See Tamara Beauchamp’s Web site for English 102D Topics in Twentieth 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…
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Lesley Wheeler posts a poem inspired by H.D.’s Trilogy Source: Pretty books, messy drafts | LESLEY WHEELER
The complete program for the H.D. and Feminist Poetics Conference at Lehigh University from September 17-19, 2015, is available online at https://english.cas2.lehigh.edu/content/program. Highlights include opening speaker Nathaniel Mackey and plenaries Susan Stanford Friedman and Cynthia Hogue as well as a tour of historic Bethlehem.
Based on an undergraduate research project with Kristian Wilson from the University of South Carolina Upstate (’15), the Silverstein Chronology, and an H.D. family tree already started at http://wikitree.com, a very nice genealogical background is available, and more will be added in the coming months. The…
In Sept. 2014, The Paris Review posted a birthday wish to H.D. which includes the full video of Borderline. Thank you, Paris Review!
We invite paper proposals for a panel called “H.D. and her Circle: New Directions” at this year’s South Atlantic MLA in Durham, NC, November 13-15, 2015. Papers may focus on work by H.D. and/or those in her circle (Bryher, Kenneth MacPherson, Marianne Moore, Richard Aldington,…
Marsha Bryant (UF English) and Mary Ann Eaverly (UF Classics) will be co-presenting on H.D., Muriel Rukeyser, and Agnes Nemes Nagy at Poetry By The Sea: A Global Conference (May 26-29, 2015). Their slide talk “Beyond Isis: Women Poets, Ancient Egypt, and Social Crisis” takes…
The Hirslanden Notebooks (ELS 2015), written from 1957-1959, offer autobiographical reflections and dream interpretations from this productive period in H.D.’s career. Copies are now available at Amazon.com.
Rebecca Walsh’s new book, The Geopoetics of Modernism (UPF, 2015), includes an impressive chapter on H.D.’s poetry through the lens of global, spatial theories. Other chapters focus on Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Helene Johnson, and Gertrude Stein in relation to both academic and mass geographical perspectives of Humboldt and Somerville, Ellen Churchill…
The study of H.D., the many other modernist figures in her orbit, and the many modes in which she worked has often focused on aesthetic revolution (language, form, genre) and cultural revolutions (gender/sexuality, and lately national identity). This panel seeks to build on and expand…