Rough Draft: The Modernist Diaries of Emily Holmes Coleman,
1929-1937 is an edited selection, published here for the first
time, of the diaries kept by American poet and novelist Coleman
during her years as an expatriate in the modernist hubs of France
and England. During her time abroad, Coleman developed as a
surrealist writer, publishing a novel, The Shutter of Snow, and
poems in little magazines like transition. She also began her life
s work, her diary, which was sustained for over four decades. This
portion of the diary is set against the cultural, social, and
political milieu of the early twentieth century in the throes of
industrialization, commercialization, and modernization. It
showcases Coleman s often larger-than-life, intense personality as
she interacted with a multitude of literary, artistic, and
intellectual figures of the period like Djuna Barnes, Peggy
Guggenheim, Antonia White, John Holms, George Barker, Edwin Muir,
Cyril Connolly, Arthur Waley, Humphrey Jennings, Dylan Thomas, and
T.S. Eliot. The book offers Coleman s lively, raw, and often
iconoclastic account of her complex social network. The personal
and professional encouragements, jealousies, and ambitions of her
friends unfolded within a world of limitless sexual longing,
supplies of alcohol, and aesthetic discussions. The diary documents
the disparate ways Coleman celebrated, just as she consistently
struggled to reconcile, her multiple identities as an artistic,
intellectual, maternal, sexual, and spiritual woman. Rough Draft
contributes to the growing modernist canon of life writings of both
female and male participants whose autobiographies, memoirs, and
diaries offer diverse accounts of the period, like Ernest Hemingway
s A Moveable Feast, Gertrude Stein s The Autobiography of Alice B.
Toklas, Sylvia Beach s Shakespeare and Company, and Robert McAlmon
and Kay Boyle s Being Geniuses Together.
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