The Ghetto: And Other Poems. - Couverture souple

Ridge, Lola

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1444400908 ISBN 13 : 9781444400908

Editeur : Aeterna, 2026

Synopsis

The Ghetto, and Other Poems captures the restless pulse of early twentieth-century New York through the fierce, compassionate vision of Lola Ridge. At the collection’s centre stands “The Ghetto,” an unforgettable portrait of immigrant life on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, where crowded tenements, factory labour, political argument, faith, poverty, and hope press against one another in the summer heat. Ridge writes with vivid modernist energy, transforming streets, machines, bridges, fog, crowds, and iron into living forces. Her poems move from Hester Street and Broadway to workers, radicals, mothers, children, the dispossessed, and the forgotten, finding beauty without disguising hardship. Industrial power and human vulnerability repeatedly collide, while questions of justice, freedom, exile, identity, and belonging run through the collection. Yet these poems are more than documents of social struggle. They are charged with colour, rhythm, tenderness, anger, and startling imagery. Ridge sees the city as both prison and possibility: harsh, mechanical, teeming, and alive. Its urgency still speaks wherever inequality and aspiration share crowded streets. Bold, socially conscious, and intensely visual, The Ghetto, and Other Poems remains a compelling work of American poetry, giving lyrical voice to lives pushed toward the margins while celebrating their endurance, rebellion, dignity, and dreams.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Aeterna
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1444400908
• ISBN 13: 9781444400908
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 82
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible