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This is a new name to me, and I rather like the HD-ish poem--thanks, Catherine. Can you supply her dates and the titles of those collections as well as any others that may still be circulating in one hemisphere or another? (I've been hanging off and on with the dealers on the Rare-Books list the last few months and have been surprised by how much is readily available despite being out of print if you know where to shop.) Also, what's the significance of your "public domain" remark, biographically or literarily? Thanks--Candice on 6/6/01 8:19 PM, Catherine Daly at [log in to unmask] wrote: > Lola Ridge's first two books, which are in the public domain, are coming > soon to Project Gutenberg & some of my server space. Announcement then. > > Ridge was born in Dublin and lived in New Zealand and in Australia > before moving to New York. She was a leftist, editor of The Dial and > Broom, etc. > > She's best known for her long poems such as "The Ghetto" or "Songs of > Iron"; "Sun-Up" itself is a cycle in a young girl's voice with some very > odd Bunuel-like sequence I might send to the Doll Games site. But, > here's a little poem mentioning Sydney from her book SUN-UP: > > THE DREAM > > HAVE a dream > to fill the golden sheath > of a remembered day.... > (Air > heavy and massed and blue > as the vapor of opium... > domes > fired in sulphurous mist... > sea > quiescent as a gray seal... > and the emerging sun > spurting up gold > over Sydney, smoke-pale, rising out of the bay....) > But the day is an up-turned cup > and its sun a junk of red iron > guttering in sluggish-green water -- > where shall I pour my dream? > > > Rgds, > Catherine Daly > [log in to unmask]