University of Iowa Press, 2000 Paper: 978-0-87745-721-3 | Cloth: 978-0-87745-709-1 | eISBN: 978-1-58729-283-5 Library of Congress Classification PS325.H43 2000 Dewey Decimal Classification 811.509
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
From her work's first appearance under the Imagist label to its later development in innovative long poems and prose, H.D.'s excellence was recognized by her peers as well as her successors. H.D. and Poets After is the first book to explore her influence on contemporary American poetry.
Twenty essays—half by eminent American poets writing about their literary engagement with H.D. and half by critics writing about H.D. in relation to these same poets—provide a fruitful exchange of perceptions and interpretations. The dialogue between these two perspectives—the first autobiographical testimony and the second critical analysis by scholars attuned to both modern and contemporary poetries and poetics—calls into question both traditional notions of literary criticism and earlier theories of literary influence.
The volume includes a range of contemporary responses to H.D.'s work—from Alicia Ostriker's radical eroticism to Brenda Hillman's epistemological restlessness to Carolyn Forché's response to moral disasters of the century. H.D. and Poets After demonstrates key aspects of the poet's continuing importance as a "poet's poet" in the best sense.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
HOLLENBERG,
DONNA KROLIK
“A Wish to Make Real to Myself What Is Most Real”: My H.D.
OSTRIKER,
ALICIA
Motherhood/Morality/Momentum: Alicia Ostriker and H.D.
HOLLENBERG,
DONNA KROLIK
H.D.: A Joining
KELLY,
ROBERT
Sex, H.D., and Robert Kelly
AUGUSTINE,
JANE
From “Perdita's Father”
DOUBIAGO,
SHARON
“The mother is the muse H.D. said”: Re-Membering the Reader in H.D.'s Helen in Egypt and Sharon Doubiago's Early Long Poems
CROWN,
KATHLEEN
A Gift of Song: My Encounter with H.D.
JAFFER,
FRANCES
Again She Says Try To: Frances Jaffer and H.D.
VAETH,
KIM
Haibun: “Draw your / Draft”
DUPLESSIS,
RACHEL BLAU
Renewing the Open Engagement: H.D. and Rachel Blau DuPlessis
HATLEN,
BURTON
The Blank Page: H.D.'s Invitation to Trust and Mistrust Language
FRASER,
KATHLEEN
“I am not of that feather”: Kathleen Eraser's Postmodernist Poetics
HOGUE,
CYNTHIA
Three Thoughts on Trilogy
HILLMAN,
BRENDA
“The Blank Pages of the Unwritten Volume of the New”: Gnosticism in H.D.'s Trilogy and Brenda Hillman's Death Tractates
BARNSTONE,
ALIKI
Interior Scrutiny: Example of H.D.
SCALAPINO,
LESLIE
“Time-less or Hieroglyph”: Self and Simulacrum in H.D. and Leslie Scalapino
FROST,
ELISABETH A.
Palimpsestic Stagger
MACKEY,
NATHANIEL
Angles of Incidence / Angels of Dust: Operatic Tilt in the Poetics of H.D. and Nathaniel Mackey
MORRIS,
ADALAIDE
H.D. after H.D.
FORCHÉ,
CAROLYN
Poetry and Survival: H.D. and Carolyn Forché
GREGORY,
EILEEN
Works Cited
Contributors
Index
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