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The material had been assembled edited and translated from Yiddish by his son Alexander Ashendorf, from various sources, including: In a Big Unknown City, Monday Morning, Greetings from Far, Woe and wander, Last writings, and some material from the family archive and ‘never before’ published manuscripts.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"ASZEN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40319263866974,"sku":"9781793078780","price":9.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1025\/1057\/files\/collectedpoems.jpg?v=1740675291"},{"product_id":"the-stray-dog-cabaret-a-book-of-russian-poems-by-paul-schmidt","title":"The Stray Dog Cabaret: A Book of Russian Poems by Paul Schmidt","description":"\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA master anthology of Russia’s most important poetry, newly collected and never before published in English\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn the years before the 1917 Russian Revolution, the Stray Dog cabaret in St. Petersburg was the haunt of poets, artists, and musicians, a place to meet, drink, read, brawl, celebrate, and stage performances of all kinds. It has since become a symbol of the extraordinary literary ferment of that time. It was then that Alexander Blok composed his apocalyptic sequence “Twelve”; that the futurists Velimir Khlebnikov and Vladimir Mayakovsky exploded language into bold new forms; that the lapidary lyrics of Osip Mandelstam and plangent love poems of Anna Akhmatova saw the light; that the electrifying Marina Tsvetaeva stunned and dazzled everyone. Boris Pasternak was also of this company, putting together his great youthful hymn to nature, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMy Sister, Life\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e It was a transforming moment—not just for Russian but for world poetry—and a short-lived one. 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The poet Alfred Kreymbourg, in a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoetry Magazine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe New York Evening Post\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Ghetto, and Other Poems, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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. 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