Review by Choice Review
These 18 previously published, some excerpted, essays are accompanied by a photobiography, selections from H.D.'s poem Biography, an updated chronology of H.D.'s writing, as well as highlights of H.D.'s life. The editors, Susan Stanford Friedman (University of Wisconsin-Madison), author of Penelope's Web: Gender, Modernity, H.D.'s Fiction (1990) and Rachel Blau DuPlessis (Temple University), author of The Pink Guitar: Writing as Feminist Practice (1990), both authorities on the life, works, and influences of Hilda Doolittle, have collected essays that span two decades of H.D. criticism by the most influential critics and that cover H.D.'s works currently being read or taught. Using a range of methodologies, the essays are organized in topical clusters with titles that evoke particular crystallized moments in H.D.'s career: "Lives"; "Images"; "Palimpsests, Prophecies; Rescriptings." An excellent bibliography, including dissertations. A required "handbook" for all readers of H.D.'s work. Recommended for graduate and undergraduate libraries.-J. C. Kohl, Dutchess Community College
Copyright American Library Association, used with permission.
Review by Choice Review
