Letter from Poetry Magazine
Originally Published: November 15, 2007Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor,
John Ridland was born in London and grew up in California. He earned his PhD from Claremont Graduate School and published numerous books and chapbooks, including Ode on Violence (1969), In the Shadowless Light (1978), Elegy for My Aunt (1982), Palms: Six ballads (1993), A Brahms Card Ballad (2007), Happy in an Ordinary Thing (2013), A. Lincolniad: An epic poem honoring the memory of President Abraham...