Works of Lola Ridge
Or shudder and hood up their souls—. Where Liberty has lodged an hour.
Empty Mirror Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine which publishes new work each Friday. After some years spent in Spain and the UK, he currently lives in Limerick. Arrested with Edna St. See all 3 reviews. AmazonGlobal Ship Orders Internationally. After this long title sequence, much of the rest of the book is made up of short poems that, despite their relatively late appearance in the book, have the feel of transitional work, with Ridge absorbing the lessons of the Imagist poets she was undoubtedly reading in the little magazines of the day and some of whom she came to know personally through her association with the journal Others: William Drake reports that after they resettled, her mother remarried, this time to an impassioned Scottish miner who recited Shakespeare and became violent when he was inebriated.
And passed like flame,. Bursting asunder the too small house. Proclaimed one of the best books of the year by anthologist Louis Untermeyer, it was followed by Sun-up and Other Poems in 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:.
Lola Ridge was a poet and champion of the working class. and later that year she published this and other poems in The Ghetto and Other Poems. In Ridge published a new book, Sun-up, and Other Poems, a collection of free- verse. The Ghetto, and Other Poems, Huebsch, Sun-Up, and Other Poems, Huebsch, ; Red Flag, Viking, Firehead, Payson & Clarke, Daniel Tobin, ed. (). Light in Hand: Selected Early Poems.
But primarily this poem is about a bad little girl adjusting to life as an immigrant to Australasia. Janie, in the following poem, is her much abused doll.
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The title of my biography Anything That Burns You is that answer that Ridge gave to an interviewer about the proper subjects for the writing of poetry. 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.
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Arrested with Edna St. Katherine Ann Porter remembers:. One tall, thin figure of a woman stepped out alone,. The collection focused on the Lower East side tenements where Ridge was living, specifically the lives of Jewish immigrants.
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Ridge was employed as a factory worker and was politically active, often writing about race, class, and gender issues, especially in her early work. She was an advocate for women's rights, gay rights, and the rights of immigrants. In , she was arrested while protesting the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, anarchists and Italian immigrants who were convicted, through a controversial trial, of murdering two men during an armed robbery in Massachusetts. The critical success of her early work led to editorships at avant-garde journals Other where she worked alongside poets William Carlos Williams and Marianne Moore , and Broom.
She died in New York at the age of sixty-seven on May 19, I love you, malcontent Male wind— Shaking the pollen from a flower Or hurling the sea backward from the grinning sand. Blow on and over my dreams.
Lola Ridge
Scatter my sick dreams. Throw your lusty arms about me. Envelop all my hot body.
