic: 1936-1946
9 Federal Writer's Project: 1938-1942
10 New Goose: 1943-1946
11 Changes: 1947-1951
12 For Paul: 1951-1953
13 Aeneas: 1953-1955
14 Blows: 1955-1959
15 Lorine in Love: 1959-1961
16 My Friend Tree: 1961-1962
17 Alone Again: 1962-1963
18 Little Lorie, Happy at Last?
19 Milwaukee: 1963-1964
20 Husband to a Poet: 1964-1965
21 An End, an Experiment: 1965-1966
22 North Central: 1966-1967
23 Full Flood: 1967-1969
24 The Urgent Wave: 1969-1970
Afterword
Appendix: Niedecker or Neidecker, No Longer the Question
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index