Here you will find citations to recent publications of interest to readers and scholars of H.D.'s works. Please note that no recommendations are implied; if you have a review that you would like included here, or a work you would like listed, please email me (hh@imagists.org) or post to HDSOC-L indicating which information you would like included here. Thank you for your assistance!
Bryant, Marsha, and Eaverly, Mary Ann. Egypto-Modernism: James Henry Breasted, H.D., and the New Past In: Modernism/modernity Volume 14, Number 3, September 2007.
Bryher. The Heart to Artemis: a writer's memoirs. Paris Press, 2006, with revised index. ISBN: 978-1-930464-09-4. For more information, janfreeman@parispress.org
Bryher. The Player's boy: a novel. Paris Press, 2006. ISBN: 978-1-930464-08-7. For more information, janfreeman@parispress.org
Graham, Sarah. Falling Walls: Trauma and Testimony in H.D.'s Trilogy In: English: The Journal of the English Association Volume 56 Number 216 (Autumn 2007).
This essay is concerned with the impact of war trauma on the poetry of H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), especially Trilogy (1944-46). It argues that H.D. was herself a traumatised subject who was unable to discuss the war directly in her early poetry, partly because of the damaging nature of traumatic experience and partly because she was muted by dominant discourses. The essay discusses work before the 1940s to assess variations in her writing across genres. In Trilogy H.D. openly takes war as her subject for the first time, and expresses her trauma through the poem's fragmented form and its imagery of damaged and inscribed walls, paralleling the present with the ancient past. In this strategy she echoes Freud’s understanding of therapy as a process of excavation. However , H.D.'s attempt to testify to her trauma falters in Trilogy's final stages, suggesting that her experience of testimony did not heal her psychic wounds.
Mandel, Charlotte. [Review of Bryher's reissued politically resonant futuristic novel, Visa for Avalon, with Introduction by Susan McCabe] In: English Literature in Transition, vol. 49, no. 1, 2006.
Zilboorg, Caroline. "What part have I now that you have come together?" Richard Aldington on war, gender and textual representation. (Forthcoming in a collection edited by Angela Kay Smith from Manchester U. Press.)