Preface / David Weintraub
Translator's Acknowledgments
A Note on Orthography
Chronology
Introduction: The Days of Proletpen in American Yiddish Poetry / Dovid Katz
Urban Landscape
New York / Alexander Pomerantz
My New York Street Sings / Esther Shumyatsher
from America / Beresh Vaynshteyn
Shadows / Avrom Viktor
from "On the Hudson" / Nokhem Vaysman
Wolves / Y.A. Rontsh
By the River / Martin Birnbaum
On the Street Corner / L. Mattes
Men / Dora Teitelboim
Being a "Greener"
In our Eyes / Dora Teitelboim
from "To My Shtel Years" / Yosl Grinshpan
A Blessing Over Bread / Dovid Seltzer
Italian Masons / Sarah Barkan
The Miner's Family / Yosl Grinshpan
Sacco and Vanzetti / Ber Grin
Vanzetti's Ghost / Yosl Grinshpan
Visiting Jesus / Martin Birnbaum
On Roads / Ber Grin
Songs of the Shop
My Father the Foundryman / Alexander Pomerantz
Two Songs of a Blacksmith / Aaron Kurtz
At the Machine / Kalman Hayzler
The Machine /Kalman Hayzler
Figaro / A Shtriker
Strike / Aaron Rapoport
The Call / Aaron Kurtz
Chandeliers / Alexander Pomerantz
Shir Asheydim Ansher / Yosl Cutler
from "going Up" / Sam Liptsin
Speaking of Scottsboro
Negro Song / Sarah Barkan
Scottsboro / Betsalel Friedmann
Scottsboro / Y. A. Rontsh
Done a Good Job / Y. A. Rontsh
Neckst / Yosl Cutler
Grand Central by Night / Yosl Grinshpan
Negro on the Subway / Malka Lee
Whiteness / Zishe Vaynper
A Negro Dies / Beresh Vaynshteyn
Jim the Janitor Is Dead / Dora Teitelboim
Encounters with the Elements
The Fly / Y. Nokhem
Houds Howl at the Moon / Y. Nokhem
Earth Dream / Esther Shumyatsher
Breath of Spring / Sarah Fel-Yelin
Winter / Yuri Suhl
The Hungerdance / Menke Katz
The Man Who Is Out of Work Talks to His Son about the Sunset / L. Miller
Ballad of the Night / Y. A. Rontsh
Rain / Ber Grin
When the Moon Isn't Shining / L. Miller
To a Butterfly / Menke Katz
United in Struggle
Bring Me Your Woes / Sarah Barkan
Strike of the Coal Miners / A. Prints (Ber Grin)
In Any Case / Yosl Grinshpan
The Old Woman / Moyshe Nadir
My October Song / Yuri Suhl
Vengeance / Shmuel Kreyter
Eviction Fight / N. D. Korman
Rosa Luxemburg / Y. A. Rontsh
Anna Pauker / Nokhem Vaysman
We Are the Heirs / Isaac Platner
Not-a / Yosl Cutler
Matters of the Heart
Kh'hob dikh lib / Yuri Suhl
To My Beloved / R. G. Ka
Triangle / L. Miller
Threesome / Dora Teitelboim
Your Arms / Dora Teitelboim
Sonnet and Duet for Flapper and Poet / Alexander Pomerantz
Fight and Play / Sarah Kindman
My Heart / Moyshe Nadir
My Bas-Sheva / Moyshe Nadir
A Kiss / Malka Lee
In Pencil / Moyshe Naidr
The Poet on Poetry
The Song / L. Tur
I Have Not Woven My Poems . . . / Sarah Barkan
Today/ Shifre Vays
Sergei Yesenin / Yosl Kohn
Morris Winchevsky / A. Prints (Ber Grin)
To Mani Leyb / Shifre Vays
Hands / Chaim Schwartz
The Brave Coward / Menke Katz
Out of the Depths / Moyshe Nadir
Dead Chrysanthemums / Ber Grin
Wars to End All Wars
Spanish Lullaby / Aaron Kurtz
Andalusian Landscape / Aaron Kurtz
No Pasarán / Aaron Kurtz
War Lullaby / Dora Teitelboim
Greetings from My Shtetl (A Letter from Poland) / Chaim Plotkin
My Shtetl on the Dnestr / Ber Grin
Child, You New Man / Malka Lee
Toye-Voye / Esther Shumyatsher
Word / Zishe Vaynper
Matters of Life and Death
Her Three Unborn Baby Boys / Menke Katz
Suicide / Menke Katz
A Third / Moyshe Nadir
The Man Who Hanged Himself / Martin Birnbaum
A Man Falls at Work / Ber Grin
Selfwriting / Moyshe Nadir
Without God's Blessing / Hershl Miller
Kaddish / Hershl Miller
Afterwards / Moyshe Nadir
Gambling / Dora Teitelboim
The Poets
Bibliography