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Title: The H.D. Book
Condition: New
Author: Robert Duncan
Contributor: Michael Boughn (Edited by), Victor Coleman (Edited by)
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0520272625
EAN: 9780520272620
ISBN: 9780520272620
Publisher: University of California Press
Genre: Literary Criticism
Release Date: 01/05/2011
Description: This magisterial work, long awaited and long the subject of passionate speculation, is an unprecedented exploration of modern poetry and poetics by one of America's 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 Duncan's 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, Duncan's 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 work - at once an encyclopedia of modernism, a reinterpretation of its key players and texts, and a record of Duncan's quest toward a new poetics - is at last complete and available to a wide audience.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Item Width: 43mm
Item Weight: 953g
Book Series: Collected Writings of Robert Duncan
Release Year: 2011

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