Daniel Tobin - To the Many: Collected Early Works of Lola Ridge

Selected Works

"Blood Labors is an ebullient and ecclesiastical wonder, capturing more of creation, the uncreated, the recreated than any dozen books on a poetry shelf.... All told, Blood Labors dazzles with its brilliance.

The Stone in the Air

"In Tobin's able and reverent hands, Celan's work is given a new charge for our own times... moving, splendid, and a gifted work of translation." --Eamonn Wall

From Nothing

This is a memorable, tragic, and moving book that should be read by everyone who wonders how we got here and what our being here can mean." — Alan Shapiro

Poetry

The Net

“These are very beautiful poems, and The Net is a very beautiful book—surpassingly so. The mastery evident
in his uses of these resources is enviable.”—David Ferry

Belated Heavens

“Tobin's graceful movement between what's lost and the here-and-now, between earthy popular culture and metaphysical concerns is characteristic of…. a poet fast becoming one of his generation's finest.” —Ned Balbo, The Antioch Review

Criticism

Awake in America

"These essays usefully identify a tradition of twentieth-century Atlantic Irish writing in both Irish literature and American. Tobin's commentaries will appeal both to the general reader . . . of poetry and to the academic reader who has an interest in American literature, Irish studies, and the conundra of hyphenate or hybrid subcultures. Tobin has already established the canon of poetry in that literature with The Book of Irish American Poetry. Awake in America promises to be a useful and popular companion to that book." —Thomas Dillon Redshaw, University of St. Thomas

Poetry Anthology

The Book of Irish American Poetry from the 18th Century to the Present

“...a prodigious and remarkable work of literary scholarship.” —Eamonn Wall

To the Many: The Collected Early Works of Lola Ridge

"Radical, modernist, fier, glmamourous, feminist--adjectives and categories can only gesture toward the enduringly significant life and works of the poet Lola Ridge" Robert Pinsky

Essays

ON SERIOUS EARTH

Celebrated poet Daniel Tobin takes on the largest questions of the meaning and durability of language to art in his new book, On Serious Earth: Poetry and Tanscendence.

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Four Way Books

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Salmon Publishing

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To the Many: Collected Early Works of Lola Ridge

Transnational long before the term gained currency, Lola Ridge (1873-1941) was one of the most notable poets writing in America from the publication of her first book, The Ghetto, in 1918 until her death, inauspiciously, shortly before America's entry into the Second World War. Included are the complete texts of her first three books of poems, The Ghetto, Sun-Up, and Red Flag, as well as the never before published manuscript Verses (1905), the book of early poems she sought to publish in Australia before departing for America in 1907. With its publication, Lola Ridge's important place in the history of twentieth century poetry takes a significant step toward being recognized and restored.

"It is characteristic of literry history to be forgetful of writers who fall outside of its expected patterns.... Now Daniel Tobin has come to the rescue by editing this enlightened edition of Lola Ridge's affecting, wonderfully accessible poems. It is high time Lola Ridge was recognized by thousands of women who are triumphantly following in her footsteps today, most of them without even knowing of this interesting, in some ways tragic precursor to whose life and work we should all feel gratefully indebted."--Anne Stevenson