p. 240 Porter’s coverage of Mexico: Reuben 2014.
p. 240 “No good to us alive”: Porter 1977.
p. 240 Ridge and Millay marched away: “Demonstrations for Sacco and Vanzetti 1925 [sic].” Online film clip. YouTube. Google, 1 Aug. 2011. youtu.be/1aAVU6VIedg.
p. 240 “Justice is dead in Massachusetts”: Gurko 1962, 185.
p. 240 Three-fourths of Harvard Law: Gordon and Gordon 1995, 171.
p. 240 “The judge…portentously”: Porter 1977.
p. 241 Money provided by Edward James: Hamilton 2001.
p. 241 Martial law in Boston: Meade 1989, 180.
p. 241 Planes circled: ibid., 183.
p. 241 Dos Passos covered for the Worker: Neville 2004, 135.
p. 241 “Let them out!”: Meade 1989, 183.
p. 241 “Quiet in the tense office”: Marks 1929, 33.
p. 241 “Two in the Death House”: Ridge, in Trent and Cheney 1928, 36-38.
p. 241 Machine guns and search lights, “silent figures against the grim gray”: “Sacco and Vanzetti Put to Death Early This Morning,” New York Times 23 Aug. 1927, 1.
p. 242 Ridge led a group of fifty: Marks 1929, 36.
p. 242 Met by armed mounted police: Porter 1977, 192.
p. 242 Eye-witness account of the assault: Porter 1977.
p. 242 “Lola Ridge slipped under the ropes”: Marks 1929, 36.
p. 242 “The beginning of the end”: Porter 1977.
p. 243 “Such a weight of pure bitterness”: ibid.
p. 243 “Marched the streets alone”: Cowley 1994/1951, 221.
p. 243 “Each into his personal isolation”: ibid.
p. 243 “Responded with a great sob”: Kahn 1950, 101.
p. 243 International rioting: Felix 1965, 230.
p. 243 Procession of fifty thousand: Marks 1929, 58.
p. 243 Tremendous funeral, all footage destroyed: Watson 2008, 349; and Young and Kaiser 1985, 6.
p. 243 “Distributing anarchistic literature”: Marks 1929, 59-60
p. 243 Marched until charged by police: ibid.
p. 243 “Prepared to martyr herself”: Maun 2012, 24.
p. 244 “Glad to see that our dear Lola Ridge”: Goldman to Scott, 3 Sept. 1927.
PART IV:
YADDO, FIREHEAD, BAGHDAD, DANCE OF FIRE, TAOS,
1929-35
Chapter 26 — Yaddo and the Writing of Firehead
p. 247 “Henry James to MacDowell’s Henry David Thoreau”: Robert Towers, qtd. in Nathan 1993.
p. 247 Drunken John Cheever: “A Chance to Peek Inside Yaddo,” Tan 2011.
p. 247 Gurganus’ theory: Gurganus 2008, 59.
p. 247 Arrived at the colony: Kukil 2014.
p. 247 Trask’s firm: spencertraskco.com/about/the-legacy.
p. 247 Trask’s ill fortune: ibid.
p. 247 Poe had written there: yaddo.org/yaddo/history.shtml.
p. 247 “Creating, creating, creating”: ibid.
p. 247 Train wreck: “Spencer Trask Dead in a Train Wreck,” New York Times 1 Jan. 1910.
p. 247 Katrina survived him thirteen years: yaddo.org/yaddo/history.shtml.
p. 248 Ames hired: ibid.
p. 248 Ames invites Ridge: Ames to Ridge, 20 Feb. 1929.
p. 248 Offered another month: Ames to Ridge, 11 Aug. 1929.
p. 248 “Support of artists at political risk”: yaddo.org/yaddo/history.shtml.
p. 248 “The Lowell Affair”: ibid.
p. 248 Kreymborg and Lewis Mumford: Kukil 2014.
p. 248 Ridge was criticizing: Saturday Review of Literature 29 June 1929, 1145; and Kukil 2014.
p. 248 “Americans are the most malleable”: Ridge 1921[b].
p. 248 “Heaven[s] what a job”: Ridge to Louise Adams Floyd, [June 1929].
p. 248 Ridge and others reviewed positively: Van Doren 1930.
p. 248 “Too sure of myself”: Ridge to Lawson, 1 June 1929.
p. 248 Ames warmed to few: ibid.
p. 248 Single bed in place of double: Nathan 1993.
p. 248 “I admire you with all my heart”: Ames to Ridge, 25 June 1929.
p. 249 “I like to be shut in”: Ridge to Louise Adams Floyd, [June 1929].
p. 249 “Ames persuaded her to stay”: Ames to Ridge, 20 Feb. 1929.
p. 249 “Mrs. Trask’s gentle presence”: Ridge to Floyd, n.d.
p. 249 Judas from Jones: Ridge to Llewellyn Jones, n.d.
p. 249 “Most comprehensive…scholarly”: Powys 2011, 518.
p. 249 The books her husband sent: Ridge to Lawson, 10 June 1929.
p. 249 Jesus, the Son of Man: Gibran 1928.
p. 249 “Gilbran is more formalized”: Ridge to Floyd, [1928].
p. 249 “Poor little circumscribed temperate Jesus”: Ridge to Floyd, [1931].
p. 249 Admired Jeffers: Scott to Ridge, 8 May 1927.
p. 249 “Eucalyptus Trees”: Jeffers 1916, 153.
p. 250 “That great death-carrier”: Ridge 1929[b].
p. 250 “One hour’s sleep”: Lawson to Ridge, 25 Aug. 1929.
p. 250 Begs for Gynergen: Lawson to Ridge, 31 July–Sept. 1929.
p. 250 Side effects of Gynergen: drugs.com/mmx/gynergen.html.
p. 251 Corax to calm herself: Ridge to Lawson, 1 Sept. 1929, and Lawson to Ridge, 16 Aug. 1930.
p. 251 Constipation and hallucination: rxlist.com/Librium-drug.htm.
p. 251 “I could not concentrate”: Ridge to Lawson, 18 June 1929, in which she writes, “I have to take castor oil every third night.” See also Ridge to Lawson, 14 June 1929.
p. 251 Over-the-counter narcotics: Rada 2011.
p. 251 Lithium citrate in 7-Up: Bellis 2013.
p. 251 “Some demoniacal logic”: Marks 1925, 170.
p. 251 “Power and passion were made greater by tuberculosis”: ibid., 182.
p. 251 “Opium taken within bounds”: ibid., 184.
p. 251 “Annie Laurie”: “Winifred Sweet Black,” Encyclopaedia Britannica Online Academic Edition, 2014.
p. 252 The Hasheesh Eater: Ludlow 1857, 13.
p. 252 “Looking forward to coming up”: Lawson to Ridge, 19 June 1929.
p. 252 $28 suit, suggestion that she come to New York: Lawson to Ridge, 4 and 13 July 1929.
p. 252 “Worked til 3 am”: Ridge to Lawson, 16 July 1929.
p. 252 “Glad to see you and read your poem”: Lawson to Ridge, 29 July 1929.
p. 252 Began to fix up her studio: Lawson to Ridge, 27 July 1929, 25 Aug. 1929, and 28 Aug. 1929.
p. 252 “I feel like a race horse”: Ridge to Louise Adams Floyd, 29 Aug. 1929.
p. 252 “Very pleased you’ve got so much done”: Lawson to Ridge, 8 Aug. 1929.
p. 253 “You are creating great literature”: ibid.
p. 253 “378 lines in two days”: Ridge to Lawson, 12 Aug. 1929.
p. 253 Benét had found her Payson and Clarke: Scott to Ridge, 27 Aug. 1929.
p. 253 Whenever she could produce it: Ridge to Lawson, 25 Sept. 1929.
p. 253 Benét to edit: Ridge to Lawson, 25 Aug. 1929.
p. 253 Seldom went down for dinner: Ridge to Lawson, 10 June 1929.
p. 253 Eisenberg’s character sketch: Horoscope for Lola Ridge, 23 July 1929, Lola Ridge Papers, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, MA.
p. 253 “Made for everyone to worship”: Kay Boyle to Joan Boyle, 19 Nov. 1923, qtd. in Mellen 1994, 50.
p. 253 Paul Bowles in attendance, and Dahlberg: Lesley Leduc, personal communication.
p. 253 “The one I like best is Gerald Sykes”: Ridge to Louise Adams Floyd, n.d.
p. 253 Couldn’t write after talking to Benét: Ridge to Lawson, 19 July 1929.
p. 253 Fitts translating from Latin: “Dudley Fitts,” Encyclopaedia Britannica Online Academic Edition, 2013.
p. 254 Scott and Metcalfe: Lawson to Ridge, 29 Aug. 1929; and L. Leduc, personal communication containing a list of all guests during Ridge’s two stays at Yaddo.
p. 254 Dedication to Ridge: Scott 1929.
/> p. 254 Eda Lou Walton: Kellman 2005, 103.
p. 254 Mead disapproving of Walton: ibid., 101.
p. 254 “Voyeurs of the ‘liberal’ persuasion”: ibid., 104.
p. 254 Walton on UnAmerican list: U.S. Cong. 1944.
p. 254 Ridge and Walton published together: Poetry Apr./Sept. 1920.
p. 254 “I’m seeing no one and it wouldn’t help”: Lawson to Ridge, 14 Aug. 1929.
p. 254 “Only death will stop me”: Ridge to Lawson, 27 Aug. 1929.
p. 254 “It isn’t worth it”: Lawson to Ridge, 28 Aug. 1929.
p. 254 “The boat at Albany”: Lawson to Ridge, 29 Aug. 1929.
p. 254 “Only your personal condition and work”: Lawson to Ridge, 1 Sept. 1929.
p. 255 “His will foil any chance of mine selling”: Ridge to Lawson, 2 Sept. 1929.
p. 255 Davy met her with roses: Ridge to Ames, 16 Sept. 1929.
Chapter 27 — Firehead’s Success
p. 256 “225 copies on rag paper”: Kukil 2014.
p. 256 Sixty reviews: The idea of a poem receiving sixty reviews today is laughable. Many excellent books receive a single review, or none, although this has changed somewhat with the Internet.
p. 256 “Ecce Homo”: Hutchinson 1929.
p. 256 Society pages: Kokomo Tribune 12 Nov. 1930.
p. 256 “Poet Has Perfect Command”: Stone 1930.
p. 256 “New Poetic Heights”: Morgan 1930.
p. 256 “Mighty Poem of Crucifixion”: Bradley 1929.
p. 256 “One of possibly three”: “Close Reading of Haskin…” The Helena Daily Independent 12 Jan. 1930.
p. 256 “This is magnificent work”: Benét 1929.
p. 256 “One of the most impressive creations”: Untermeyer 1929.
p. 256 “Proud indeed—and very humble”: Ames to Ridge, 16 Dec. 1929.
p. 256 “It was ordained”: Ridge to Lawson, 25 Oct. 1931.
p. 256 “Lunch with all my publishers”: Ridge to Louise Adams Floyd, 12 Dec. 1929.
p. 257 “A man dangerous to governments”: Ridge 1929[a], 203.
p. 257 Some form of inner violence: Lisella 2002.
p. 257 “Deep blaze of tenderness”: Ridge 1929[a], 134.
p. 257 “Tits[z]ell…talked me up”: Ridge to Louise Adams Floyd, 12 Dec. 1929.
p. 257 Titzell, the man-in-the-know: “The Perennial Bachelor,” 1925 by Anne Parrish, Brandeis Best Sellers Database. unsworth.unet.brandeis.edu/courses/bestsellers.
p. 257 “Founded on a complete misconception”: Ridge to Floyd, 12 Dec. 1929.
p. 257 “Stung tinglingly awake”: Hutchinson 1929.
p. 257 Written in direct response to Sacco and Vanzetti: Vicary 2000; and Sproat to Burke, 19 June 1978.
p. 258 Began writing after their deaths: Quartermain 1987, 359; and Benét 1933, 52.
p. 258 “Most famous victim of institutionalized murder”: Berke 2001, 40.
p. 258 America Arraigned: Trent and Cheney 1928.
p. 258 Another Pontius Pilate, “Two Crucified”: ibid., 52, 57. See also Kramer and Goodman 2011.
p. 258 “Two in the Death House”: qtd. in Kramer and Goodman 2011, 273.
p. 258 “He was but eleven then”: Ridge 1929, 133.
p. 259 “I did not love him”: ibid., 136.
p. 259 Letters stopped coming from her son: Bernand-Wehner personal communication. June 9, 2015.
p. 259 “He is old enough now to have read”: Scott to Ridge, [Aug.] 1930.
p. 259 “Ridge has attempted too much”: Applegate 1932.
p. 259 “Fiercely maternal urgency”: Drake 1987, 4.
p. 259 “Anachronistic poetess-like lyric style”: Lisella 2002.
p. 259 “Scalding lavas”: Ridge 1929, 95.
p. 259 “O hills”: ibid.
p. 260 “Take back thy son”: ibid., 98.
p. 260 “Nice is…laughable”: Ridge to Floyd, 12 Aug. 1932.
p. 260 John Haynes Holmes: Schulz 2004, 95; and Sprecher 2002.
p. 260 Reading at the Park Avenue Community Church: Columbia Daily Spectator, 16 Jan. 1931. See also Austin 1979, 118, for the invitation.
p. 260 “Criticism beyond me”: Gerald Sykes to Ridge, 2 Jan. 1930.
p. 260 She supported his Guggenheim application: Kukil 2014.
p. 261 “Christ’s mystic power”: Marianne Moore to Ridge, 19 Sept. 1929.
p. 261 “Reiterated images of light”: Gregory and Zaturenska 1946, 446.
p. 261 The two books reviewed together: For example, Ford 1929; Gale 1931; Haines 1929; and Hartsock 1930.
p. 261 Jeffers influenced by Noh plays: “Works by Jeffers,” robinsonjeffersassociation.org.
p. 261 Jeffers wasn’t interested in Christianity: Thesing 1995, 123.
p. 261 “Jeffers is more subtly and more sophisticated”: Hartsock 1930.
p. 261 “Ridge’s book is…more momentous”: Salemson 2002, 74.
p. 261 “Thinking seriously about our selection…”: Robinson Jeffers to Harriet Monroe, 11 Apr. 1932, in Karman 2009.
p. 262 “Jeffers was for me”: Ridge to Louise Adams Floyd, n.d.
p. 262 “A great puritan poet”: Ridge to Floyd, n.d.
p. 262 Dedicated a poem, recommended him, shared his work: Ridge to Owen Small, 31 Jan. 1931. The ailing Mr. Small of Saranac Lake sent requests for recommendations to Edward Arlington Robinson, Louis Untermeyer, and Canadian writer Constance Lindsay Skinner. These requests can be found in the Edward Arlington Robinson Papers, NYPL; the Library of Congress; and Boutilier and Prentice 1997, 162, respectively. See also Ridge to Floyd, 7 Aug. 1932.
p. 262 “Hang Hitler and Roosevelt in one tree”: Jeffers 1991, “Fantasy,” 109.
p. 262 Anarchism caused him to fall out of favor: “Robinson Jeffers,” poets.org.
p. 262 Firehead was to be set in NY: Ridge to B. W. Huebsch, 11 May 1929.
p. 262 Lightwheel: Berke 2001, 83.
p. 262 Waterwheels in Kanieri Township: “The Kanieri and Waimea Districts,” West Coast Times 11 Feb. 1870, 3. And Mary Rooney, personal communication, 10 Feb. 2013.
p. 262 Ever-present threat of fire: “Destruction of the Fire Brigade Hall and Bell Tower,” Grey River Argus 16 Jan. 1875. This article tells the story of a lightning strike that burned down the firehall while they were celebrating the purchase of a new fire engine. All was destroyed but the fire engine, named “Surprise.”
p. 262 “In case I want to make alterations”: Ridge to Lawson, 18 July 1929.
p. 263 “The poet does have that authority”: Hart Crane to Harriet Monroe, printed in Poetry Oct. 1926, 235.
p. 263 “Pope might translate Shakespeare”: Deutsch 1935, 23.
p. 264 “Thy Guerdon…Accolade thou dost bestow”: Crane 1987, 1.
p. 264 “The Bridge does not succeed”: Jarrell 1999, 245.
p. 264 “Hardly understand a single line”: Williams 2006/1936, 35.
p. 264 “Set above Yeats and Stevens”: Bloom 1991.
p. 264 “Greatest contemporary American love poem”: Vendler 1969.
p. 264 “Non-rational, connotative connections”: Yezzi 2007.
p. 264 Childhood friend of Crane: Fisher 2002, 248.
p. 264 “Concerted effort to promote him”: Introduction, Field (fall 2006), 9.
p. 265 “Mostly I’ve loved lines”: ibid., 16.
p. 265 “Overly sweeping and mythic”: ibid., 38.
p. 265 “Fondness for bombast”: ibid., 47.
p. 265 “Institutions of privacy”: Dean 1996, 84.
p. 265 “Subverts both the modernism and the Marxism”: Daly 2002.
p. 266 “Promotion…plays a role”: Nelson 1989, 35.
p. 266 “We were not yet acquainted”: qtd. in Pondrom 2011, 4.
p. 266 “A wealthy Scottish family: Kissane 2009.
p. 266 “Verlaine’s bed-time…Alchemy”: Mirrlees 1919, 22.
p. 266 Joyce’s doppelganger: “Abraham Lincoln Gillespie” 2010.
p. 267 Link, groomed for bourgeois life: Leon 1980.
p. 267 Published in Transition: “Abraham Lincoln Gillespie” 2010.
p. 267 “Sweettrustmisery-Eyed…”: Gillespie 1980.
p. 267 One room stone house: Leon 1980.
p. 267 Gillespie’s sonic performances: “Abraham Lincoln Gillespie” 2010.
p. 267 Occupation, “none”: Swift 2006.
Chapter 28 — Return to Yaddo: Taggard and Copland
p. 268 Settled in her old room: Ridge to Lawson, 10 July 1930.
p. 268 “In a beastly temper”: Ridge to Louise Adams Floyd, [Apr. 1930].
p. 268 Invited for a second stay despite restriction: Kukil 2014.
p. 268 Entertained visitors in her room: ibid.
p. 268 Taggard’s visit: Ridge to Lawson, 12 July 1930.
p. 268 “At last you are here”: qtd. in Kukil 2014.
p. 268 Formative years in Hawaii: Nancy Berke, “Genevieve Taggard: Biographical Note,” Modern American Poetry, english.illinois.edu.
p. 268 Helped publicize Sun-Up: Berke 2001, 28. Ridge also critiqued a story she sent to Broom. Ridge to Taggard, n.d. NYPL Manuscripts and Archives.
p. 268 Co-founded The Measure: Nancy Berke, “Genevieve Taggard: Biographical Note,” Modern American Poetry Site. See also Berke 2001, 28.
p. 268 “The Alianthus Tree”: The Measure: A Journal of Poetry Apr. 1921, 16.
p. 269 Dickinson’s ordinary life: Benfey 2008.
p. 269 Taggard and Ridge contributed to New Masses: Laura Morris, Guide to the Genevieve Taggard Papers, 2011, NYPL.
p. 269 “Hold a wider consciousness”: Taggard 1938.
p. 269 “Control and…abandon”: Taggard 1925, 35.
p. 269 Taggard to Russia, Ridge to Baghdad: Berke 2001, 97.
p. 269 “Script for collective chants”: qtd. in Drake 1987, 89.
p. 269 Interest in African American lyric: Berke 2001.
p. 269 “Dynamo Poets”: Wald 1994, 153.
p. 269 Editor died from poverty: Genevieve Taggard, “Sol Funaroff,” in Wald 2002.
p. 269 “Not Sappho, Sacco”: Rukeyser 1935.
p. 269 Interest in metaphysical poetry: Berke 2001, 112.
p. 269 “Philosophical conception of the universe”: Taggard 1929.
p. 270 “Emotion…is in disrepute”: Ridge 1930.
p. 270 The notice which appeared: ibid.
p. 270 Copland set “Lark” to music: Laura Morris, Guide to the Genevieve Taggard Papers, 2011, NYPL.
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