Anything that burns you : a portrait of Lola Ridge, radical poet / Terese Svoboda.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Svoboda, Terese, author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ridge, Lola, 1873-1941.

Ridge, Lola.

Poets, American--20th century--Biography.

Poets, American.

Women poets, American.

Women poets, American--20th century--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

551 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

Tucson, Arizona : Schaffner Press, Inc., [2016]

Summary:

"Anything that Burns You: A Portrait of Lola Ridge, Radical Poet is the first full-length biography of Lola Ridge, a trailblazer for women, poetry, and human rights far ahead of her time. This biography traces her life from Ridge's childhood as an Irish immigrant in the mining towns of New Zealand to her years as a budding poet and artist in Sydney, Australia, and then to San Francisco, Chicago, and New York. By the 1920s, she was at the center of Modernism, and good friends with William Carlos Williams and Marianne Moore, while promoting the careers of Hart Crane and Jean Toomer and editing the literary journals Others and Broom, in addition to writing brilliant socially critical poems. At one time considered one of the most popular poets of her day, Ridge later fell out of critical favor due to her impassioned verse and that looked head-on at the major social woes of society, infused with a radical belief in freedom, gleaned from her mentors Emma Goldman and Margaret Sanger"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

I Dublin, Sydney, Hokitika, Sydney, San Francisco, 1873-1907 1

Chapter 1 "One of Them" 3

Chapter 2 Ambition in New Zealand 17

Chapter 3 "The Smoking Fuse" 27

Chapter 4 The Arts in Australia 33

Chapter 5 Beyond Sydney 44

Chapter 6 Last Links with Australasia 49

Chapter 7 "Not Without Fame in Her Own Land" 54

II New York City and Beyond, 1908-1917 60

Chapter 8 "Our Gifted Rebel Poet" 63

Chapter 9 David Lawson and the Ferrer Center 73

Chapter 10 "Small Towns Crawling Out of Their Green Shirts" 87

III Modernism in New York, 1918-1928 95

Chapter 11 The Ghetto and Other Poems 97

Chapter 12 "Sex Permeates Everything" 115

Chapter 13 Others and Its Editors 121

Chapter 14 Soirées for Others 128

Chapter 15 "Woman and the Creative Will" 137

Chapter 16 Red Summer 147

Chapter 17 "We Who Touched Liberty" 153

Chapter 18 Sun-up and Other Poems 158

Chapter 19 Sunrise Turn and Ridge's Broom 170

Chapter 20 Broom's Parties and the Making of an American Idiom 179

Chapter 21 Broom's Demise 189

Chapter 22 Finding the Means: Marie Garland and Louise Adams Floyd 209

Chapter 23 Politics and Red Flag 218

Chapter 24 "Brunhilda of the Sick Bed" 227

Chapter 25 Sacco and Vanzetti 238

IV Yaddo, Firehead, Baghdad, Dance of Fire, Taos, 1929-35 245

Chapter 26 Yaddo and the Writing of Firehead 247

Chapter 27 Firehead's Success 256

Chapter 28 Return to Yaddo: Taggard and Copland 268

Chapter 29 Europe on Patronage 274

Chapter 30 Babylon and Back 282

Chapter 31 The Radical Left in the 1930s 292

Chapter 32 Shelley Awards, a Poets Guild Prize, and a Guggenheim 298

Chapter 33 Dance of Fire from New Mexico 305

Chapter 34 Poetry in the Southwest 316

V Mexico, California, New York City, 1935-1941 325

Chapter 35 Mexico and Romance 327

Chapter 36 Retreat from Mexico 339

Chapter 37 Anti-Woman, Anti-Experiment, Anti-Radical 349

Chapter 38 "The Fire of the World is Running Through Me" 354

Chapter 39 Legacy: Fire and Smoke 368.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-433) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

ISBN:

9781936182961

1936182963

1936182971

9781936182978

193618298X

9781936182985

OCLC:

907651942

Publisher Number:

99967378254