Before Gloucester
Subtitle: Vincent Ferrini
By: Ammiel Alcalay & Kate Tarlow Morgan, editors
Contributors: Ferrini, Vincent, 1913-2007, author, recipient; Hecht, Myer Harold, 1919-2009, correspondent; Mangum, Megan, book designer; City University of New York. Center for the Humanities
Series: Lost and Found, The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative -- series 4, number 1, Fall 2013; Lost and Found, The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative -- series 4, number 1.
Publisher: Center for the Humanities, the Graduate Center, The City University of New York
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 66
Subjects: Correspondence; American Poets; American poetry
Notes: "Immigrant radicalism bumps head-on into the Cold War in these evocative materials out of the life of poet and union organizer Vincent Ferrini. Like Charles Olson, Ferrini came to symbolize a poet’s relationship to the local politics of Gloucester, MA—a working city. A selection of poems, some never published and others exceedingly rare, correspondence from Ferrini’s close friend Myer “Mike” Hecht, and accompanying essays provide historical context to this key moment in US history."--Publisher's website.

"Vincent Ferrini (1913-2007) was raised in Lynn, MA, by parents who emigrated from Southern Italy to work in the shoe factories. Ferrini’s rebellion began early as he struggled against the constraints of poverty and circumstance. Self-educated, Ferrini worked for the WPA in 1935-36, finishing his first manuscript and also rebelling against the Administration itself by organizing the workers. Active in the radical United Electrical Union, Ferrini also taught at the Samuel Adams School in Boston, both targets of HUAC hearings."--Publisher's website.
Table of contents: title: Before Gloucester: an introduction  -- Ammiel Alcalay; title: Selected early poems  -- Vincent Ferrini; title: "Dear Vin [letters from Myer "Mike" Hecht] --; title: Labors of love: afterword  -- Kate Tarlow Morgan; title: Notes on Tidal wave --; title: Biographical notes ; -- Supplementary booklet:; title: Tidal wave : poems of the great strikes (facsimile: New York : Great-Concord Publishers, 1945).