Article: Women Poets on the Left: Lola Ridge, Genevieve Taggard, Margaret Walker.(Book Review)

Women Poets on the Left: Lola Ridge, Genevieve Taggard, Margaret Walker. By NANCY BERKE. Gainesville, Tallahassee, and Tampa: University Press of Florida. 2001. viii + 202 pp. $55. ISBN: 0-8130-2115-4.

This study consists of an introduction, a brief conclusion, and three chapters focusing respectively on the poetry of Lola Ridge, Genevieve Taggard, and Margaret Walker. In the chapters Nancy Berke offers persuasive and informed introductions to these generally neglected poets. There is an impressive use of archival material, an informed and forceful representation of the 1930s, and a sensitivity to the poetry that is complemented by Berke's apposite use of ...

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