p. 218 Aestheticizing the machine: Hewitt 1993, 144.
p. 218 Refused managing editor at New Masses: Ridge to Martin Becker, Feb. 1925. American Fund for Public Service Records, New York Public Library, New York, NY.
p. 218 One of the first contributing editors: Berke 2001, 87.
p. 218 New Masses: “The Masses,” The Modernist Journals Project, Brown University and The University of Tulsa, modjourn.org. See also Young 1913 and Zinn 2000.
p. 218 “Socialism, sex, poetry”: Symes and Clement 1934, 280.
p. 218 “Poetry is something from the soul!”: Parry 2005, 291.
p. 218 It attracted illustrators: “The Masses.” The Modernist Journals Project; Young. Young 1913; and Zinn 2000.
p. 218 Editors on trial: Simkin 2014, “The Masses.”
p. 218 Mike Gold became convinced: The New Masses prospectus, Dec. 1925, American Fund For Public Service Records, New York. See also Syssoyeva and Proudfit 2013.
p. 218 Past contributor, shot-lived Liberator: Simkin 2014, “Michael Gold.”
p. 218 Garland’s fund, half the launch cost: “Metamorphosis,” New Yorker “Talk of the Town.” 26 Dec. 1925.
p. 218 “The principal organ”: Foley 1993, 65.
p. 218 “To make the ‘worker-writer’ a reality”: ibid., 88.
p. 218 “Poetry must become dangerous again.”: Berry 2000, 110.
p. 219 Attracting Langston Hughes: ibid.
p. 219 “Gertrude Stein: A Literary Idiot”: qtd. in Gold 2000/1934.
p. 219 Proletarian literature rather than literary leftists: Goodman 2015.
p. 219 “Vague, rootless people”: Gold 1930.
p. 219 Joining Ridge among the “rootless”: Berry 2000, 110.
p. 219 Preeminent author/editor of proletarian literature: Simkin 2014, “Michael Gold.”
p. 219 Struggled with ideological upheaval: Ferrari 1985, 185-186.
p. 219 “Bare throat warm to the wishful rope”: Ridge Mar. 1927[b].
p. 219 “Re-Birth”: Ridge Mar. 1927[a].
p. 219 “Russian Women”: Ridge Mar. 1927[d].
p. 219 “Moscow Bells, 1917”: Ridge Mar. 1927[c].
p. 219 “Our silence will be more powerful”: qtd. in Simkin 2014, “Albert Parsons.”
p. 219 Parsons hanged for talk of violence: ibid.
p. 220 “Could not see salvation”: Gidlow 1986, 81-82.
p. 220 “Without dogma”: Ridge to Leonard Abbott, [1920].
p. 220 Midst of the Red Scare: “Red Scare,” ushistory.org.
p. 220 “This is red, and so am I”: Indianapolis Star 22 Nov. 1922, 6.
p. 220 Two years after Viking’s founding: “Viking Books,” penguin.com.
p. 220 “Possibility of reconciliation with life”: Monroe 1927.
p. 220 “The fire, the earnestness”: Deutsch 1927.
p. 220 “Short-story writer gone astray”: Aiken 1927.
p. 220 Aiken switching from poetry to prose: “Conrad Aiken,” Encyclopaedia Britannica Online Academic Edition, 2014.
p. 220 “Misleads the average mind”: Scott to Ridge, 8 May 1927.
p. 220 Mo-ti: hyperhistory.com/online_n2/people_n2/persons2_n2/moti.html.
p. 221 “Catch a garbled word…”: Ridge 1927, 12.
p. 221 “Only your/words”: ibid, 13.
p. 221 “The beauty of a city dawn”: Monroe 1927.
p.221 Sell one to the British Air Ministry: Foster 2008.
p. 221 “Spread a curtain of death”: “The ‘Death Ray’ Rivals,” New York Times 29 May 1924.
p. 221 Americans claimed to have built one: “Denies British Invented ‘Death Ray’. E.R. Scott Asserts He and Other Americans Preceded Grindell-Matthews,” New York Times 5 Sept. 1924.
p. 221 “A bomb no bigger than an orange”: Alkon 2006, 156.
p. 221 “Glamorous dim light”: Ridge 1927, “Death Ray,” 17.
p. 221 “There is that in the air”: ibid.
p. 221 “Jesus…Washed as a white goat”: ibid.
p. 221 “A stirring at the quick”: ibid., 18.
p. 222 Published as “Om”: The New Republic 2 July 1924, 156.
p. 222 “The Key of Life and Death”: Laker 1933, 112. Laker, a feminist, was a pupil of Julian Ashton’s around the same time Ridge was his student. Dever, Maryanne and Ann Vickery. “Introduction.” Australian Women Writers 1900-1950: Rare Book Exhibition. Sir Louis Matheson Library, Monash University. Mar.–31 July 2007. PDF.
p. 222 “This nuclear/Period”: Ridge 1927, “Death Ray,” 20.
p. 222 “A golden nailhead, burning”: ibid.
p. 222 “Rejoiced over the Russian Revolution”: qtd. in Avrich 1995, 199.
p. 222 Ridge spoke to the Irish Women’s Council: Greaves 1971, 205.
p. 223 Patrick Pearse, Easter Rebellion: “The Poets of the Easter Rising,” 1916rising.com.
p. 223 “Written after Ridge resigned”: Berke 2000, 297.
p. 223 Lynching of a young Jewish pencil factory manager: “Leo Max Frank Bibliography,” leofrank.org/bibliography.
p. 224 “Rapid Transit”: “Williams and Duchamp: Artistic Rebels,” teachmix.com.
p. 224 Toomer’s “Gum”: Jones 2000; and Toomer 1988, 18.
p. 224 “After the Recital”: Ridge 1927, 79.
p. 225 Hayes’ command performance: Owens 2013.
p. 225 “I shall never again even initial a poem”: Ridge to Lawson, 7 June 1929.
p. 225 “No bleached white evidence”: Ridge 1927, “Obliteration,” 97.
p. 225 Sent a copy to Trotsky: Ridge to Louise Adams Floyd, n.d.
p. 226 Eastman and Trotsky: Eastman 1962 offers a very charming description of his relationship with Trotsky.
p. 226 Corrine Wagner: Ridge to Floyd, n.d.
p. 226 Goldwater, iconoclastic bookseller: Dickinson 1998, 78-79.
p. 226 Goldwater, avid chess player: ibid.
p. 226 Trotsky, Turkish exile: “Leon Trotsky: A Virtual Exhibition,” Glasgow University Library Special Collections, special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/trotsky.
p. 226 Williams’ “Russia”: “William Carlos Williams: Biography,” poetryfoundation.org, and Williams 1991, 145.
Chapter 24 — “Brunhilda of the Sick Bed”
p. 227 “Ill and in need”: Mariani 1990, 258.
p. 227 Seiffert’s fifty dollars: ibid.
p. 227 “Take freely what is freely given”: Williams to Ridge, 5 July 1927.
p. 227 Tally of Ridge’s fund: “Ledger sheets for the Lola Ridge Fund,” Evelyn Scott Collection, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin.
p. 227 $8,225 in 2015 dollars: davemanuel.com/inflation-calculator.php.
p. 227 “Stultifies the life of another…to deny love”: Mary Moore to Ridge, 29 Feb. 1928.
p. 227 “Just in the rough my roses”: Mary Moore to Ridge, 29 May 1925.
p. 227 “I hope it gave…indigestion”: Ridge to Floyd, Feb. 1927.
p. 227 “Unheralded nerve and extreme vulgarity”: Scott to Lawson, 2 Feb. 1928.
p. 228 “Incorrigibly improvident”: qtd. in White 1998, 96.
p. 228 “I went one night with Becky”: Scott to Ridge, 18 Feb. 1928.
p. 228 “Ravaged by illness”: qtd. in Tante 1935, 340.
p. 228 “Invalid most of her life”: Swan 1929.
p. 228 “Cannot be denied…cannot be confirmed”: Scarry 1985, 4.
p. 228 Nothing that might warrant the life of an invalid: Ridge to Lawson 4 Aug. 1933 or 10 Oct. 1930.
p. 228 Never seasick: Ridge to Lawson, 26 May 1931.
p. 228 “In that Lu. [Louisiana] swamp”: Ridge to Lawson, 24 Oct. 1935.
p. 228 Took no precautions regarding food or drink: Ridge to Lawson, [17] Oct. 1935, and 1 Nov. 1931.
p. 228 Hospital stays: Ridge to Marks, June 1920, 26 Jan. 1924; Ridge to Lawson, 4 Mar. 1929, 27 Aug. 1933; Ridge to Marshall 22 Nov. [1936].
p. 228 Surgery in 1924: Ridge to Marks, 26 Jan. 1924.
p. 228 “Ward X”: Rid
ge 1927, 90.
p. 229 “Illness rather than age”: Vicary 2000.
p. 229 “The Lady Poets”: Hemingway 1924. See also “Ernest Hemingway in His Time,” Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, DE.
p. 229 Ridge’s weight: Ridge to Scott, 16 June 1928 (mentions 77 pounds), and Ridge to Lawson, 27 July 1933 (“Now 81 pounds, a gain of 9 pounds”).
p. 229 The skinny “new woman”: Stansell 2009, 213.
p. 229 Barely matches husband in height: photographs are in the Lola Ridge Papers at the Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, MA. See also Salter 1992 for Millay’s height. For a comparison between the two, see Millay and Ridge arrested together at the demonstration: Youtube. youtu.be/1aAVU6VIedg
p. 229 “Blown away like a leaf”: McAlmon and Boyle 1984, 19.
p. 229 “Nearer to a skeleton”: Marianne Moore to John Warner Moore, 10 July 1929.
p. 229 Moore at seventy-five pounds: Leavell 2013, 189.
p. 229 Wylie was thin: Hively 2003, 170.
p. 229 Gaunt Virginia Woolf: E. Woolf 2013.
p. 229 Ridge’s doctors baffled: Louise Adams Floyd to Lawson, 1 Aug. 1935.
p. 229 “Voluntary poverty”: Kinnahan 2012, 156; and Vicary 2000.
p. 229 “Devout believer in the humanity of letters”: Williams 1951, 163.
p. 229 “She made a religion of it”: ibid., 146.
p. 229 “Unworldly presence”: Gregory and Zaturenska 1946, 445.
p. 230 Smart Set: Munson 1985 writes, “Its rates of payment were low, but decisions were wonderfully prompt. One submitted little fables, epigrams, plays, short stories and within four days one received payment for an acceptance or the returned manuscript” (120).
p. 230 Sixty dollars of poems in ten days: Ridge to Dawson, [1921]. Mitchell Dawson Papers.
p. 230 A thousand dollars in today’s money: davemanuel.com/inflation-calculator.php.
p. 230 Pound married well: “Biography of Ezra Pound,” poemhunter.com.
p. 230 Loy’s wealthy parents: Burke 1996, 18.
p. 230 H.D.’s family and fortune: Morris 2008, 122.
p. 230 Wylie and Seiffert’s wealth: Keel 2009; and Roba 1985.
p. 230 Millay married money: “Millay Married Secretly,” New York Times 19 July 1923.
p. 230 Pay his college tuition and fees: Ridge, Diary, 21 July 1940, Ridge to Lawson 24 Aug. 1933.
p. 230 “If I have to borrow every cent”: Masses Mar. 1915
p. 230 Asking when he could get a better job: Ridge to Lawson, 20 and 26 Aug. 1930, 27 Mar. 1936, 1 June 1929, and 4 Sept. 1933. Ridge to Marks, Mar. [1920?]: “If only he can hang onto his job…have some money ahead when we leave.”
p. 230 Liked to keep a studio: Scott to Lawson, 9 Oct. 1928.
p. 230 “Duty of rich people”: qtd. in Hahn 1966, 137.
p. 230 The Twenties and the Renaissance: Oja 2003 writes, “Private patronage experienced a major revival in the 1920s” (203). See also Gilbert and Gubar 1988, 147.
p. 230 Goldman a midwife and masseuse: Falk 2005, 29.
p. 231 Ridge at Bryher and McAlmon’s wedding: Guest 1984, 138.
p. 231 “Is it not queer”: Ridge to Louise Adams Floyd, 9 Aug. 1935.
p. 231 Robinson’s sinecure: “Edward Arlington Robinson,” poetryfoundation.org.
p. 231 Pound’s from Quinn: Casillo 1993.
p. 231 Crane’s from Kahn: Kirsch 2006.
p. 231 Frost supported by Amherst, Dartmouth, Harvard: Bromwich 1977.
p. 231 “To hell with all their pity”: Ridge to Lawson, 8 Mar. 1936.
p. 231 “Height of felicity”: Smith 1869, 38.
p. 232 “Contemptuous silence of brick and stone”: Ridge to Louise Adams Floyd, n.d.
p. 232 Doctor paid for her stays: Ridge to Lawson, 9 Dec. 1931 and 20 July 1929.
p. 232 Dawson helped pay: Ridge to Dawson, [1920].
p. 232 Marks in 1924: Ridge to Marks, 11 Feb. 1924.
p. 232 Compliments of Canby and Crane: Ridge to Henry Seidel Canby, [1929].
p. 232 Marshall paid for a workup: Ridge to Content, 23 Nov. 1937.
p. 232 “Unable to consider things … materially”: Ridge to Lawson, 3 Oct. 1935.
p. 232 “The German chef”: Ridge to Lawson, 10 June 1929.
p. 232 “Avoidance of regular meals”: Vandereycken and Van Deth 1994, 2.
p. 232 “Playing with an inch of toast”: Ridge to Lawson, 24 Aug. 1930.
p. 232 “An occasional buttered part”: Ridge to Content, [May 1935].
p. 232 Sick at the Bent Hotel: Ridge to Lawson, 26 May 1935.
p. 232 Ulcerative colitis: connecttoresearch.org/publications/21.
p. 233 Lining of her bowel: Ridge to Louise Adams Floyd, n.d.
p. 233 “Endurance despite emaciation”: Vandereycken and Van Deth 1994, 2.
p. 233 127 lines before breakfast: Ridge to Lawson, 18 Aug. 1929.
p. 233 400 lines as a prelude: Ridge to Lawson, 24 Oct. 1935. See also Ridge to Kreymborg, 12 Oct. 1921, in which she brags of having written 900 lines during a short period in Montreal.
p. 233 “See colors not perceptible”: Roberts 1988, 68.
p. 233 Anorexia and heart disorders: “Eating Disorders,” University of Maryland Medical Center, umm.edu/health/medical.
p. 233 Tried nitroglycerin and complained: Ridge to Lawson, 5 Aug. 1935; and Ridge to Dawson, [1929], which refers to her “old stomach troubles complicated by my heart which every now and then [indiscernible] to stop functioning.”
p. 233 Wylie died of heart failure: Milford 2001, 294.
p. 233 “Myocardial degeneration”: Vázquez et al. July 2003.
p. 233 Death certificate: under Lola Ridge Lawson, 21 May 1941, File No. 10849, Bureau of Records, Department of Health, Borough of Brooklyn.
p. 233 “How interesting he looks in dying”: Sontag 1978, 31.
p. 233 T.B., reputation as the sensitive artist’s disease: ibid., 34.
p. 233 Interesting, romantic, ethereal: ibid.
p. 233 Life of spirit instead of body: ibid., 33.
p. 233 Youth, purity, genius, libido: Byrne 2011, 3.
p. 233 Girls swallowed sand: Dormandy 2000, 91.
p. 233 Arsenic to pale their skin: Pirdeaux-Brune 2007.
p. 233 “Vinegar cure”: Vandereycken and Van Deth 1994, 215.
p. 234 “Great reservoir of consumption”: Dormandy 2000, 240.
p. 234 Dust, dirt, rags, sputum: Brewer 1913.
p. 234 Fatal within five years: Raviglione and O’Brien 2008.
p. 234 “In fact so large”: Ridge to Lawson, 11 Mar. 1929.
p. 234 “Awake all night with pains”: Ridge to Lawson, 29 Mar. 1929.
p.234 Castor oil abused by anorexics: wellness.com/reference/therapies/eating-disorders.
p. 234 Davy smuggled hard candy: Lawson to Ridge, 16 July 1933.
p. 234 Anorexics use hard candy: Densmore-John 1988, 311.
p. 234 Codeine and veronal: Ridge to Lawson, 13 Sept. 1933 and 4 Aug. 1933.
p. 234 “Beautiful and loyal person”: Ridge to Lawson, 11 Mar. 1929.
p. 234-235 “Always taking and seem unable to help”: Ridge to Lawson, 5 Aug. 1933.
p. 235 Doctor liked her sonnets: Ridge to Lawson, 27 July 1933.
p. 235 Clean bill of health despite Mexico: Ridge to Marshall, 22 Nov. 1937.
p. 235 “Brunhilda of the sick bed”: Scott to Ridge, 11 Aug. 1938.
p. 235 Passionate feeling that caused the illness: Sontag 1978, 22.
p. 235 Floyd retired to her room for years: Hodson 2011, 56.
p. 235 Scott, Boyle, and Wylie, sickly: Walker 1991, 76; and “Elinor Wylie,” allpoetry.com.
p. 235 Williams and Lowell, stoic: Walker 1991, 34.
p. 235 Hysteria mimics other ailments: Smith-Rosenberg 1985, 203.
p. 236 “Would take a genius”: Scott to Lawson, 30 Apr. 1929.
p. 236 “Sun machine” and radioactive belt: ibid.; and Scott to Ridge, n.d.
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nbsp; p. 236 “Catalyzing belt”: Leon Srabian to Ridge, 14 Aug. 1928.
p. 236 “Russian intellectual sickness”: Ridge to Jean Toomer, 12 Oct. 1920.
p. 236 “Unless I am very much irritated”: Ridge to Lawson, 1 Jan. 1932.
p. 236 “Inhibiting voices that live within”: Bennett 1986, 10.
p. 237 Callard and Glick suggested suicide: Sproat to Burke, 19 June 1978; and Callard 1986, 164.
p. 237 One meal a day for nine days: Ridge, Diary, 6 Mar. 1940.
Chapter 25 — Sacco and Vanzetti
p. 238 “Most brilliant piece of work”: Jeanette Marks to Ridge, 22 Nov. 1918.
p. 238 “Poetry Shop Talks”: ibid.
p. 238 Included Robert Frost and Amy Lowell: Adams, Katherine 85.
p. 238 “I have not touched my woman book”: Ridge to Marks, [late 1921].
p. 238 “Have not touched my woman book since July”: Ridge to Marks, [1922].
p. 238 Surgery that Marks helped pay for: Ridge to Marks, 26 Jan. 1924 and 11 Feb. 1924.
p. 239 “Enjoying Sappho”: Ridge to Marks, 11 Feb. 1924.
p. 239 Woolley…one of Floyd’s Peace Patriots: Ford et al. 1930, and Leonard 1914/1915, 904.
p. 239 Death of Salsedo, framing of Sacco and Vanzetti: Marks 1929, 85; and “The Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti,” libcom.org/history.
p. 239 “Dubious place in society”: Marks 1929.
p. 239 Court appeals six years: Pernicone 2000.
p. 239 The case is still open: Linder 2015; and “Sacco-Vanzetti Case,” writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/sacvan.html.
p. 239 Worldwide public feeling: Schlesinger 1976, xi.
p. 239 Shaw, France, and Einstein: Gurko 1962, 182.
p. 239 “I was crazy to come to this country”: qtd. in Linder 2015. See also Newby 2006, 345.
p. 239 “Both men…were social militants”: Avrich 1995, 174-175.
p. 239 “An imposing number of liberals”: “Liberals in a Protest,” The Evening State Journal and Lincoln Daily News 10 Aug. 1927.
p. 239 “Worked upon…artistic temperaments”: Sinclair 1978/1928, 645.
p. 240 “Hangman’s Hall”: Bradshaw and Munich 2004, 196.
p. 240 Ridge and forty-four others arrested: Marks 1929, 9, and Carr 2004, 227.
p. 240 “Hang the anarchists!”: Marks 1929, 9.
p. 240 “Not an anarchist…Communist…Socialist”: Marks 1929, 9.
p. 240 Left her estate to King: Meade 1989, 10.
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