SOURCE: "Lynn Riggs as Poet," in The Nation, New York, Vol. CXXXII, No. 3418, January 7, 1931, p. 22.

Gregory was a noted American poet and critic. In the following review of The Iron Dish, he praises Riggs's economical use of language and clear imagery in his poetry.

The surfaces of Lynn Riggs's poetry are clean and cool. One derives casual pleasure from the graceful gestures of his particular lyric gift. He has, however, given us little more than his quick, intelligent grasp of external design. It is not often that we find him committing himself beyond the expression of purely decorative effects. On occasions when he does cross the lines of his self-imposed limitations he is clear and vivid. Note this brief commentary:

We will need even these stumps of cedar,
The harsh fruit of the land.
Our thirst will have to be slaked, if at all, by this thin
Water...