Finding Robert Duncan's H.D. Book

The H.D. Book, by Robert Duncan, is an unpublished manuscript at the Poetry and Rare Books Collection of the SUNY Buffalo Library. Not yet scheduled for publication, it will be issued as a volume in the Collected Writings of Robert Duncan (general project editor, Robert Bertholf) to be published by the University of California Press. Citations to published parts of the H.D. Book appear below. Citations are also arranged by journal title.
For information about permission to cite, copy, etc., published or unpublished portions of the work, contact:

Robert J. Bertholf, Curator
The Poetry/Rare Books Collection
SUNY/Buffalo
420 Capen Hall
Buffalo, NY 14260
USA
716-645-2917 (Voice), 716-645-3714 (Fax)
email: bertholf@acsu.Buffalo.edu
The H.D. Book occasionally appears on the internet, and the OneZeroZero virtual library currently has an Adobe Acrobat version of the Frontier Press edition.
Note: Some chapters are listed twice; I have listed the most recent citation first.

Part 1, Beginnings:

Chapter 1. "Beginnings: Chapter 1 of the H.D. Book Part 1." [Coyote's Journal, 5-6 (1966), p.8-31]

Chapter 2. "The H.D. Book, part 1: Chapter 2." [Coyote's Journal, 8 (1967), p.27-35]

Chapter 3. "Two Chapters from H.D." [TriQuarterly, 12 (Spring 1968), p. 67-82]

Chapter 4. "Two Chapters from H.D." [TriQuarterly, 12 (Spring 1968), p. 82-98]

Chapter 5. "From the H.D. Book. Part 1: Beginnings, Ch.5: Occult Matters." [Stony Brook, 1/2 (Fall 1968), p.4-19]

Chapter 5. "The H.D. Book: Chapter 5." [Aion, 1 (Dec. 1964), p.7-29]

Chapter 6. "Rites of Participation." [Caterpillar, 1 (Oct. 1967), p.6-29 and Caterpillar, 2 (Jan. 1968), p. 125-54]

Part 2, Nights and Days:

Chapter 1. "The H.D. Book: Part 2, Ch.1." [Sumac, 1.1 (Fall 1968), p.101-46]

Chapter 2. "The H.D. Book: Part II, Nights and Days, Chapter 2." [Caterpillar, 6 (Jan. 1969), p.16-38]

Chapter 3. "The H.D. Book: Part 2, Ch.3." [IO, 6 (Summer 1969), p.117-40]

Chapter 4. "The H.D. Book: Part II, Nights and Days, Chapter 4." [Caterpillar, 7 (April 1969), p.27-60]

Chapter 5. [Sagetrieb, 4.2/3 (Fall and Winter 1985), p.39-85]

Chapter 5. "From the H.D. Book, Part II Chapter 5" and "The H.D. Book." [Stony Brook, 3/4 (Fall 1969), p. 336-47 and Credences, 1.2 (Aug. 1975), p.50-52]

Chapter 6. "H.D. Book: Book II, Chapter 6." [The Southern Review, 21.1 (Jan. 1985), p.26-48]

Chapter 7. "The H.D. Book." [Credences, 1.2 (1975), p.53-67]

Chapter 8. "The H.D. Book." [Credences, 1.2 (1975), p.68-94]

Chapter 9. "The H.D. Book, Part II: Nights and Days, Chapter 9." [Chicago Review, 30.3 (Winter 1979), p.37-88]

Chapter 10. "The H.D. Book: Part 2, Ch.10." [Ironwood, 22 (1983), p.47-64]

Chapter 11. "From the H.D. Book, Part Two: Nights and Days, Ch.11." [Montemora, 8 (1981), p.79-113]

Selections from Part 2. Cid Corman, "From the Day Book : exerpts from an extended study of H.D.'s poetry." [Origin, 2nd series no.10 (July 1963), p.1-47]

Related to Duncan and H.D.:

"A Note on the H.D. Book," by Robert Duncan, and many other interesting articles may be found in The H.D. Newsletter, 2:1 (Spring 1988).

"Lecture on H.D." by Robert Duncan, transcription by Robert Bertholf of a 1986 lecture to a class at New College, San Francisco, In: Talisman : a journal of contemporary poetry and poetics, 13 (Fall 94/Winter 95), p.41-61.

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