Ridge / Kramer The Ghetto, and Other Poems

An Annotated Edition
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-5315-0093-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

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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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ridge, Lola

Kramer, Lawrence

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Ridge Lola:
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.Kramer Lawrence:
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).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).