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Ludlow is a novel in verse that tells the story of a handful of immigrants Greek, Mexican, Scottish, Italian in southern Colorado, climaxing in the Ludlow Massacre of April 1914, in which elements of the Colorado National Guard killed striking miners and family members. The novel follows two primary characters: the fictional Luisa Mole, orphaned in the opening chapter, who must choose between life among the miners and the middle-class family who adopt her; and the historical figure Louis Tikas, a Cretan immigrant who, in the course of the book, becomes a labor organizer and a Ludlow martyr. But several minor characters Too Tall MacIntosh, Lefty Calabrini, George Reed and his family, and even John D. Rockefeller, Jr. also play significant roles in the book, which never succumbs to simplistic political pieties, but is engaged with identity and being.
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David Mason s previous books of poetry include The Buried Houses, The Country I Remember and Arrivals. His book of essays, The Poetry of Life and the Life of Poetry, appeared in 2000, and he has also co-edited several anthologies and textbooks. A former Fulbright Fellow to Greece, he has published work in such periodicals as Harper s, The Times Literary Supplement, The Nation, The New Republic, Poetry and The Hudson Review. He teaches at The Colorado College and lives in the mountains outside Colorado Springs.
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A true verse novel (real verse, real novel), David Mason s Ludlow revisits one of the cruelest, bloodiest chapters in the history of American labor and state and corporate injustice: the Ludlow coal field massacre of 1914, in which eighteen men, women, and children of coal mining families were killed by the Colorado National Guard. Within a driving narrative that never loses momentum, Mason s deftly drawn characters, both historical and fictional, take on the lineaments of Dorothea Lange s photographs. With Ludlow, reminiscent in its political and dramatic power of Steinbeck s In Dubious Battle, Mason confirms his reputation as one of America s finest poets and a master of narrative. --B. H. Fairchild
Ludlow bowled me over with its dramatic power, kept me reading on, under its spell. This violent chapter in American labor history richly deserves a poem of epic size, and David Mason, outstanding poet and long-time resident of Colorado, is the man to deliver it. Unforgettably, its characters practically step off the page immigrant hero Louis Tikas, mistreated waif Luisa Mole, and Too Tall MacIntosh, the man who must stoop to work in a mine. Here is a major poem bursting with life, a book with greatness written all over it. --X. J. Kennedy
One of the most shameful horrors of the long battle for union organizing rights occurred near tiny Ludlow, Colorado. . . . Mason interjects his own memories of learning about Ludlow and his family's tangential connection to it as well as the rage and pity, and the solidarity with the poor and oppressed, that Ludlow still evokes. --Booklist, starred review
Ludlow bowled me over with its dramatic power, kept me reading on, under its spell. This violent chapter in American labor history richly deserves a poem of epic size, and David Mason, outstanding poet and long-time resident of Colorado, is the man to deliver it. Unforgettably, its characters practically step off the page immigrant hero Louis Tikas, mistreated waif Luisa Mole, and Too Tall MacIntosh, the man who must stoop to work in a mine. Here is a major poem bursting with life, a book with greatness written all over it. --X. J. Kennedy
One of the most shameful horrors of the long battle for union organizing rights occurred near tiny Ludlow, Colorado. . . . Mason interjects his own memories of learning about Ludlow and his family's tangential connection to it as well as the rage and pity, and the solidarity with the poor and oppressed, that Ludlow still evokes. --Booklist, starred review
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- PublisherRed Hen Press
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 1597090832
- ISBN 13 9781597090834
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages232
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Book Description Softcover. Condition: new. Ludlow is a novel in verse that tells the story of a handful of immigrants Greek, Mexican, Scottish, Italian in southern Colorado, climaxing in the Ludlow Massacre of April 1914, in which elements of the Colorado National Guard killed striking miners and family members. The novel follows two primary characters: the fictional Luisa Mole, orphaned in the opening chapter, who must choose between life among the miners and the middle-class family who adopt her; and the historical figure Louis Tikas, a Cretan immigrant who, in the course of the book, becomes a labor organizer and a Ludlow martyr. But several minor characters Too Tall MacIntosh, Lefty Calabrini, George Reed and his family, and even John D. Rockefeller, Jr. also play significant roles in the book, which never succumbs to simplistic political pieties, but is engaged with identity and being. Seller Inventory # DADAX1597090832
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