Anything That Burns You

by Terese Svoboda

  p. 171 Ridge’s reading: Marianne Moore to Ridge, 11 May 1920, writes, “So sorry I did not know you were going to speak at the Sunwise Turn last Tuesday.”

  p. 171 Each voyage turned east: My thanks to Michele Leggott for surmising this.

  p. 171 Other readers at Sunwise: Rainey 1996, 553.

  p. 171 Early performance of Lima Beans: Dearborn 2004, 36.

  p. 171 Europe might be more interested: Kreymborg 1925, 252-253.

  p. 171 Not ill-disposed to Rome: Norris 2011, 39.

  p. 172 Hemingway’s Cohn based on Loeb: Kaye 2006 44 fn 43.

  p. 172 Less caustic portrait that Loeb liked: Loeb 1959, 133.

  p. 172 “Squat young man”: Cowley 1922, 52.

  p. 172 Loeb after Princeton: Sarason 1980, 251.

  p. 172 Launched Broom with bookshop proceeds: Fedirka 2008, 44.

  p. 172 Cheaper abroad: North 2007.

  p. 172 “Mother’s family and its industrial achievements”: Loeb 1959, 44.

  p. 172 Harold Content: ibid., 42; and “Harold A. Content” in Katz 2000.

  p. 172 Marjorie stayed put: Loeb 1959, 41.

  p. 172 Publishing from Rome was difficult: North 2007.

  p. 172 Loeb and Kreymborg argued: Loeb 1959, 95, and Loeb to Ridge, 7 Aug. 1922.

  p. 172 Loeb bought out Kreymborg: Kondritzer 1984, 40-42.

  p. 173 Ridge replaced Kreymborg: Loeb 1959, 87.

  p. 173 “Very self-reliant young woman”: ibid.

  p. 173 Living in Montreal: Ridge 1918/1919, 3.

  p. 173 “This ghastly country”: Ridge to Scott, [1922].

  p. 173 “Russian paralysis of the will”: Ridge to Louise Morgan, 3 Jan. 1922.

  p. 173 Evelyn Scott in Montreal: Scott to Ridge, [1928].

  p. 173 Bercovici and Traubel in Montreal: Bercovici 1941, 96.

  p. 173 “$60 of poems the last ten days”: Ridge to Dawson, [1920-1].

  p. 173 “Let me know when you are preparing”: ibid.

  p. 173 Musterbook: “Biographical Note,” Guide to the Hi Simons Papers, 1915-1950, University of Chicago Library, 2006.

  p. 173 “The tented autumn gone”: Ridge to Dawson, n.d.

  p. 173 Dawson asked Williams for work: Dawson to Williams, [1921].

  p. 173 $1233.06 in 2014 dollars: davemanuel.com/inflation-calculator.php.

  p. 173 An amount she often had to forgo: Ridge to Otto Theis, 21 Feb. 1922.

  p. 173 “Full of enthusiasm for BROOM”: Ridge to Loeb, 1 Feb. 1922.

  p. 173-174 “Will not ever leave you in the lurch”: ibid.

  p. 174 Operated out of Marjorie’s basement: Kondritzer 1984, 9.

  p. 174 “Most widely circulated…of its time”: Wheeler 2012, 283.

  p. 174 Ridge’s three conditions: Ridge to Loeb, 1 Feb. 1922.

  p. 174 “Quite acceptable”: Loeb to Ridge, 6 Feb. 1922.

  p. 174 “Meet her half way”: Loeb 1959, 103.

  p. 174 “I sympathize with the project”: Loeb to Ridge 6 Feb. 1922.

  p. 174 “Must reserve full veto power”: ibid.

  p. 174 “You will run into difficulties…”: ibid.

  p. 174 “Wide-ranging and often discordant”: Brooker and Thacker 2012, 644.

  p. 174 “I think the French influence”: Ridge to Loeb, 25 Mar. 1922.

  p. 175 “Don’t talk of quitting!”: Ridge to Loeb, 28 Feb. 1922.

  p. 175 Only $95 in the bank: Ridge to Loeb, 10 Mar. 1922.

  p. 175 Secured $5,000 from his mother: Ridge to Loeb, 25 Mar. 1922.

  p. 175 “Deeply grateful for the five thousand”: Loeb to Ridge, 12 Apr. 1922.

  p. 175 “The machine age of America”: Ridge to Loeb, 22 Mar. 1922.

  p. 175 “One of the moaners”: Loeb 1959, 102.

  p. 175 “Capitalism was impersonal, its products magnificent”: ibid., 121.

  p. 176 “Our magnificent slave”: Josephson 1922.

  p. 176 “The buildings are flattening us”: Wilson 1922.

  p. 176 “Critics assailed us”: Josephson 1962, 191.

  p. 176 “Stieglitz could do it”: Ridge to Loeb, 25 Mar. 1922.

  p. 176 Strand was willing: Ridge to Loeb, 14 Apr. 1922.

  p. 176 Striking pictures of the Ghetto: Homberger 2007, 79.

  p. 176 Discouraged but hoped Strand would contribute: Loeb to Ridge, 12 Apr. 1922.

  p. 176 “Total agreement”: Loeb to Ridge, 3 Apr. 1922.

  p. 176 “Life-life-life”: Ridge to Loeb, 14 Apr. 1922.

  p. 176 “Harold would be as proud”: Ridge to Stieglitz. 23 Nov. 1922.

  p. 176 Stieglitz wanted to be in the American number: Ridge to Loeb. 14 Apr. 1922.

  p. 177 “Probably the most important American Artist”: Loeb to Ridge, 1 May 1922.

  p. 177 Loeb asking for money in Rome: Loeb to Ridge, 20 May 1922.

  p. 177 Wanted to live on his mother’s gift: Loeb to Ridge, 30 May 1922.

  p. 177 Mimeographed 10,000 campaign letters: Ridge to Loeb, 13 July 1922.

  p. 177 A sample copy for stamps: Ridge, Postal Campaign Letter, May 1922, Broom Correspondence, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.

  p. 177 Subscriptions flooded in: Ridge to an unknown recipient, [spring 1922], Broom correspondence.

  p. 177 Oscar Williams: Ridge to Loeb, 6 Nov. 1922.

  p. 177 “Anything I can for Musterbook”: Ridge to Dawson, [1922].

  p. 177 “Bless your heart for sympathy”: Ridge to Dawson, 29 Mar. 1922.

  p. 177 Dawson’s intensity waned: Ploog 2005, 196.

  p. 177 “Send something good”: Ridge to Williams, 30 Apr. [1922].

  p. 177 “Red Eric”: Ridge to Loeb, 4 Oct. 1922.

  p. 177 Most significant American work: North 2007, 21.

  p. 177 Accepted Williams, Bogan and Wylie: Ridge to Loeb, 30 June 1922.

  p. 177 “Lead not follow”: Ridge to Loeb, 26 Sept. 1922.

  p. 177 “A fraction of its function”: Loeb to Ridge, 30 May 1922.

  p. 178 Jolas the preferred archetype: Rydsjo and Jonsson 2013.

  p. 178 “Let up a little on the financial end”: qtd. in Wheeler 2008, 39.

  p. 178 “The great unknowns”: Ridge to Loeb, 26 Sept. 1922.

  Chapter 20 — Broom’s Parties and the Making of an American Idiom

  p. 179 Pound noted her impact: Ahearn 1987, 12. Pounds writes, “Of the earlier possible lights, there once was a certain Lola Ridge.”

  p. 179 Cummings’ apology: e. e. Cummings to Ridge, n.d.

  p. 179 Added one night a week: Hively, 92.

  p. 179 Partygoers came in evening dress: Marianne Moore to John Warner Moore, 18 Feb. 1923. Gregory and Zaturenska 1946 write, “Those who remember Lola Ridge also remember the large, barely furnished, wind-swept, cold-water loft where she lived in downtown Manhattan,” 445.

  p. 179-180 “Jammed with writers, painters, musicians”: Loeb 1959, 153.

  p. 180 Boyle had replaced Benét: Ridge to Loeb, 6 Nov. 1922.

  p. 180 Boyle would become a noted writer: “Kay Boyle: An Inventory of Her Collection,” Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, Archival Resource Online.

  p. 180 “Loved each other instantly”: Kay Boyle to Sandra Spanier, 19 Nov. 1984, qtd. in Spanier 1986, 10.

  p. 180 $18.00 a week: Spanier 1986, 10.

  p. 180 “Mother…exactly my age”: McAlmon and Boyle 1984, 18.

  p. 180 Taste for the avant-garde, proletariat: Levitzke 2011.

  p. 180 “Lola who spoke the vocabulary”: McAlmon and Boyle 1984, 22.

  p. 180 “Fiery awareness of social injustice”: McAlmon and Boyle 1984, 15.

  p. 180 Abortion money and dancing together: Mellen 1994, 50-54.

  p. 180 “Rarest and most beautiful persons”: Boyle to Scott, 12 June 1922.

  p. 180 “Flame I held cupped”: McAlmon and Boyle 1984, 15.

  p. 180 Three months as an assistant: Mellen 1994, 50.

  p. 180 Ridge to encourage Scott and Moore: Marianne Moore to Ridge, 27 Nov. 1922, writes, “I shal
l watch for Kay Boyle.”

  p. 180 “Too pleasant to be great”: Boyle to Ridge, 20 Aug. 1923.

  p. 180 Pleasant to Ridge’s guests: Maun 2012, 74.

  p. 180 Selling Broom, cutting cake, etc.: Loeb 1959, 124-125; and Spanier 1986, 11.

  p. 181 “A light in that room”: Jean Toomer, “On Being American,” Toomer Collection, Fisk University Library, Nashville, TN.

  p. 181 “Untracked wilderness but dimly blazed”: Frank 1919, 9.

  p. 181 Three editions in six months: Kirsch 2006.

  p. 181 “Racial composition” of no concern: Byrd and Gates 2011.

  p. 181 Hoped to be published together: Pfeiffer 2010, 11.

  p. 181 Managed to publish on the same day: North 1998, 163.

  p. 181 Toomer wrote Holiday dialogue: Pfeiffer 2010, 15.

  p. 181 Gurdjieff’s influence: Jones 2006, xiv; and Weber 1948, 214. Jones writes, “It is a commonly held belief that Toomer’s literary artistry devolved into moral pronouncements after the publication of Cane, owing to the influence of Gurdjieffian philosophy.”

  p. 181 Frank suggests Toomer submit to Broom: Scruggs and VanDemarr 1998, 106.

  p. 181 “The calibre of Lola Ridge”: qtd. in Whalan 2006, 36.

  p. 181 Toomer’s affair with Frank’s wife: Whalan 2006, xxxv, and Pfeiffer 2010, 20.

  p. 181 Identified as black: Toomer 2011, 234.

  p. 181 O’Keeffe and marriage to Content: Scott W. Williams, “A Jean Toomer Biography,” University of Buffalo Online.

  p. 181 She stayed upstairs: Kerman 1989, 229; and McAlmon and Boyle 1984, 18.

  p. 181 “How much you have given to me”: Moore to Ridge, 1 Jan. 1927.

  p. 181 Ridge’s poem: The much anthologized “Reveille,” which appeared in The Dial 31 May 1919, 551.

  p. 181 “Industry and the Captains of Industry”: Veblen 1919.

  p. 181 “But should you rather not”: Moore to Ridge, 25 Jan. 1929.

  p. 182 “Diminution of intensity”: Moore to Ridge, 3 June 1925.

  p. 182 “Be sure your own…”: Moore to Ridge, 1 Dec. [1927].

  p. 182 Ridge published and recommended Moore’s work: Moore to Ridge, 28 Nov. 1920.

  p. 182 Moore and mother typed for Ridge: Moore to Ridge, 30 Apr. 1925, 18 Sept. 1924, and 1 Jan. 1921.

  p. 182 “Frost typing…Stevens”: Drake 1987, 265.

  p. 182 “Great liking to Hart Crane”: Moore 1961, 42.

  p. 182 “In that bemused state”: ibid., 41.

  p. 182 Benéts were frequent guests: The Marianne Moore Collection Summary, Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia, PA.

  p. 182 Laura Benét as assistant and substitute review editor: Stayer 2007.

  p. 182 Fair Bred: Patterson 2007.

  p. 182 Bill Benét co-founded the Saturday Review and won the Pulitzer: Aliperti 2014; and Mayo 2003.

  p. 182 Winner of two Pulitzer Prizes: “Stephen Vincent: Biography” poetryfoundation.org.

  p. 183 Wylie would appear as Benét’s wife: “Elinor Wylie,” allpoetry.com.

  p. 183 “Lovely, amused formality”: Hively 2003, 73.

  p. 183 Never pleased Laura: ibid.

  p. 183 Chain-link weave: Walker 1991, 74.

  p. 183 “Imperious brows…”: qtd. in Barnet 2004, 123.

  p. 183 “Queen of poets”: Rodwan, n.d.

  p. 183 Millay’s review of Wylie: ibid.

  p. 183 Wylie’s publications between 1921 and 1928: ibid.

  p. 183 Torchlight parade: “Elinor Wylie: Biography,” poetryfoundation.org.

  p. 183 “Stood between her and living men”: ibid.; and Van Doren 1937, 198.

  p. 183 “I wish it were Shelley/astride my belly”: OUP 31.

  p. 183 Wylie haunts MacDowell: Hively 2003, 83.

  p. 183 “Did you see how they hate me”: qtd. in Hively 2003. See also Tietjens 1938, 192.

  p. 184 Distant relative a witch: Hively 2003, 85.

  p. 184 “Stood with crimson roses”: Ridge, Diary, 29 Mar. 1940.

  p. 184 “The greatest American sculptor”: Eglington 1935.

  p. 184 “You are the Goddess”: lachaisefoundation.org/biography.

  p. 184 Louis Ginsberg attended: Vicary 2000.

  p. 184 Louis Ginsberg and nudist wife: “Commentary on Louis Ginsberg’s Waterfalls of Stone,” writing.upenn.edu.

  p. 184 Mayakovsky’s feet on the table: Mariani 1990, 247. William Carlos Williams refers to this in his poem “Russia”: “He put one foot up/on the table that night on 14th Street when/he read to us.”

  p. 184 “Thundered out his tremendous strophes”: Deutsch to Ridge, 21 Sept. 1925, qtd. in Mariani 1990, 247.

  p. 184 Futurist poems in 1912: Brent and Sholokhova, n.d.

  p. 184 Suspicious suicide: “Mayakovsky, Vladimir Vladimirovich,” sovietlit.net/bios; and “Vladimir Mayakovsky,” poets.org.

  p. 184 Stole the idea: “Entry 05: Criticizing the Poet/Critic,” barrettwatten.net.

  p. 184 “Petrograd”: Deutsch’s poem is available via allpoetry.com.

  p. 184 A Brittle Heaven: Bendixen and Serafin 2003.

  p. 184 Self-described Michaelangelo: McAlmon. 1990. 3.

  p. 184 “Even Robert McAlmon”: F. Scott Fitzgerald to Ernest Hemingway, Dec. 1927, qtd. in Bruccoli 1995, 155.

  p. 184 “Half assed fairy”: Hemingway to Ezra Pound [Dear Herr Gott], 1926.

  p. 185 “Office boy’s revenge”: “A Scarlet Pansy: Robert McAlmon’s Secret Book,” neilpearsonrarebooks.com.

  p. 185 Published Fitzgerald…Stein: Mann 2006.

  p. 185 Farmhand and cowpuncher: Smoller 1974, 10.

  p. 185 Traveled to Chicago: Mariani 1990, 174.

  p. 185 Ended up kissing his hand: ibid., 173.

  p. 185 Married Bryher, ménage à trois: Guest 1984, 184-185.

  p. 185 Gay subculture, classic: “A Scarlet Pansy,” neilpearsonrarebooks.com.

  p. 185 Slept with McAlmon, Oscar Wilde: Mellen 1994, 122.

  p. 185 Why Dawson published alone: “Contact” in Chielens 1992, 74.

  p. 185 Co-published five issues: Mann 2006.

  p. 185 Early summer 1920: White 2013, 95.

  p. 185 Hartley and Moore read: Barnet 2004 portrays Loy as a socialite with a voice like “thin glasses” struck “successively at random” (51).

  p. 185 “Distrusted people like Ridge”: Mariani 1990, 174.

  p. 186 Post-Adolescence: McAlmon 1923.

  p. 186 “We’ll have to form a union”: ibid. 24.

  p. 186 “Even the coffee tastes like vinegar”: ibid. 27.

  p. 186 “A dead horse on the curb”: ibid. 31.

  p. 186 “Vera St. Vitus—the jumpy cooey little thing”: ibid., 50.

  p. 186 “The illegitimate child of industrialization, the city”: ibid.

  p. 186 Blue door at the top of 7 East 14: Ridge to Marshall, 1 June 1934; Smith to Ridge, 2 Nov. 1934, calls the place “a little Klondike.”

  p. 186 “Except she had still been pathetic”: McAlmon 54-55.

  p. 186 “Never do we fete our own worker”: ibid.

  p. 186 After founding Contact, that was his interest too: Mariani 1990, 175, quotes McAlmon as saying, “We will be…American.”

  p. 186 “One’s own place in one’s own idiom”: Mariani 1990, 174.

  p. 186 “Very sensitive”: McAlmon 55-56.

  p. 187 “Isn’t this modern poetry awful?”: ibid., 56.

  p. 187 “I’d like to take art and drown it in the river”: ibid.

  p. 187 “Greater poet if he put more social content into his work”: McAlmon 56-57.

  p. 187 Faun-eared young man: Josephson 1962, 72.

  p. 187 “She-ass”: Mariani 1990, 172.

  p. 187 “I used to like Dora”: McAlmon, 54.

  p. 187 “It’s only ten cents”: McAlmon, 61.

  p. 187 “Tenderness in intercourse not the same in life”: McAlmon 63.

  p. 187 “Machine Dance Blues”: McAlmon 1929, 36.

  p. 188 “The stability of his sentences”: Moore 2
002, 28.

  Chapter 21 — Broom’s Demise

  p. 189 “Glamour…would carry us over”: Loeb 1959, 77.

  p. 189 “Who ain’t a slave?”: The back cover can be viewed at sites.davidson.edu/littlemagazines/broom-gallery.

  p. 189 Strikingly Cubist/Futurist: “Medgyes to Comment on European Stage Design.” Vassar Miscellany News 19 Oct. 1927.

  p. 189 Josephson Dadaist, economic history: Marshall 2005, 630.

  p. 189 Josephson satirizes “Foreign Exchange”: “Made in America.” Broom June 1922, 266.

  p. 190 “Elaborately odd job application”: North 2007.

  p. 190 “I am further hindered”: Ridge to Loeb, 11 July 1922.

  p. 190 Loeb rejected and complained: Loeb to Ridge, 15 July 1922.

  p. 190 “If you are still a comrade”: ibid.

  p. 190 Publisher for Rodker: Loeb to Ridge, 29 July 1922.

  p. 190 “Thankful that you exist”: ibid.

  p. 190 “Wiry energy and frail determination”: Farrar 1922.

  p. 190 “Pitied his inability”: Loeb 1959, 121.

  p. 190 “No longer a forum”: Loeb to Ridge, 3 Oct. 1922.

  p. 190 “I can not”: Ridge to Loeb, 11 July 1922.

  p. 191 “Hollow, erudite obscurity”: Loeb to Ridge, 12 Apr. 1922.

  p. 191 Lost her manuscript: Ridge to Loeb, [1922].

  p. 191 Scott admonished Ridge: Scott to Ridge, [late] 1921.

  p. 191 “I could just see you”: Scott to Ridge, 1924.

  p. 191 Collected by Gertrude Stein: “Louis Marcoussis” and “Alice Halicka,” ecoledeparis.org.

  p. 192 “Why don’t you write your mother”: Ridge to Loeb, 5 Aug. 1922.

  p. 192 Hoping to interest Moody’s widow: Ridge to Loeb, 26 Aug. 1922.

  p. 192 Anti-Spanish American war poems: Pinkerton and Hudson 2004, 237.

  p. 192 Many writers, Robert Frost: Dunbar 1948, 182.

  p. 192 “Vachel Lindsay also here”: Ridge to Loeb, 5 Aug. 1922.

  p. 192 Rodker the unofficial English editor: Loeb to Ridge, 7 Sept. 1922.

  p. 193 “Working without pay…the devil”: Loeb to Ridge, 11 Sept. 1922.

  p. 193 Loeb to Berlin: Josephson 1962 writes, “The somewhat lower costs and superior facilities we would find in Germany, in my view, would help prolong Broom’s existence” (188, my italics).

  p. 193 A month late, losing publicity, ads: Ridge to Loeb, 20 Oct. 1922.

  p. 193 Ridge increased the subscription base: Leick 2008, 126.