Friday, September 17, 2010

John Vachon/Lorine Niedecker: In the Condensery


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Image, Source: intermediary roll film

Barrels of powdered milk at condensary, Antigo, Wisconsin: photo by John Vachon, July 1941


Poet's work


Grandfather
...advised me:
......Learn a trade.


I learned
...to sit at desk
......and condense.


No layoff
...from this
......condensery.




Image, Source: intermediary roll film

Barrels of powdered milk at milk condensing plant, Antigo, Wisconsin: photo by John Vachon, August 1941



Lorine Niedecker: Poet's work from Origin II.6, 1963

Photos from Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress