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“Queer Kinship Among the Stars: H.D., Silvia Dobson, and Astrology” by Victoria Papa in Modernism/modernity Plus

  • Posted onOctober 7, 2024October 7, 2024
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Victoria Papa’s rich, multimedia exploration of horoscopes, natal charts, and a zodiac wheel is set within the deep and lasting friendship between H.D. and Silvia Dobson. The article enhances our biographical understanding of H.D. while adding to the critical study of H.D. and the occult.…

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Recalling H.D.’s 1955 Reading of Helen in Egypt

  • Posted onOctober 7, 2024October 7, 2024
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Decades ago, Adelaide Morris and Donna Krolik Hollenberg traced the history of H.D.’s “disk-work,” creating audio recordings of the early drafts of Helen in Egypt in 1955. H.D.’s voice can now be heard in the Penn Sound archives at the Center for Programs in Contemporary…

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“The Most Famous Photograph of Poets Ever Taken”

  • Posted onDecember 12, 2019December 12, 2019
  • H.D.'s Circle

Erwin Tiongson’s Slate article (11 Dec. 2019), “The Most Famous Photograph of Poets Ever Taken,” features a 1948 photo published in Life Magazine. Although H.D. was not part of this group and indeed was convalescing in Switzerland at the time, the image features many members…

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New book by Lara Vetter, A Curious Peril: H.D.’s Late Modernist Prose

  • Posted onJune 21, 2017June 22, 2017
  • publications

The University Press of Florida has just published Lara Vetter’s new book, A Curious Peril: H.D.’s Late Modernist Prose. The monograph offers readings of a range of H.D.’s post-World War II writing: The Sword Went Out to Sea, By Avon River, White Rose and the…

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Using a Visual Understanding Environment to Understand H.D.’s Networks of Influence

  • Posted onNovember 18, 2016
  • resources

H.D.’s archival records include correspondence from 213 individual correspondents, ranging from family and childhood friends to the central writers and editors of literary modernism. By mapping the inter-relationships among these correspondents, we can retrace the shape of Modernist networks that are often female-centered, America-centered, and…

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Excerpt from Larry Jordan’s 1990 film The H.D. Trilogy

  • Posted onSeptember 3, 2016
  • creative inspiration

View a scene from Larry Jordan’s 1990 film The H.D. Trilogy, featuring poet Joanna McClure reading passages from H.D.’s Hermetic Definition.

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Tandy Cronyn Recites H.D.’s “Sheltered Garden” for PoetryTheatre

  • Posted onSeptember 3, 2016
  • creative inspiration

PoetryTheatre offers a dramatic recitation of H.D.’s “Sheltered Garden,” which just happens to be my favorite poem from Sea Garden. Show this alongside “Helen” or “Sea Rose” when teaching H.D. out of limited anthologies, and watch the students’ readings open up in delightful directions.

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Paul Robeson’s Transatlantic Welsh Concert Audio

  • Posted onSeptember 3, 2016
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Listen to the introduction and first song of the Transatlantic Welsh Concert performed by Paul Robeson in 1957 after his passport was revoked and he was unable to travel to the UK. The clip on YouTube includes the introduction to the concert by Will Paynter, president…

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“Borderline Breakdown” Montage by Brianna Harris

  • Posted onSeptember 3, 2016
  • creative inspiration

Brianna Harris’s YouTube site notes that she uses this montage of Borderline scenes when she teaches the film at Hampshire College. She writes, “I used the footage from the silent film “Borderline 1930″ to emphasize the themes of relationships, affairs, and racism vs. romance. You also see themes…

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Nicknames and Acronyms Used by H.D. and her Circle

  • Posted onJune 24, 2016
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H.D.’s letters and even published writing are riddled with nicknames and acronyms (e.g. Fido, Beaver, Bear, Pup, Dactyl, Buddy, Cole, and so many more). Louis Silverstein published a key to those nicknames in the H.D. Newsletter in 1987, and that list remains an invaluable reference today.

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