Anything That Burns You

by Terese Svoboda

  p. 193 Could ill afford such mishandling: Wheeler 2012, fn 25.

  p. 193 A month on copyright: Ridge to Loeb, 27 Sept. 1922.

  p. 193 Tin box in Moscow: Ridge to Loeb, 30 June 1922.

  p. 193 The work of Marjorie Content: Ridge to Loeb, 4 Oct. 1922.

  p. 194 “I was all set to go back to America…”: Matthew Josephson to Ridge, 20 Oct. 1922.

  p. 194 “Something we have both been dreaming of”: ibid.

  p. 194 Further asserted his editorship: Josephson 1962, 230.

  p. 194 “Pièce de résistance”: ibid.

  p. 194 Josephson as associate editor: Steed 2004, 187.

  p. 194 “The Great American Billposter”: Josephson to Ridge, 17 Nov. 1922.

  p. 194 Already set in motion: Ridge to Josephson, 1 Dec. 1922.

  p. 194 “At loggerheads with Lola Ridge”: Josephson 1962, 230.

  p. 195 “Like the burning of green roots”: Ridge to Loeb, 1922.

  p. 195 “Rhythm of peasantry with…machines”: Jean Toomer to Ridge, Dec. 1922.

  p. 195 Suggested numerous cuts: Whalan 2006, xxxi; and Ridge to Toomer, n.d.

  p. 195 “Asked him to hurry with it”: Ridge to Loeb, 14 Feb. 1923.

  p. 195 “He has not been felt by you”: Ridge to Toomer, n.d.

  p. 195 Toomer revised it twice more: Scruggs and VanDemarr 1998, 129.

  p. 195 “Ridge’s diligent championing”: Kondritzer 1984, 170.

  p. 195 One of the “major forces”: Rusch 1991, 16.

  p. 195 “I thank you Lola Ridge”: qtd. in Whalan 2006, 127.

  p. 195 “Planned…a Negro number”: Toomer to Ridge, n.d.

  p. 195 “People in Hollywood”:Toomer to Ridge [late] Jan. 1923.

  p. 196 “The great negro sculpture”: Loeb to Ridge, 16 Nov. 1922.

  p. 196 “Should be our star number”: Loeb to Ridge, 17 Nov. 1922.

  p. 196 Karl Einstein, “world authority”: Loeb 1959, 129; and Loeb to Ridge, 17 Nov. 1922.

  p. 196 Central to the aesthetics of African art: “Carl Einstein,” trashface.com/carleinstein.html.

  p. 196 “Very wonderful” sculpture: Loeb to Ridge, 17 Nov. 1922.

  p. 196 “Has Toomer any negroe blood?”: ibid.

  p. 196 Mongolian number: Loeb to Ridge, 16 Nov. 1922.

  p. 196 “Shocking sex-suppression”: Broom Dec. 1922, 53.

  p. 196 “A challenge to America to recognize a national art”: Broom Dec. 1922, 82.

  p. 197 90 percent due to Ridge: Loeb to Ridge, 20 Nov. 1922.

  p. 197 “Karintha”: Broom Jan. 1923, 83.

  p. 197 “The Springs of Guilty Song”: Kondritzer 1984, 170.

  p. 197 “Began reaching a wider audience”: Wheeler 2008, 40.

  p. 197 “No one…captured the spirit as lyrically”: Kondritzer 1984, 171.

  p. 197 “Ridge who brokered Moore’s post-Kreymborg contributors”: Schultze, 386.

  p. 197 “He has the fine idea..”: Ridge to Loeb, n.d.

  p. 197 “Forgo colonial histories”: Wheeler 2012, 284.

  p. 197 “Her literary taste was retrograde”: Josephson 1962, 231.

  p. 197 “Much encouraged by your cooperation”: Ridge to Josephson, 1 Dec. 1922.

  p. 198 “Their brutality”: Broom Jan.. 138.

  p. 198 “Is Broom too conservative”: Broom Jan. 1923, 83.

  p. 198 “Any general interest in Stein?”: Loeb to Ride, 19 June 1922.

  p. 198 “Mostly blah! Blah!”: Ridge to Loeb, 11 July 1922.

  p. 198 “RESIGN ON INCLUSION OF GERTRUDE STEIN”: Loeb 1959, 142.

  p. 198 Stein too influential to leave out: Loeb to Ridge, 20 Nov. 1922.

  p. 198 “Am rushing everything”: Ridge to Loeb, 23 Nov. 1922.

  p. 198 “You amaze me”: Marianne Moore to Ridge, 27 Nov. 1922.

  p. 198 Josephson’s “proposition”: Josephson to Gorham Munson, 22 Nov. 1922.

  p. 199 “Josephson refused to send it”: Loeb 1959, 146.

  p. 199 Wrestling match in upstate New York: Brooker and Thacker 2012, 636, list the various versions of their fight.

  p. 199 Munson eventually showed Ridge: Josephson 1962, 231-2.

  p. 199 “The co-operation of Josephson,” “flippant cleverness of presentation”: Ridge to Loeb, 2 Jan. 1923.

  p. 200 “It is not amusing, it is not interesting”: qtd. in Bercovitch 2003, 213.

  p. 200 “Hoax and Hoaxtress”: Kreymborg 1915.

  p. 201 “The din…rises relentlessly”: Broom Jan. 1923.

  p. 201-202 “Stein, whom I found so intriguing”: Josephson 1962, 231.

  p. 201 “Insisted on publishing more of Gertrude Stein”: ibid.

  p. 201 “The effect is entirely disproportionate”: Loeb to Ridge, 20 Nov. 1922.

  p. 201 “Last jerk that snapped the string”: Ridge to Loeb, 2 Jan. 1923.

  p. 201 Not the ideal business partner: Loeb 1959, 132, and Wheeler 2012, 46.

  p. 202 Stein’s obsolescence: Ridge to Loeb, 2 Jan. 1923.

  p. 202 “Lola did not approve … I didn’t either”: Loeb 1959, xv–xvi.

  p. 202 “Struggling with obscure forces”: Ridge to Loeb, 2 Jan. 1923.

  p. 202 Thought Boni was complicating the situation: ibid.

  p. 202 “Dinner at the Broom Tuesday…”: Marianne Moore to John Warner Moore, 28 Jan. 1923.

  p. 203 “A watchfulness between Lola Ridge and me”: Loeb 1959, 152.

  p. 203 Coward: Loeb 1959, 155.

  p. 203 “Big businessman may think it strange”: Ridge to Loeb, 22 Dec. 1922.

  p. 203 “For a rich man with a hobby”: Loeb 1959, 155.

  p. 203 Request to print a long-held poem, comments to Toomer: Ridge to Loeb, 14 Feb. 1923.

  p. 203 Boni had withdrawn: Ridge to Loeb, 23 Feb. 1923.

  p. 203 “Into a vacuum cleaner”: Loeb to Ridge, 28 Feb. 1923.

  p. 203 “One thousand in monthly payments”: Ridge to Loeb, 28 Feb. 1923.

  p. 203 Willard, Loeb’s brother: Loeb 1959, 95.

  p. 204 “I shall fight along”: Ridge to Loeb, 28 Feb. 1923.

  p. 204 “Yes” on Mar. 1: Loeb to Ridge, 1 Mar. 1923.

  p. 204 “You can edit…better than I”: Loeb to Ridge, 1 May 1922.

  p. 204 “Second thought, no”: Loeb to Ridge, 7 Apr. 1923.

  p. 204 “Cable if other plans”: Ridge to Loeb, 7 Apr. 1923.

  p. 204 Willard, sign over subscribers: ibid.

  p. 204 Insisted lists be returned: Josephson 1962, 244.

  p. 204 “Josephson’s father had bought Broom”: Ridge to Loeb, 7 Apr. 1923.

  p. 204 Whether this was a better deal is not clear: Selzer 1996, 109.

  p. 204 Loeb’s request to destroy the letter: Loeb to Ridge, 19 Feb. 1923.

  p. 204 “I will not withdraw carbon of my letter”: Ridge to Loeb, 7 Apr. 1923.

  p. 204 “I had thought that it was your health”: Loeb to Ridge, 20 Mar. 1923.

  p. 204 “Things in a state of confusion”: Josephson 1962, 239.

  p. 205 “That American poet with a pile of saucers”: Lynn 1995, 214.

  p. 205 “I reserved absolute veto power”: Loeb to Ridge, 20 Mar. 1923.

  p. 205 “No mail will be opened”: Ridge to Loeb, 23 Mar. 1923.

  p. 205 “Not permitted to let go”: Ridge to Mary Austin, 31 Mar. 1930.

  p. 205 “Salary balance…a personal debt”: Loeb to Ridge, 26 May 1923.

  p. 205 “Laughed out of any business”: Loeb to Ridge, May 1923 [unsent].

  p. 205 Withholding truth about his finances: ibid.

  p. 205 Toomer had another poem: Ridge to Witter Bynner, [1922].

  p. 206 Another piece from Williams: “Red Eric.” Ridge to Loeb, 4 Oct. 1922.

  p. 206 Carnevali poem: (to Loeb by way of Josephson) Ridge to Josephson, 1 Dec. 1922.

  p. 206 “One of the most important collaborators”: Kondritzer 1984, 10.

  p. 206 “Whole-hearted and unselfish labors”: Broom Aug. 1923, 61.

  p. 206 “Equal voice in editor
ial matters”: Josephson 1962, 241.

  p. 206 By September, Loeb complained: Loeb 1959, 187.

  p. 206 Malcolm Cowley editor at Viking: “Malcolm Cowley, Writer, Is Dead at 90” New York Times. 29 Mar. 1989.

  p. 206 Ran Broom into the ground: Cowley 1994/1951, 188-190.

  p. 206 “In the life of any magazine”: ibid.

  p. 207 The failure emphasizes Ridge’s power: Wheeler 2012, 47.

  p. 207 “A snowflake sparkling”: Josephson 1962, 246.

  p. 207 “Dishonest, treacherous, irresponsible”: Selzer 1996, 110.

  p. 207 “Words couldn’t do justice”: Marianne Moore to John Warner Moore, 10 May 1923, in Moore 1998, 389.

  p. 207 Loeb worked for the government: Josephson 1962, 241.

  p. 207 “No longer wanted to meet ES”: Loeb 1959, 215.

  p. 207 Pushed to review Scott: Loeb to Ridge, 28 June 1922, 15 July 1922; Ridge to Loeb 17 May 1922.

  p. 207 Outrageous, tore apart form: Scura 1995, 313-315.

  p. 207 Scott catapulted Faulkner to fame: Inge 1999.

  p. 207 “Pretty good, for a woman”: qtd. in Meriwhether and Millgate 1980, 49.

  p. 207 Loeb’s reversal of the aesthetic: North 2007. 13-14.

  p. 207 “Ridge’s work with Broom”: Wheeler 2012, 283.

  p. 208 “Plain American”: Broom Jan. 1923, 84.

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

  p. 209 Boyle confronted Loeb: Loeb 1959, 124.

  p. 209 Roused from his bed: Mellen 1994, 62-63.

  p. 209 “Finished by liking him”: Kay Boyle to Ridge, 24 July 1923.

  p. 209 Kay had his letter: ibid.

  p. 209 Sent Loeb a poem: Boyle to Ridge, 8 Nov. 1923.

  p. 209 Boyle felt the economic pinch: ibid.

  p. 209 Grant from the Garland Fund: Avrich 1995, 511; and Maun 2012, 78.

  p. 209 “The artist has been an isolated figure”: Ridge to Garland Fund secretary Anna N. Davis, 8 Mar. 1924, qtd. in Boyle, Kay. Process. Ed. Sandra Spanier. Chicago: U of Illinois P, 2001, xxvi.

  p. 209 Garland helped fund “Woman and the Creative Will”: Sproat’s introduction to Ridge 1981/1919, 21 fn 12.

  p. 209 Dropping off Debs leaflets: Spanier 1986, 9.

  p. 209 Did not persuade the fund: Samson 1996, 83.

  p. 209 Ridge sent a hundred dollars to Boyle’s mother: Berke 2001, 83; and Boyle to Lawson, 18 Feb. 1924.

  p. 210 “Write me all you think”: Boyle to Ridge, 11 Aug. 1924.

  p. 210 “You are not strong”: Boyle to Ridge, 20 Aug. 1923.

  p. 210 Send anything she finds: ibid.

  p. 210 Ridge as associate editor, Boyle as publisher: ibid.

  p. 210 Suggested Ridge take her novel to her publisher: Boyle to Ridge, 15 Dec. 1924.

  p. 210 Demanding Ridge re-read her novel: Boyle to Ridge, 21 Oct. 1925.

  p. 210 Introduced to Evelyn Scott: Maun 2012, 2.

  p. 210 Boyle abandoned her husband for Walsh: Brunner and Nelson, n. d.

  p. 210 Walsh’s magazine and T.B.: Spanier 1986, 17.

  p. 210 Please send the subscription lists: Boyle to Ridge, 12 June 1926.

  p. 210 “Edit and stimulate me”: Boyle to Ridge, 29 Nov. 1927.

  p. 210 “Had a fine raise”: Boyle to Ridge, 12 Mar. 1925.

  p. 210 Scott began every letter with sympathy, illness, poverty: for example, Scott to Ridge, 3 Jan. 1921.

  p. 210 Introduced Ridge to a patron: This would be Lenore Marshall, Scott to Ridge, 10 Sept. 1931.

  p. 210 Ridge’s finances: Bank statements are in the Lola Ridge Papers at the Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, MA. See also Ridge to Lawson, 20 Aug. 1933.

  p. 210 Scott on a monthly stipend: Scott to Ridge, 3 Jan. 1921.

  p. 210 House on Bermuda, piece of land: Scott to Ridge, 1 Dec. 1921.

  p. 211 Her stated reason: Ridge to Dawson, [1921-1922].

  p. 211 Boyle’s new baby: Spanier 1986, 23.

  p. 211 $100 prize, other recipients: “Announcement of Awards.” Poetry Dec. 1923: 161-167.

  p. 211 Commemorative ode to Columbus: “Harriet Monroe: Biography,” poetryfoundation.org.

  p. 211 Began Poetry in 1912: ibid.

  p. 211 “In a Station of the Metro”: Poetry Apr. 1913.

  p. 211 Those featured in the first two years: Moore 2002, 481.

  p. 211 James Joyce soon after: The year 1917 saw the publication of nine of his poems in Poetry.

  p. 211 Monroe did not confine herself to the elite: Lensing 1991, 245.

  p. 211 “The greatest poet is not always the noisiest”: Monroe 1923.

  p. 211 “It’s hard on a man”: Ridge 1927, 23.

  p. 212 “Between his twitching lips”: ibid., 23-24.

  p. 212 Fifth floor in “The Ghetto”: Ridge 1918, 20.

  p. 212 Scott and Ridge at Buzzard’s Bay: Scott to Ridge, June 1921.

  p. 212 Grounds adequate for inspiration: overbrookhouse.com; and Erin Koh, personal communication.

  p. 212 Gilbran drafted The Prophet: Langness 2014.

  p. 212 Mother of eight and two: “On Refusing a Million,” New York Times 28 Nov. 1920.

  p. 212 Garland at suffragist convention: Suffragist Nov. 1920, 278.

  p. 212 Supporter of La Follette: Hunt 1911.

  p. 212 Served on the Committee of 48 alongside Hale: Bridges 1920; “Swinburne Hale Weds Mrs. M. T. Garland,” New York Times 3 Mar. 1921; and “Reds Hire Counsel to Regain Freedom,” New York Times 9 Jan. 1920.

  p. 212 “About to take over America”: qtd. in Irvine 1906.

  p. 212 Yale banned speakers for ten years: Laidler 1922.

  p. 213 Original committee members: Lewis 1922.

  p. 213 “The home folks on Main Street”: Laidler 1922.

  p. 213 “System which starves thousands”: “Garland Refuses Millions Not His,” New York Times 30 Nov. 1920, 11.

  p. 213 Friend of John Reed: Cowen, 88.

  p. 213 Use the money for social change: “Accept $1,500,000 They Once Refused,” New York Times, 10 Jan. 1922, 5.

  p.213 Essay and three books of poetry: Cowen, 27; and Reilly 2007, 307.

  p. 213 Included a poem published in Poetry: Marie Garland’s “Desert” was published in Poetry Oct. 1924.

  p. 213 “Shatter it to bits”: Garland 1917, 79.

  p. 213 “Because I am a woman”: ibid., 23.

  p. 213 Garland’s motherhood: Garland was also a neglectful mother of six and eight adopted children, at least two of whom married one another, according to Cowen.

  p. 213 Scott left Bermuda, 1923: Lloyd 1995/1996, 5.

  P. 213 Traveling on “Arcadian”: “Passengers for Voyage of Arcadian,” EllisIsland.org, The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, 2010.

  p. 213 Marie paid for Ridge’s passage: Ridge, Diary, 16 May 1940.

  p. 213 Including Georgia O’Keeffe: Robinson 1999.

  p. 213 Wrote sonnets every morning: Ridge, Diary, 16 May 1940.

  p. 214 “You are too completely creative”: Scott to Ridge, 1924.

  p. 214 Ridge’s only regret: Ridge, Diary, 16 May 1940.

  p. 214 “The flowers there burned”: ibid.

  p. 214 Lawson’s travel plans: U.S. General Records of the Dept. of State.

  p. 214 “Blue Moon Schooner Yacht to Sail on Adventure Quest in South Seas”: Bridgeport Telegram 8 Oct. 1924.

  p. 214 “Marie Garland Plans Two Year Tropical Cruise”: Portsmouth Herald 1 Oct. 1924.

  p. 214 “One of the finest of her kind”: Bridgeport Telegram 8 Oct. 1924.

  p. 215 “Lola Ridge…and her husband Lawson”: ibid.

  p. 215 “Contribute to geographical information”: ibid.

  p. 215 Ridge looking askance: photograph is in the Lola Ridge Papers at the Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, MA.

  p. 215 Trip around the world called off: Studevant 1941.

  p. 215 Marie Garland decided to marry: ibid.

  p. 215 “Very, very sexy”:
qtd. in Cowen, 33.

  p. 215 Fifty-five and twenty-two: ibid., 30.

  p. 215 A good friend of Adams: Adams 1978, 174.

  p. 215 Rodakiewicz, work with Strand, film on O’Keeffe: Studevant 1941, and “Henwar Rudakiewiez,” thenedscottarchive.com.

  p. 215 “Of course the trip is off”: Ridge to Scott, Oct. 1924.

  p. 215 Ridge had met Groat: Ridge to Austin, 31 Mar. 1930.

  p. 216 Groat third on the Socialist ticket: City Clerk of Somerville, MA, “Elections,” Annual Reports Somerville (MA), 1916, 379.

  p. 216 “Socialist Theory; Should It Be Revised”: The Intercollegiate Socialist 6.4 (Apr.-May 1918): 33.

  p. 216 “Beautiful women I have met”: Young 1939, 445.

  p. 216 Groat served on the Committee of 48: The Committee of Forty-Eight 1919.

  p. 216 Organized the School of Social Science: Gold 2000/1934, 137. Groat supported Eugene Hough, who was involved in the Chicago eight-hour workday movement.

  p. 216 Groat would soon marry Floyd: Hodson 2011, 1.

  p. 216 “Doubtful speaker,” blacklisted: Nielsen 2001.

  p. 216 “War Resistance: What Each Individual Can Do For War Prevention”: Floyd 1931/1932.

  p. 216 “Effort to make civilized people ashamed of war”: ibid. Hodson 2011 mentions St. Bernard (54). See also S. Bennett 2003, 41.

  p. 216 “Socialists being the middle ground people hated by all”: Floyd, Autobiographical MS, 10.

  p. 216 Charlotte Perkins Gilman served: Rodgers 2000, 314.

  p. 216 “There is no female mind”: Gilman 1898, 74.

  p. 216 Marriage primarily an economic arrangement: ibid.

  p. 216 Gilman at “Old Mastic House”: Hodson 2011, 43.

  p. 216 Their visits did not overlap: Marcotte 2012; and Louise Adams Floyd Guestbook, William Floyd Estate, Fire Island National Seashore, National Park Service.

  p. 216 Ridge one among a number that Louise supported: Gold 2000/1934, 137.

  p. 217 Wearing a black model’s smock: photograph is in the Lola Ridge Papers at the Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, MA.

  p. 217 Worked on a bust of Ridge: Ridge to Louise Adams Floyd, 30 July 1931.

  p. 217 “For a perfect peace as for a quarrel”: Ridge to Floyd, June 1925.

  Chapter 23 — Politics and Red Flag

  p. 218 “Individuals will always rule”: Ridge to Louise Adams Floyd, 10 Aug. 1932, qtd. in Berke 2001, 53.

  p. 218 Followed the precepts of Tucker: Shone 2014, 46.

  p. 218 “All external government is tyranny”: Tucker 1888.