title: The H.D. Book (The Collected Writings of Robert Duncan)
author:  Robert Duncan 
description: Starred Review. Duncan's (19191988) great meditation on modernism's last remaining question mark finally sees print. Published as the first volume in California's Collected Writings of Robert Duncan series, this lovingly prepared volume presents this long critical work, written in 1960 and 1961, in its full form for the first time. It brilliantly reconstructs the dynamics of Pound, Williams, and H.D.'s complex, charged, evolving poet relations, and of H.D.'s eventual departure from the modernist mainstream into a classicism that exasperated Williams, but clearly fascinates Duncan. It reveals Duncan's own poetic relationship to H.D., with whom he corresponded late in the latter poet's life. It tracks a canonical murder, by which critics (beginning with Randall Jarrell) systematically exclude H.D. from the modernist pantheon. And it shows Duncan, whose great longer works lay ahead of him, struggling to find a poetic kernel within H.D.'s oeuvre. While this book is staged as an elaborate defense of H.D.'s work, and especially her austere and archaic-seeming late poetry, it is best read as the daybook of a poet as he absorbs, thinks through, departs from, returns to, and loves a major antecedent. (Jan.) <br />(c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
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  The Reaver Road
  
  Dave Duncan
  
  An [ e - reads ] Book
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by
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  or any information storage retrieval system, without explicit permission in
  writing from the Author.
  
  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are
  products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance
  to actual events or locals or persons, living or dead, is entirely
  coincidental.
  
  Copyright 1992 by Dave Duncan  
  First e-reads publication 1999  
  www.e-reads.com  
  ISBN 0-7592-0070-X
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Author Biography
  
  Dave Duncan is a Canadian citizen, born in Scotland in 1933. He attended high
  school at Dundee High School and rece