{"product_id":"the-ghetto-and-other-poems-an-annotated-edition-9781531500900","title":"The Ghetto, and Other Poems: An Annotated Edition","description":"\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 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLong 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExpertly 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lola Ridge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/17\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 170\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.4lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 4.90w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781531500900","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42713415319689,"sku":"9781531500900","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_e3fad7bd-389b-42d1-9a88-d75e44354934.jpg?v=1719610632","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-ghetto-and-other-poems-an-annotated-edition-9781531500900","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}