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Lost & Found (2014)
Lost & Found is a collaborative chapbook with poems by Emilie Lindemann and images by Karen Laudon. 

In 1935, Wisconsin poet Lorine Niedecker discovered she was pregnant after an affair with fellow poet Louis Zukofsky. Zukofsky encouraged her to abort the pregnancy, and it was discovered that she had been carrying twins. According to Jerry Reisman, a friend of the couple, Niedecker "ached for the twins all the years of her life" and named them Lost & Found. 

Chapbooks are tied with strips of terrycloth fabric. Images in the chapbook are studies for sculptures included in the collaborative installation presented by Laudon and Lindemann at the 2014 Lorine Niedecker Wisconsin Poetry Festival in Fort Atkinson, WI. 

Limited copies of the chapbook are available. Please complete a contact form to request a copy.



PictureImage by Karen Laudon
Lost & Found take Fort Atkinson

Literary socialites with Birkin bags

            and designer pencils,

they swig all the grasshoppers at Club 26

then clink their vintage glasses.

[Ghost princesses of Black Hawk Island

don’t care about calories.]

            When it floods,

they bottle Genuine floodwater

from Lorine’s cabin

 to support

their reading habits.

They’ll hold court, cross-legged

at Café Carpe in little black dresses

and mother’s signature spectacles,

a hardcover propped on each lap

as if suspended

            by twin fishing lines.





--Poem first published in VerseWisconsin
 

 

 



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