Works of Lola Ridge
In the end, I even used footnotes, which prepared me for my dive into biography.
I surrounded them with stories about her interactions with contemporaries, and brief discussions about her work. She worked hard as an editor of two major modernist magazines and as an active salonniere to unite and inspire poets and critics on the issue of what was genuinely American poetry. She kept the flame of modernism going when it could easily have burned brightest in Europe, as was the fate of Dada during the same era. Writing about her relationships with contemporaries was also a way to counteract the problem of no interviews and show how respected she was.
In order to understand her more radical views on feminism and her personal decisions derived from these ideas, I also felt I had to show those made by other women poets of her time.
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Each of my chapters was organized around a theme and a successive time period. I felt the reader needed to know the effects were ongoing, so as to be able to better judge her decline. Her decline became mine when I began to experiment with the genre. Richard Holmes wrote Footsteps, marketed as autobiography but stuffed with all the biographical material he had mastered from the lives of Shelley, Nerval and Coleridge, which became a kind of travelogue when he visits their haunts.
When he asks his future wife if she thinks he is a better writer than Mr.
To The Many: Collected Early Works by Lola Ridge, reviewed by Billy Mills
The coup de grace came when I was writing about her late in life — I was especially loathe to assess my own situation with her waning opportunities. I came to feel that I owed it to Lola as an unknown but deserving poet to try to reach as many readers as possible. What I needed was a very plain style and an easily understood structure. Laying out why she was important meant viewing her life chronologically, since the influence of most people, including her, accumulates over time.
I needed to first establish her as someone worth reading about.
- Anything That Burns You: A Portrait of Lola Ridge, Radical Poet!
- To the Many : Collected Early Works.
- Un peu de vie dans la mienne (Traverses) (French Edition).
- Sun-Up and Other Poems - Kindle edition by Lola Ridge. Reference Kindle eBooks @ www.newyorkethnicfood.com.
- Desafío al jeque (Deseo) (Spanish Edition)!
I chose a dramatic scene to portray her at the height of her influence—standing up to a police horse at the demonstration against the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti. I followed that with an example of her terrific radical poetry: This is especially true of subjects that are generally unknown. Just as not every writer-of-memoirs is Shirley MacLaine, not every biography is about Abraham Lincoln. Only after all that was presented did I begin the story of her origins.
A biographer tries to impose meaning on the chaos of a life.
- Sexe Interdite (Courtes Histoires Érotiques t. 3) (French Edition).
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- A Deed So Accursed: Lynching in Mississippi and South Carolina, 1881–1940 (The American South Series).
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- The Complete Ghost World Sequence (The Ghost World Sequence Book 4).
- Reviews and Comments.
- Historischer Bergbau im Harz: Kurzführer (German Edition).
- Walk Me Home.
- Why Has Poet Lola Ridge Disappeared?.
- Poem of the week: Manhattan by Lola Ridge | Books | The Guardian.
- King Arthur Son of God: Descendents of the Gods (Part 8) (Legacy of the Gods Book 5).
- À un prince ignorant (French Edition).
Modernism was founded on the idea of freedom of subjects and styles, and, like Isadora Duncan, Ridge found ways to embed that belief in every aspect in her life. When assessing the inevitable contradictions of such a quest, I considered the end results: This was especially noticeable when she trashed seventeen of her peers in a Saturday Review piece in It was not the best career move but one she stood by.
Your main task as a biographer—after that of story—is to make the reader feel the passion that you feel for your subject.
Poem of the week: Manhattan by Lola Ridge
The downside of this is that at some point in writing a biography, nearly every author discovers truths about her subject that makes her hesitate. Nice is the one adjective in the world that is laughable applied to any single thing I have ever written, writes Ridge toward the end of her career.
She was not nice. Female subjects are expected to be nice. The poem is still so incendiary that just two months ago, a publisher in Brooklyn refused to include it in a republication of The Ghetto and Other Poems.
She was involved in leftist politics from the poems she published before she was 20 in New Zealand to the poems found in her diary after her death. Arrested with Edna St. Katherine Ann Porter remembers:. One tall, thin figure of a woman stepped out alone,.
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A man near me said in horror,. The author of three more books of poetry, Red Flag , Firehead , and Dance of Fire , she wrote a moving poem about the Irish unionist James Larkin and a lamentation of her absence in Ireland during the Easter Rising. Having become famous during the public's interest in women's poetry and politics as a subject, she died at its nadir, in , so broke she had no money for underwear. The New Critics, the McCarthy era, and the suppression of women's voices led to her disappearance from literary history.
A great friend of Marianne Moore and William Carlos Williams, a salonniere who pushed American modernism forward, the editor of two important modernist magazines, Others and Broom , Ridge was hailed as one of the most important poets of her time in her New York Times obituary. Illustration of Ridge by Christiana Spens The most accessible of her work, the book's title poem reveals the mother's despair in Ireland, after her husband has left her and her father died: Katherine Ann Porter remembers: James Joyce and Easter