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Matte Robinsons’ New Book, The Astral H.D., Released February 2016

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Book cover image for Matte Robinson's The Astral H.D. (Bloomsbury 2016)

Book cover image for Matte Robinson’s The Astral H.D. (Bloomsbury 2016)

We are pleased to announce the release of Matte Robinson’s new critical assessment of the role of the occult in H.D.’s life and work. The book, The Astral H.D. (Bloomsbury, 2016), includes examination of Majic Ring, Trilogy, Vale Ave, Sigmund Freud, Erich Heydt, and much more. Here’s the press blurb:

Modernist poet H.D. had many visionary and paranormal experiences throughout her life. Although Sigmund Freud worried that they might be ‘symptoms,’ she rebelled, educating herself in the alternative world of the occult and spiritualism in order to transform the raw material into a mythical autobiography woven throughout her poetry, prose, and life-writing. The Astral H.D. narrates the fascinating story of how she used the occult to transform herself, and provides surprising revelations about her friendships and conflicts with famous figures-such as Sigmund Freud and the Battle of Britain War Hero Hugh Dowding-along the way.

Congratulations to Matte!

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CFP: American Literature Assn, San Francisco, May 26-29, 2016 (abstracts due Jan 26, 2016)

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We invite paper proposals for a panel the H.D. International Society is sponsoring at the American Literature Association conference, May 26-29, 2016, at the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco, CA. The call for paper proposals is open ended, although we are particularly interested in projects that take advantage of the recent availability of H.D.’s later memoir writing and fiction. Please send a brief abstract (250 words) along with a 1 paragraph bio to Rebecca
Walsh, rawalsh@ncsu.edu, no later than January 26, 2016.

Here is a link to the ALA site for more information about the
upcoming convention: http://alaconf.org/

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Timeline of H.D.’s Publications and Manuscript Production

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Screen Shot of the Timeline of H.D.'s Publications

Screen Shot of the Timeline of H.D.’s Publications

For a multimedia bibliography of H.D.’s publications, including both dates of composition and publication, see this interactive timeline.

This project was compiled by Celena E. Kusch and Kristian Wilson in 2014-2015, with entries based on information in the Silverstein Chronology.

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CFP: Louisville Conference on Lit and Culture since 1900 (abstracts due Sept 14–note extended deadline)

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Paper proposals are invited for an H.D. International Society panel at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, February 18-20, 2016. This is a welcoming conference that is hosted each year by the University of Louisville in Louisville, KY and which typically features a healthy mix of academic and creative writing presentations. Keynote speakers on the program will include Rodrigo Toscano, Johanna Drucker, Mat Johnson, and Lisa Gitelman.

This call for papers is open topic: we are happy to consider work attending to any aspect of H.D. and/or her circle as we field a cohesive panel. Please send 250 word abstracts and a brief bio to Rebecca Walsh, rawalsh@ncsu.edu, by Monday, September 14 (please note that the Louisville conference organizers have extended their own deadline to Sept 15). Feel fee to get in touch with any questions.
For more information, please visit the conference website:

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H.D.’s Circle of Correspondence at Spicy Nodes

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Screen Shot of Node Map of H.D. Correspondents

Screen Shot of Node Map of H.D. Correspondents

Although H.D.’s circle extends beyond the people in her files of correspondence, it is possible to map her circle of friends, acquaintances, and correspondents, based on her archives. The map below shows all of her correspondents based on the finding aids in the Beinecke, Bryn Mawr, and several other special collections libraries (Go to SpicyNodes to see it in full screen). Any overlaps with Bryher’s files of correspondence are also indicated. Click any name to expand and explore further connections. Contacts are nested under the people who introduced H.D. to them. Created by Dr. Celena E. Kusch, co-chair H.D. International Society.

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Monkey’s Moon Film at City Lights Bookshop Blog

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City Lights Bookshop featured the Pool Film, Monkey’s Moon, on its Web site.Screen shot of the City Lights Bookshop blog post of Monkey's Moon film

“Pool Films resulted from the creative collaboration of writers Kenneth Macpherson and Bryher (Annie Winifred Ellerman) and Imagist poet H. D. (Hilda Doolittle). Funded by Bryhers inheritance from a vast family fortune, their projects were fueled by the principals interest…

Source: National Poetry Month: Monkey’s Moon » Abandon All Despair Ye Who Enter Here

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Teaching Tribute to Freud and Borderline

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See Tamara Beauchamp’s Web site for English 102D Topics in TwentiethCourse Web page for Modernist Subjectivities at UC Irvine Century Literature: Modernist Subjectivity for examples of teaching H.D.’s Tribute to Freud.

Pages:

H.D. Reads Aloud | Modernist Subjectivities

Lecture Notes: H.D.’s life, relationship to Freud, and Writing on the Wall

Lecture Notes 2: Borderline, H.D., and Kenneth Macpherson

Borderline (1930) Course Post

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