The painting, Mona Lee Wilson, Vanished, 2001is a wash of reds, yellows and blues behind a woman who looks away from the viewer, her brown eyes filled with what might be described as
resignment. The text of a newspaper story about her disappearance is superimposed.
Niedecker's experiments in "vertical simultaneity" (with poems in three columns) predate John Ashbery's "Litany" by forty-five years, and one finds many non sequiturs of the Ashbery variety: "But that was before the library burned." Most striking among the early poems is the Penberthy-discovered sequence "Next Year or I Fly My Rounds Tempestuous," made from a platitude-laden 1935 calendar, each platitude pasted over with a piece of paper bearing a short Niedecker poem in ink (e.g., "I talk at the top / of my white /
resignment").
Empowered with an effective voice in the Chapter 11 proceedings, the
resignment and frustration experienced by trade creditors can be replaced by hope and satisfaction and an appreciation for a job well done by the creditors' committee.