Anything That Burns: The Poetry of Lola Ridge

The New York Times obituary would describe Lola Ridge as one of the “leading poets of America,” and in 2011, former poet laureate Robert Pinsky called her “[a]n early, great chronicler of New York life.” She was a chronicler, too, of the working class throughout the industrial Northeast:

Charge the blast furnace, workman. . .
Open the valves—
Drive the fires high . . .
(Night is above the gates). . .

For Zara Raab’s review of Terese Svoboda’s biography of Lola Ridge, Anything That Burns, go to Critical Flame online or clickhere.