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“[I]ndispensable for any serious reader of H.D.’s work.”
—Linda Wagner-Martin, American Book Review
“Michael King has produced a delectable H.D.: Woman and Poet.”
—Martha Nell Smith, Lesbian and Gay Studies Newsletter
“An indispensable resource, the book is worth the purchase price for the bibliography alone.”
–Rochelle Ratner, Belles Lettres
Far from being merely an Imagist miniaturist, as her former reputation held, H.D. was truly a “woman of letters”: poet, novelist, memoirist, critic, essayist, even actress and filmmaker. With H.D.: Woman and Poet we are given the opportunity of re-placing her in the pantheon of 20th-century literature. In recent years, new readers have discovered the excitement and vigor of her various manifestations; this volume brings together the multiple facets of her long dedication to her art.
Contributions by: Perdita Schaffner, May Sarton, Sylvia Dobson, Mary De Rachewiltz, John Walsh, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Susan Stanford Freidman, Alicia Ostriker, Sandra M. Gilbert, Barbara Guest, Albert Gelpi, L. S. Dembo, Adalaide Morris, Diane Collecott, Deborah Kelley Kloepfer, Janice Robinson, and others. Annotated bibliography of works about H.D., 1969-1985.
Contents
Loved of Love
Perdita Schaffner, “Keeper of the Flame”
Mary de Rachewiltz, “For H.D.”
Silvia Dobson, “Woof and Heave and Surge and Wave and Flow”
May Sarton, “Letters from H.D.”
John Walsh, “H.D., C.G. Jung & Küsnacht: Fantasia on a Theme”
The Heritage
Rachel Blau DuPlessis, “Family, Sexes, Psyche: An Essay on H.D. and the Muse of the Woman Writer”
Susan Stanford Friedman, “Modernism of the ‘Scattered Remnant’: Race and Politics in the Development of H.D.’s Modernist Vision”
In the Tradition
Alicia Ostriker, “Staring at the Pacific, and Swimming In It”
John Peck, “A Weaving at the Zollbrücke in Zürich”
Rachel Blau DuPlessis, “Praxilla’s Silliness”
Sandra M. Gilbert, “Lesbos”
Barbara Guest, “Biography”
The Poet
Dale Davis, “Heliodora’s Greece”
Mary K. DeShazer, “‘A Primary Intensity Between Women’: H.D. and the Female Muse”
Albert Gelpi, “Re-membering the Mother: A Reading of H.D.’s Trilogy”
Deborah Kelly Kloepfer, “Mother as Muse and Desire: The Sexual Politics of H.D.’s Trilogy”
The Prose Writer
L. S. Dembo, “H.D. Imagiste and Her Octopus Intelligence”
Adalaide Morris, “Autobiography and Prophecy: H.D.’s The Gift”
Janice S. Robinson, “What’s In a Box?: Psychoanalytic Concept and Literary Technique in H.D.”
Jeanne Kerblat-Houghton, “‘But Am I Wrong’?: A Study of Interrogation in End to Torment”
Joseph Milicia, “Bid Me to Live: Within the Storm”
Film and Photography
Charlotte Mandel, “Magical Lenses: Poet’s Vision Beyond the Naked Eye”
Diane Collecott, “Images at the Crossroads: The ‘H.D. Scrapbook’”
Anne Friedberg, “Approaching Boarderline”
The Testament
Mary S. Mathis and Michael King, “An Annotated Bibliography of Works About H.D.: 1969-1985”