Anything That Burns You

by Terese Svoboda

  p. 139 “Task of providing fodder”: ibid.

  p. 139 “Human rights movement”: ibid.

  p. 139 “No longer be dictated by governments”: ibid.

  p. 139 “When with simian”: qtd. in Huneker 1920, 192-194.

  p. 139 “Great future for women”: Ridge 1981/1919, 19.

  p. 139 “End to sexual antagonism”: Drake 1987, 195.

  p. 139 “Woman is not and never has been man’s natural inferior”: Ridge 1987/1919, 18.

  p. 139 “Completely new social and economic fabric”: Ridge to Smith and Haas, 7 Dec. 1937.

  p. 139 “Woman Renaissance”: Ridge 1987/1919, 6.

  p. 140 Ridge helped organize the tour: Ploog 2013, 122; and Churchill 2006, 58.

  p. 140 In correspondence with Sandburg’s lawyer: Ploog 2013, 132; and Kreymborg 1925, 343.

  p. 140 Johns felt too humiliated: Kennedy 2001.

  p. 140 Not included in the Chicago schedule: Ploog 2013, 123.

  p. 140 Frost declined to speak: ibid., 135 fn 3.

  p. 140 “Respectable, high-minded persons”: Beffel Feb. 1919.

  p. 140 The poets delivered their speeches: Stansell 2009, 52.

  p. 140 Epicenter of Chicago’s bohemian scene: “Further Signs of Spring,” Chicago Evening Post 21 Feb. 1919; and White 2013, 89. White identifies the location as the private studio of the socialite Anna Morgan, but Wikipedia suggests that the studio was part of a school of drama that also hosted readings in literature. See “Anna Morgan (teacher),” Wikipedia.

  p. 140 “A Provisional Scheme of the Universe”: Beffel Apr. 1919; and Mariani 1990, 159.

  p. 140 “You could hear them breathe”: Williams 1951, 161.

  p. 140 “Women Do Not Like His Poems”: Rascoe 1919.

  p. 140 “To be just a poet”: Bernstein 1998.

  p. 141 Hot Chicago: Levitt 2013.

  p. 141 Columbia Exposition: Spears 2005, 205.

  p. 141 Dawson and Kreymborg met during the war: Ploog 2005, 190.

  p. 141 Ridgefield Gazook: “The Ridgefield Gazook,” DADA and Modernist Magazines, dada-companion.com.

  p. 141 One issue of TNT: “Biography of Mitchell Dawson,” Inventory of the Mitchell Dawson Papers, Newberry Library, Chicago. Available online at mms.newberry.org.

  p. 141 Contents of TNT: Baldwin 2000, 64.

  p. 141 Work with Saphier: Kreymborg 1925, 260.

  p. 141 Stroebel and Taylor: Others Mar. 1919, 25.

  p. 141 Was to have toured: ibid.

  p. 141 Ridge delivered to a good crowd: Orrick Johns to Dawson, 11 Mar. 1919.

  p. 141 Frost, Lindsay, Sandburg, Stephens to have lectured: Ridge 1987/1919, 21 fn 9.

  p. 141 The first season was the last: Dawson to Max Bodenheim, 6 Apr. 1919.

  p. 141 “Sold lots of books”: Churchill 2006, 58, and Others Apr./May 1919, 33.

  p. 141-142 “Individuals working for society along radical lines”: Ridge 1987/1919, 3.

  p. 142 Expand speech to book length: Sproat’s introduction to Ridge 1987/1919, fn 11.

  p. 142 “Mistake you for a lamb”: Ridge to Dawson, n.d.

  p. 142 Viking withdrew its support: Ridge to B. W. Huebsch, 11 May 1929.

  p. 142 “Its success was really all due to you”: Ridge to Dawson, [1920].

  p. 142 “Criticize fiercely”: Ridge to Dawson, 11 July 1919.

  p. 142 “Standing in a trolley”: Ridge to Dawson, 11 Mar. 1919.

  p. 142 “Deny or destroy something”: Ridge to Dawson, n.d.

  p. 142 “Nothing…but love and courage”: ibid.

  p. 142 “Till the room turned around”: Mitchell Dawson to George and Eva Dawson, 5 May 1919.

  p. 142 “Brilliant conversationalist”: McCarron 1995, 8.

  p. 143 “Phallic dances in solitude”: Ploog 2005, 189-193; and Halio 2008, 21.

  p. 143 “This rebellion of hers is pure beauty”: Carnevali 1925, 117.

  p. 143 “Preoccupation with technique”: ibid.

  p. 143 “Shrill, half-crazed”: Mariani 1990, 169.

  p. 143 “Suggestive violentism…”: Carnevali 1925, 247.

  p. 143 “My friends…I hate you”: ibid., 260.

  p. 144 “The restlessness that has no direction”: ibid., 261.

  p. 144 “I am disgusted with your little review talk”: ibid., 264.

  p. 144 “Then I don’t want to be a poet”: ibid., 266.

  p. 144 “The Great Opportunity”: Williams. Egoist 3, Sept. 1916, 137.

  p. 144 Williams was moved by Carnevali: ibid., 101.

  p. 144 “WIDE open”: Williams 1919[b], 3.

  p. 144 “Inevitably to be a lie”: ibid.

  p. 144 “BEGINNING of artistic criticism”: Williams 1919[a], 28.

  p. 145 “The Compromise/New Moon”: White 2013.

  p. 145 Letters to Dawson from the hospital: Ridge to Dawson, n.d.

  p. 145 “Ready to act as a kind of intermediary”: Williams to Dawson, 30 Sept. 1919.

  p. 145 “A good ally”: ibid.

  p. 145 “Acetylene torch”: Mitchell Dawson to Eva Dawson, 14 July 1919.

  p. 145 Carnevali abandoned wife and children: Mariani 1990, 169.

  p. 145 “My dear boy”: Parisi and Young 2002, 235.

  p. 145 Moore did not appreciate her work’s placement: Whisenhunt 2009, 94.

  p. 145 “Such ROTTEN work”: Williams 1985, 44-45.

  p. 145 “Easter Dawn”: Ridge 1919.

  p. 146 Winged Victory looming: photograph is in the Lola Ridge Papers at the Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, MA.

  p. 146 Futurist manifesto: Marinetti 1909.

  p. 146 “Greater as pure Victory”: Ridge, Diary, 18 July 1940.

  Chapter 16 — Red Summer

  p. 147 “Red Summer”: Arneson 2011.

  p. 147 Johnson published alongside Ridge: Kreymborg 1920.

  p. 147 Wave of violence from returning soldiers: Bone and Courage 2011, 78; and loc.gov/exhibits/naacp.

  p. 147 Blacks fought back: Toomer 1919.

  p. 147 Seventy lynchings: Gordon 1995, 95.

  p. 147 Hundreds killed, thousands homeless: Lewis 2014.

  p. 147 Police refused to arrest the man: Shay 2012.

  p. 147 Vicious prequel in 1917: Rudwick 1982, 44.

  p. 147 It’s the whites: Barnes 2008, 143.

  p. 147 Over 100 dead African Americans: Rudwick 1982, 50.

  p. 147 “During the East St. Louis riots”: Wells-Barnett 1917, 16.

  p. 147 Torn apart: ibid, 6.

  p. 148 “Baby snatched from its mother”: DuBois and Gruening 1917.

  p. 148 “Becomes a full poet”: Hackett 1918.

  p. 149 “Sleep Dolores”: Ridge 1905, 33. Thanks to Michele Leggott for calling this to my attention. She also notes that “Dolorias” is a misprint in her manuscript, and that it was correctly spelled when published in the Bulletin.

  p. 149 Bomb on Palmer’s doorstep: O’Malley 1997.

  p. 149 Blacks were susceptible to anarchism: McWhirter 2012, 56.

  p. 149 “American Negro…conveying Bolshevism”: qtd. in ibid.

  p. 149 Predecessor of HUAC: Mittleman 2008, 83; and Polenberg 1987, 170.

  p. 150 Norman Hapgood, ambassador to Denmark: Saul 2012, 188.

  p. 150 Quotations from the Committee hearings: U.S., Cong., Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary, Serial Set 2754.

  p. 150 Reed’s summons: Hamilton 2000, and U.S., Cong., Senate, Committee on the Judiciary Bolshevik Propaganda, Hearings Before a Subcommittee…Pursuant to S. Res., 22 Feb., Washington: GPO, 1919.

  p. 150 “Trying to get to Russia”: Ridge to Dawson, 16 July 1919.

  p. 150 Komroff in Russia: Avrich 1995, 202.

  p. 150 “I have been over into the future and it works”: Simkin 2014, “Lincoln Steffens.”

  p. 150 “Foremost statesmen of the age”: Gordon 1995, 95.

  p. 151 A million for Debs despite incarceration: “People: Eugene Debs 1855-1926” 2001.

  p. 151 Berkman in solitar
y confinement: Fellner 2005, xiv.

  p. 151 Twice married Kershner: “Emma Goldman – A Dedicated Anarchist – Jacob Kershner” 2014.

  p. 151 Hoover convinced the court: ibid., and Leiser 2007. According to Hoover, Goldman and Berkman were “the most dangerous anarchists in this country.” See also “She fought the law,” American Experience: Emma Goldman on pbs.org.

  p. 151 Going away party at Brevoort: Goldman 2011/1931, 710; and Editorial, The Modern School Jan./Mar. 1920, 78.

  p. 151 “Constitution…a dead letter”: Avrich and Avrich 2012, 293.

  p. 151 “Even Czolgosz should be safeguarded”: Goldman 2011/1931, chapter 51.

  p. 152 “May be only the beginning”: qtd. in Avrich and Avrich 2012, 294.

  p. 152 All lists and ledgers confiscated: New York Times 16 June 1917.

  p. 152 Mass arrests of 7 Nov. 1919: U.S. National Park Service, “Emma Goldman,” nps.gov.

  p. 152 “Backbone of the radical movment … is broken”: “Emma Goldman,” The American Experience, PBS.

  p. 152 Asserted she was a citizen: “S.S. Finance Manifest.”

  p. 152 Married Lawson: Guttmann 1971.

  Chapter 17 — “We Who Touched Liberty”

  p. 153 “Can’t let anyone rock Little Review”: Ridge Jan. 1919, 63. “My stone arm balks at swinging in rhythm with the mobs,” she writes with regard to Pound’s choices.

  p. 153 Lesbian, transvestite, totalitarian: Michele Green, “Making no Compromises with Critical Taste: The War for The Little Review,” littlereview.com/mca/mcapaper.htm.

  p. 153 “Pied Piper”: Heap, The Little Review, Oct. 1918, 38.

  p. 153 “Are you hypnotized?” Ridge, The Little Review, Oct. 1919. 56

  p. 153 “No one has yet done much”: Heap, The Little Review, Oct. 1919. 56.

  p. 153 “The Cast-Iron Lover”: Von Freytag-Loringhoven, The Little Review, 1919.

  p. 154 Freytag-Loringhoven wandered the Village: Gammel 2003, 182.

  p. 154 Sent Duchamp a urinal: McCarthy 2011, 80-81; and Gammel and Zelazo 2011. See also Naumann 1994 for a discussion of her other readymades, including one called “God,” a sculpture of a pipe made in collaboration with Morton Schamberg, “who is probably responsible only for taking the photograph” (171).

  p. 154 Met Duchamp through Man Ray: “Baroness Elsa Biographical Sketch” 2004.

  p. 154 Not necessarily heterosexual: ibid.

  p. 154 Punched in the mouth: Mariani 1990, 162.

  p. 154 “America personified”: qtd. in Martens 2000, 67.

  p. 154 Anti-Semitic review: Von Freytag-Loringhoven 1921.

  p. 154 “[Madness] was a public custom”: Von Freytag-Loringhoven 1920.

  p. 154 “The thought of insanity scares me”: Ridge to Lawson, 11 Aug. 1931.

  p. 154 “The cacophonous clash”: A. Jones 2004, 10.

  p. 155 “She is the future”: qtd. in Rexroth 1973.

  p. 155 Use of many voices: Clement 2009, 180.

  p. 155 Ridge reversed her stance: Ridge to Loeb, 2 Jan. 1923.

  p. 155 Goldman and Berkman’s going away party: Avrich 2005, 329.

  p. 155 Welcomed by Shatoff: Goldman 2011/1931, 595-596.

  p. 156 “Greatest railway builder” disappeared in the Purge: Symes and Travers 1934, 333; and Avrich 1995, 290.

  p. 156 Reed’s quarrels with Goldman: Homberger 1990, 202.

  p. 156 Meeting with Lenin: Falk 1996.

  p. 156 Stalled on their new magazine: White 2013, 95, references the Dawson/Williams correspondence in the Dawson Papers at Newberry Library, Chicago.

  p. 156 Timidity: McAlmon to Dawson. June [1920].

  p. 156 “I won’t have it cut”: Ridge to Dawson, [1920].

  p. 156 “It spoils the friendship”: Ridge to Dawson, n.d.

  p. 156 “Can’t just now”: Ridge to Dawson, 24 Sept. [1919].

  p. 156 “Rio de Janeiro for a visit”: Ridge to Dawson, [1920].

  p. 156 Lacking funds for Russia: Ridge to Dawson, n.d.

  p. 156 “Please pay it for me”: Ridge to Dawson, June 1920.

  p. 156 “I shall not accept it”: Ridge to Dawson, [1920].

  p. 156 “Stomach trouble and nerves”: Ridge to Dawson, 27 June 1920.

  p. 157 “I don’t want to criticize”: Ridge to Dawson, [late 1920].

  p. 157 Carnevali to an insane asylum: Ploog 2005, 193.

  p. 157 “Undesirable to become God”: qtd. in Hahn 1966, 228.

  p. 157 “Until you send some dough”: qtd. in Ploog 2005, 194 fn 35.

  p. 157 Meningitis and death: Halio 2008, 21.

  Chapter 18 — Sun-up and Other Poems

  p. 158 “A foremost place of any American woman”: Herman Gorman, New York Times Book Review, 9 Jan. 1921.

  p. 158 The Bookman: The Bookman. Mar. 1921. 261.

  p. 158 Published 1920 by Huebsch: Ridge to Jean Toomer, 12 Oct. 1920.

  p. 158 “Acidly translated truth”: “Briefer Mention.” The Dial Aug. 1921, 243.

  p. 158 “Honesty so quick as to be diabolical”: M. D. 1920.

  p. 159 “When Nero was a little boy”: Ridge 1920, 8.

  p. 159 “Little babies getting drowned”: Ridge 1920, 9.

  p. 159 “You wonder/if God has spoiled Jimmy”: ibid., 12.

  p. 159 “Not to be patted on the head”: Crawford 1921.

  p. 161 “Castle has no roofs”: ibid., 13.

  p. 161 “Floats dim and beautiful”: ibid., 14.

  p. 161 “Stairs go up into the sky”: ibid., 15.

  p. 161 “Mama peeps out the window and smiles”: ibid., 32.

  p. 161 “Jude isn’t afraid of shadows”: ibid., 31.

  p. 162 Bethell, Mansfield and Hyde: I am indebted to Michele Leggott’s insights here.

  p. 162 “Never forgive them”: Ridge 1920, 32.

  p. 162 “He is the kind of boy”: ibid., 34.

  p. 163 “The grass didn’t fall down under his feet”: ibid., 36.

  p. 163 “Like threshing things”: ibid., 39.

  p. 163 “Hot sweet song”: ibid., 41.

  p. 163 “Remote hunger”: ibid., 44.

  p. 163 “What are you to me”: ibid., 46.

  p. 164 “Scandal-mongers with gum trees”: ibid., 48.

  p. 164 “Playing virgin”: ibid., 51.

  p. 164 “Wireless whispers”: ibid., 52.

  p. 164 “Charged phalluses”: ibid., 54.

  p. 164 “I know your secrets”: ibid., 55.

  p. 164 Excitement of the new metropolis: Newcomb 2003.

  p. 164 “East River”: Ridge 1920, 57.

  p. 164 “Wall Street at Night”: ibid., 56.

  p. 165 “Silence/builds her wall”: ibid., 63.

  p. 165 “Did you enter my wound”: ibid., 64.

  p. 165 Freud’s Group Psychology: Ridge’s Boni and Liveright edition is kept at Bryn Mawr College Library’s Special Collections.

  p. 165 “Man size courage and woman size understanding”: Scott to Ridge, 1920.

  p. 165 “She is death enjoying Life”: “Autumn Night,” Scott 1920, 104.

  p. 165 “We beat at the door”: Ridge 1920, 77.

  p. 166 Hypatia flayed alive: Gibbon 1898, 109-110.

  p. 166 “Feet that jig on air”: Ridge 1920, 79.

  p. 166 “Pelvis lifting to the white body of the sun”: ibid., 84.

  p. 166 Climax in the sweatshop: Lowry 1994, 26. According to an article in the New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal of 1867, foremen were supposed to listen for the sound of runaway sewing machines to discourage the one benefit of treadle sewing (Castellanos 1886/1887).

  p. 166 “They think they have tamed you”: Ridge 1920, 87.

  p. 166 Jim Larkin: Simkin 2014, “James Larkin.”

  p. 166 “Prejudices with economic logic”: Symes and Travers 1934, 290.

  p. 167 “Marianne takes great pride”: Mary Moore to Ridge, 13 Mar. 1921.

  p. 167 “Better work than any”: Ridge to B. W. Huebsch, 12 Apr. 1920.

  p. 167 A summer stay at the
MacDowell colony: Courtney Bethel, personal communication. 15 Oct. 2012.

  p. 167 Our Town and Porgy and Bess: “Artists and Works Supported by MacDowell,” macdowellcolony.org.

  p. 167 “Unplumbed potentialities”: “Far from the Madding Crowd in Peterborough,” New York Times 15 Jan. 1922.

  p. 167 Ill during her stay: Ridge to Marian MacDowell, [May 1934].

  p. 167 Two endorsements or an invitation: “Far from the Madding Crowd,” New York Times 15 Jan. 1922.

  p. 167 Returned every summer: “A Century of Creativity: The MacDowell Colony, 1907-2007,” Library of Congress Online Exhibition, loc.gov/exhibits/macdowell.

  p. 168 “Grapes/on a ragged corsage”: Bynner 1920, 25.

  p. 168 Spectra Hoax: “Guide to the Witter Bynner Papers, 1905-1962,” Special Collections, University of New Hampshire Library.

  p. 168 Seiffert commended, in contrast to women: Churchill 2005, 96.

  p. 168 “My own emotions are not feminine”: Seiffert to Hoyt, 12 Mar. 1917.

  p. 168 A tree with a bird in it: Widdemer 1922, 42.

  Chapter 19 — Sunwise Turn and Ridge’s Broom

  p. 170 “Rise, triumph and assimilation”: Rainey 1998, 65.

  p. 170 “Sunwise”: Dwelly’s [Scottish] Gaelic Dictionary, 1911.

  p. 170 Stieglitz 291 Gallery: Jenison 1923, 12.

  p. 170 “Would close his gallery”: Robinson, 182.

  p. 170 “So deliriously lovely”: Jenison 1923, 84-85.

  p. 170 Arthur Davies: Rainey 1996, 551.

  p. 170 What the store displayed: Dearborn 2004, 34; and Jenison 1923, 22.

  p. 170 Ancillary material supported the store: Rainey 1998, 66-67.

  p. 170 Invest in art to prevent war: Dearborn 2004, 35.

  p. 171 Clarke’s husband: ibid.

  p. 171 “Packed into a bit of plaster”: Sinclair 1913, 128.

  p. 171 Ferrer Center regulars: McCarron 1995, 29 fn 22; and Antliff 2007, 44, 126.

  p. 171 Conference of “libertarian education”: ibid., 134.

  p. 171 “Recent college graduate…missionary”: White 1916.

  p. 171 “Read all the books before we sell them”: ibid.

  p. 171 Sold half the store and relocated: Loeb 1959, 53; and Rainey 1996, 553.

  p. 171 “Electric light bulbs and tacks”: Jenison 1923; and Dearborn 2004, 34.

  p. 171 Books for decorative purposes: Dearborn 2004, 35.