Lola Ridge

The Ghetto, and Other Poems

An Annotated Edition
Herausgeber: Kramer, Lawrence

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Produktbeschreibung

"A terrific poet, in both senses of the word. . . . Like Blake, she can evoke innocence and experience in a way that blurs the ambiguous boundary between them."--Robert Pinsky "This edition, aided by reader-friendly notes, will bring significant attention to these important poems and Ridge's world."--Susan Stewart At last recovered in this enriching annotated edition, this important but neglected work of American modernism offers a unique poetic encounter with the Jewish communities in New York's Lower East Side. Long forgotten on account of her gender and left-wing politics, Lola Ridge is finally being rediscovered and read alongside such celebrated contemporaries as Hart Crane, William Carlos Williams, and Marianne Moore--all of whom knew her and admired her work. In her time Ridge was considered one of America's leading poets, but after her death in 1941 she and her work effectively disappeared for the next seventy-five years. Yet The Ghetto and Other Poems is a key work of American modernism. The long title poem is a detailed and sympathetic account of life in the Jewish Ghetto of New York's Lower East Side, with particular emphasis on the struggles and resilience of women. Subsequent sections delve further into city life, and immigrant experience, and the labor movement. This critical edition seeks to recover the attention The Ghetto, and Other Poems lost after Ridge's death. The poems in the volume are as aesthetically strong as they are historically revealing. Their language combines strength and directness with startling metaphors, and their form embraces both panoramic sweep and lyrical intensity. Lola Ridge (1873, Dublin-1941, Brooklyn) was a poet and editor active in many radical causes and in avant-garde literary circles in New York in the decades between the world wars. Lawrence Kramer is Distinguished Professor of English and Music at Fordham University.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 201mm x 124mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 181g
• ISBN-13: 9781531500900
• ISBN-10: 1531500900
• Artikelnr.: 63334937

Autorenporträt

Lola Ridge (Author) Lola Ridge (1873, Dublin-1941, Brooklyn) was a poet and editor active in many radical causes and in avant-garde literary circles in New York in the decades before the world wars. She published five volumes of poetry between 1918 and 1935 and served as an editor at two leading modernist journals, The Broom and Others. Two (unannotated) collections of her early poetry have been published in recent years, edited by Daniel Tobin. Lawrence Kramer (Edited By) Lawrence Kramer is Distinguished Professor of English and Music at Fordham University. He is the author of fifteen books, as well as editor of two previous annotated editions of poetry: Walt Whitman's Drum-Taps: The Complete 1865 Edition (NYRB, 2015) and Hart Crane's 'The Bridge': An Annotated Edition (Fordham, 2011).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction xi
The Ghetto
To the American People 3
The Ghetto 5
Manhattan Lights
Manhattan 35
Broadway 37
Flotsam 39
Spring 43
Bowery Afternoon 45
Promenade 46
The Fog 48
Faces 49
Labor
Debris 55
Dedication 56
The Song of Iron 57
Frank Little at Calvary 63
Spires 68
The Legion of Iron 69
Fuel 71
A Toast 72
Accidentals
"The Everlasting Return" 77
Palestine 81
The Song 82
To the Others 83
Babel 84
The Fiddler 85
Dawn Wind 86
North Wind 88
The Destroyer 89
Lullaby 90
The Foundling 92
The Woman with Jewels 93
Submerged 95
Art and Life 96
Brooklyn Bridge 97
Dreams 98
The Fire 99
A Memory 100
The Edge 101
The Garden 103
Under-Song 105
A Worn Rose 107
Iron Wine 108
Dispossessed 109
The Star 111
The Tidings 112
Appendix: The New Republic Version of "The Ghetto" 115
References 133