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1 online resource (443 p.) |
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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- I: Dublin, Sydney, Hokitika, Sydney, San Francisco, 1873-1907 -- Chapter 1 "One of Them" -- Chapter 2 Ambition in New Zealand -- Chapter 3 "The Smoking Fuse" -- Chapter 4 The Arts in Australia -- Chapter 5 Beyond Sydney -- Chapter 6 Last Links with Australasia -- Chapter 7 "Not Without Fame in Her Own Land" -- II: New York City and Beyond, 1908-1917 -- Chapter 8 "Our Gifted Rebel Poet" -- Chapter 9 David Lawson and the Ferrer Center -- Chapter 10 "Small Towns Crawling Out of Their Green Shirts" |
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III: Modernism in New York, 1918-1928 -- Chapter 11 The Ghetto and Other Poems -- Chapter 12 "Sex Permeates Everything" -- Chapter 13 Others and Its Editors -- Chapter 14 Soirées for Others -- Chapter 15 "Woman and the Creative Will" -- Chapter 16 Red Summer -- Chapter 17 "We Who Touched Liberty" -- Chapter 18 Sun-up and Other Poems -- Chapter 19 Sunwise Turn and Ridge's Broom -- Chapter 20 Broom's Parties and the Making of an American Idiom -- Chapter 21 Broom's Demise -- Chapter 22 Finding the Means: Marie Garland and Louise Adams Floyd -- Chapter 23 Politics and Red Flag |
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Chapter 24 "Brunhilda of the Sick Bed" -- Chapter 25 Sacco and Vanzetti -- IV: Yaddo, Firehead, Baghdad, Dance of Fire, Taos, 1929-35 -- Chapter 26 Yaddo and the Writing of Firehead -- Chapter 27 Firehead's Success -- Chapter 28 Return to Yaddo: Taggard and Copland -- Chapter 29 Europe on Patronage -- Chapter 30 Babylon and Back -- Chapter 31 The Radical Left in the 1930s -- Chapter 32 Shelley Awards, a Poets Guild Prize, and a Guggenheim -- Chapter 33 Dance of Fire from New Mexico -- Chapter 34 Poetry in the Southwest -- V: Mexico, California, New York City, 1935-1941 |
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Chapter 35 Mexico and Romance -- Chapter 36 Retreat from Mexico -- Chapter 37 Anti-Woman, Anti-Experiment, Anti-Radical -- Chapter 38 "The Fire of the World is Running Through Me" -- Chapter 39 Legacy: Fire and Smoke -- Author's Note -- Bibliography -- Endnotes -- Acknowledgments |
| Summary |
The first full-length biography of Lola Ridge, a trailblazer for women, poetry, and human rights far ahead of her time.??This is a rich and detailed account of the life and world of Lola Ridge, poet, artist, editor, and activist for the cause of women's rights, workers' rights, racial equality and social reform. Author Svoboda takes the reader on a fascinating journey from Ridge's childhood as a newly arrived Irish immigrant in the grim mining towns of New Zealand to her years as a budding poet and artist in Sydney, Australia, to her migration to America and the cities of San Francisco, Chicago, and New York. At one time considered one of the most popular poets of her day, she later fell out of critical favor due to her realistic and impassioned verse that looked head on at the major social woes of society. Moreover, her work and appearances alongside the likes of Margaret Sanger, Emma Goldman, Will Durant, and other socialists and radicals put her in the line of fire not only of the police and government, but also the literary pundits who criticized her activism as being excessive and melodramatic. This lively portrait gives a veritable who's who of all the key players in the arts, literature, and radical politics of the time, in which Lola Ridge stood front and center |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures.
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Biography & Autobiography / Women.
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Electronic books
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781936182985 |
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193618298X |
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