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Message:: [QUOTE="Potteryplease, post: 10690684, member: 16407"]I've read some of her lyric poems, and, truthfully, they read pretty dated, pretty 19th C-ish: the elevated tone, the celebration of an idealized nature as the salve to urban life, the confining rhyme and iambic meter.... I know everyone writes within the conventions of their time, but for my money, I'll take Emily D (an insane radical genius) or Walt W. (also a radical and a personal hero). Anyway. I digress. I do love the list of people she influenced, helped, and was helped by. Mark Twain, Ansel Adams, Bret Harte, Jack London, Mary Austin, Joaquin Miller, Isadora Duncan. Her membership in the 'Bohemian Club' and her 'salons' makes her sound like a California Gertrude Stein. Good stuff, for sure. My son suggested that I contact the Oakland Public Library (and maybe some of the other libraries) where her surviving papers--- the ones that weren't burned in 1906-- are located today, and donate the picture. I think I'll do that. And I'll be sure to let everybody here know what happens with that. Thanks for the help--esp [USER=17270]@Roaring20s[/USER]![/QUOTE]