{"product_id":"the-ghetto-and-other-poems-an-annotated-edition-paperback-softback-9781531500900","title":"The Ghetto, and Other Poems; An Annotated Edition (Paperback \/ softback) 9781531500900","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Ghetto, and Other Poems\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAn Annotated Edition\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLola Ridge (Author), Lawrence Kramer (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781531500900\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 17 January 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e170 pages, 8 b\/w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e20.3 x 12.7 x 1.5 cm, 0.18 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAt 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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. Her book \u003ci\u003eThe Ghetto and Other Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, is a key work of American modernism, yet it has long, and unjustly, been neglected. When it was first published in 1918—in an abbreviated version in \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic, \u003c\/i\u003ethen in full by B. W. Huebsch five months later—\u003ci\u003eThe Ghetto and Other Poems\u003c\/i\u003e was a literary sensation. The poet Alfred Kreymbourg, in a \u003ci\u003ePoetry Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e review, praised \"The Ghetto\" for its \"sheer passion, deadly accuracy of versatile images, beauty, richness, and incisiveness of epithet, unfolding of adventures, portraiture of emotion and thought, pageantry of pushcarts—the whole lifting, falling, stumbling, mounting to a broad, symphonic rhythm.\" Louis Untermeyer, writing in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Evening Post\u003c\/i\u003e, found \"The Ghetto\" \"at once personal in its piercing sympathy and epical in its sweep. It is studded with images that are surprising and yet never strained or irrelevant; it glows with a color that is barbaric, exotic, and as local as Grand Street.\"\u003cbr\u003e 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. The subsequent section, \"Manhattan Lights,\" delves further into city life and immigrant experience, illuminating life in the Bowery. Other poems stem from Ridge's lifelong support of the American labor movement, and from her own experience as an immigrant. This critical edition seeks to recover the attention \u003ci\u003eThe Ghetto, and Other Poems, \u003c\/i\u003eand in particular the title poem, 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. \u003cbr\u003e Expertly edited and annotated by Lawrence Kramer, this first modern edition to reproduce the full 1918 publication of \u003ci\u003eThe Ghetto and Other Stories \u003c\/i\u003eoffers all the background and context needed for a rich, informed reading of Lola Ridge's masterpiece.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction \u003c\/b\u003e  xi\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Ghetto\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e To the American People   3\u003cbr\u003e The Ghetto   5\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eManhattan Lights\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Manhattan   35\u003cbr\u003e Broadway   37\u003cbr\u003e Flotsam   39\u003cbr\u003e Spring   43\u003cbr\u003e Bowery Afternoon   45\u003cbr\u003e Promenade   46\u003cbr\u003e The Fog   48\u003cbr\u003e Faces   49\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLabor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Debris   55\u003cbr\u003e Dedication   56\u003cbr\u003e The Song of Iron   57\u003cbr\u003e Frank Little at Calvary   63\u003cbr\u003e Spires   68\u003cbr\u003e The Legion of Iron   69\u003cbr\u003e Fuel   71\u003cbr\u003e A Toast   72\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAccidentals\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"The Everlasting Return\"   77\u003cbr\u003e Palestine   81\u003cbr\u003e The Song   82\u003cbr\u003e To the Others   83\u003cbr\u003e Babel   84\u003cbr\u003e The Fiddler   85\u003cbr\u003e Dawn Wind   86\u003cbr\u003e North Wind   88\u003cbr\u003e The Destroyer   89\u003cbr\u003e Lullaby   90\u003cbr\u003e The Foundling   92\u003cbr\u003e The Woman with Jewels   93\u003cbr\u003e Submerged   95\u003cbr\u003e Art and Life   96\u003cbr\u003e Brooklyn Bridge   97\u003cbr\u003e Dreams   98\u003cbr\u003e The Fire   99\u003cbr\u003e A Memory   100\u003cbr\u003e The Edge   101\u003cbr\u003e The Garden   103\u003cbr\u003e Under-Song   105\u003cbr\u003e A Worn Rose   107\u003cbr\u003e Iron Wine   108\u003cbr\u003e Dispossessed   109\u003cbr\u003e The Star   111\u003cbr\u003e The Tidings   112\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAppendix\u003c\/b\u003e: The \u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/i\u003e Version of \"The Ghetto\"   115\u003cbr\u003e References   133\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52744285192472,"sku":"9781531500900","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-ghetto-and-other-poems-an-annotated-edition-paperback-softback-9781531500900","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}