The H.D. Book (Paperback)

This magisterial work, long awaited and long the subject of passionate speculation, is an unprecedented exploration of modern poetry and poetics by one of AmericaOCOs most acclaimed and influential postwar poets. What began in 1959 as a simple homage to the modernist poet H.D. developed into an expansive and unique quest to arrive at a poetics that would fuel DuncanOCOs great work in the 1970s. 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, DuncanOCOs wide-ranging book is especially notable for its illumination of the role women played in creation of literary modernism. Until now, "The H.D. Book" existed only in mostly out-of-print little magazines in which its chapters first appeared. Now, for the first time published in its entirety, as its author intended, this monumental workOCoat once an encyclopedia of modernism, a reinterpretation of its key players and texts, and a record of DuncanOCOs quest toward a new poeticsOCois at last complete and available to a wide audience."

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	The Collected Writings of Robert Duncan, 1
Release date:	2011
First published:	2011
Authors:	Robert Duncan
Editors:	Michael Boughn • Victor Coleman
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 43mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	696
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-27262-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Promotions
LSN:	0-520-27262-5
Barcode:	9780520272620

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