The H.D. Book - Robert Duncan

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Résumé :
A meditation on both the roots of modernism and its manifestation in the work of H D, Ezra Pound, D H Lawrence, William Carlos Williams, Edith Sitwell, and many others. It is especially notable for its illumination of the role women played in creation of literary modernism.

Biographie:
Robert Duncan (1919--1988) was born in Oakland and spent most of his life in California. One of the major figures in the San Francisco Renaissance, Duncan, often identified with Donald Allen's landmark anthology The New American Poetry and the Black Mountain poets, is author of The Opening of the Field, Roots and Branches, and Bending the Bow, among other works. Michael Boughn is a poet, scholar, and fiction writer. His many publications include H.D.: A Bibliography, 1905--1990, Dislocations in Crystal, Into the World of the Dead, and 22 Skidoo/SubTractions. Victor Coleman was a founding editor of Coach House Press and is author of one / eye / love, Light Verse, and ICON TACT among many other books of poetry.

Sommaire:
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Book One: Beginnings Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Eros Chapter 4 Palimpsest Chapter 5 Occult Matters Chapter 6 Rites of Participation Book Two: Nights and Days Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Appendix 1: Preliminary Notes Toward Book 3 of The H.D. Book Appendix 2: Composition and Publication History of The H.D. Book Appendix 3: A List of Works Cited by Robert Duncan in The H.D. Book Credits Index