The H.D. Book: Volume 1

by Robert Duncan

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520272625
• ISBN13: 9780520272620
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 696 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"