![]() ![]() The calendar-book, which she titled “Next Year Or I Fly My Rounds, Tempestuous,” remains among the collection of Zukofsky’s papers. “Wade all life / backwards to its / source which / runs too far / ahead,” the first page of January reads. Small stanzas written by Niedecker were pasted over the calendar’s original kitschy quotes of encouragement, the original just barely visible under her handwriting. It was a Christmas present for her friend, the poet Louis Zukofsky-27 pages long and about 4 by 5 inches, each page of the Favorite Sunlit Road Calendar marks two weeks of the coming year. ![]() In the last month of 1934, Lorine Niedecker was gluing a poem onto a disposable pocket calendar. ![]()
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