Who is Lola Ridge

Lola Ridge (born Rose Emily Ridge; 12 December, 1873 Dublin, Ireland – 19 May, 1941 Brooklyn, New York) was an Irish-born New Zealand-American anarchist and modernist poet, and an influential editor of avant-garde, feminist, and Marxist publications. She is best known for her long poems and poetic sequences, published in numerous magazines and collected in five books of poetry.Along with other political poets of the early Modernist period, Ridge has received renewed critical attention since the late 20th century and has been lauded by contemporary poets for her choice and ability to write about urban spaces in her poems. A selection of her poetry was published in 2007, and a biography, Anything That Burns You: A Portrait of Lola Ridge, Radical Poet (by Terese Svoboda) was published in 20...
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Lola Ridge Poems

  • Dedication (to My Mother)
    Let me cradle myself back
    Into the darkness
    Of the half shapes...
    Of the cauled beginnings... ...
  • The Tidings (easter 1916)
    Censored lies that mimic truth...
    Censored truth as pale as fear...
    My heart is like a rousing bell -
    And but the dead to hear... ...
  • Snow Dance For The Dead
    Dance, little children ... it is holy twilight . . .
    Have you hung paper flowers about the necks of the ikons?
    Dance soft . . . but very gaily ... on tip-toes like the snow.
    ...
  • Windows
    TIME-STONE

    Hallo, Metropolitanâ??
    Ubiquitous windows staring all ways, ...
  • The Spilling Of The Wine
    The soldiers lie upon the snow,
    That no longer gyrates under the spinning lights
    Night juggles in her fat black hands.
    They will not babble any more secrets to loose-mouthed ...
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Top 10 most used topics by Lola Ridge

Wind 38 Light 37 Night 31 White 25 Red 22 Black 22 Green 20 World 20 Great 20 Fire 17


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Marian_v_o: to the many: collected early works, lola ridge
Bmillsbilly: to the many: collected early works, lola ridge
Herstoryireland: the move to new york saw the birth of lola ridge, modernist poet, utopian anarchist and labour activist, claiming to be ten years younger than she was. to support herself, she worked as an illustrator, factory worker, poet, and model…
Intp_lola: i’ve concluded that if you have a very prominent upper lip ridge, it’s next to impossible to over-line. not that i really like the look, but i’ve tried all the tricks, and you can always still see very plainly where my actual lip ends. makeup trends are weird.
Caralhamilton: the star last night i watched a star fall like a great pearl into the sea, till my ego expanding encompassed sea and star, containing both as in a trembling cup. lola ridge (1873-1941)
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