{"product_id":"asphodel-paperback-1","title":"Asphodel - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHilda Doolittle (H D. ).\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"DESTROY,\" H.D. had pencilled across the title page of this autobiographical novel. Although the manuscript survived, it has remained unpublished since its completion in the 1920s. Regarded by many as one of the major poets of the modernist period, H.D. created in \u003ci\u003eAsphodel\u003c\/i\u003e a remarkable and readable experimental prose text, which in its manipulation of technique and voice can stand with the works of Joyce, Woolf, and Stein; in its frank exploration of lesbian desire, pregnancy and motherhood, artistic independence for women, and female experience during wartime, H.D.'s novel stands alone.\u003cbr\u003eA sequel to the author's \u003ci\u003eHERmione, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eAsphodel\u003c\/i\u003e takes the reader into the bohemian drawing rooms of pre-World War I London and Paris, a milieu populated by such thinly disguised versions of Ezra Pound, Richard Aldington, May Sinclair, Brigit Patmore, and Margaret Cravens; on the other side of what H.D. calls \"the chasm,\" the novel documents the war's devastating effect on the men and women who considered themselves guardians of beauty. Against this riven backdrop, \u003ci\u003eAsphodel\u003c\/i\u003e plays out the story of Hermione Gart, a young American newly arrived in Europe and testing for the first time the limits of her sexual and artistic identities. Following Hermione through the frustrations of a literary world dominated by men, the failures of an attempted lesbian relationship and a marriage riddled with infidelity, the birth of an illegitimate child, and, finally, happiness with a female companion, \u003ci\u003eAsphodel\u003c\/i\u003e describes with moving lyricism and striking candor the emergence of a young and gifted woman from her self-exile.\u003cbr\u003eEditor Robert Spoo's introduction carefully places \u003ci\u003eAsphodel\u003c\/i\u003e in the context of H.D.'s life and work. In an appendix featuring capsule biographies of the real figures behind the novel's fictional characters, Spoo provides keys to this \u003ci\u003eroman à clef\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis novel . . . is a considerable lyric meditation on femaleness, sexual and maternal choices, and the meanings of war, history, and violence. Its publication adds a striking text to the modernist canon.--Rachel Blau DuPlessis, author of \"H.D.: The Career of that Struggle\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eH.D. (Hilda Doolittle) was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in 1886. In 1911 she went to Europe where, with Ezra Pound and Richard Aldington, she became a leading member of the Imagist movement. She published many volumes of poetry, from \u003ci\u003eSea Garden\u003c\/i\u003e in 1916 to \u003ci\u003eHelen in Egypt \u003c\/i\u003ein 1961, the year of her death. Her novels include \u003ci\u003eBid Me to Live (A Madrigal)\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHERmione.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.72 x 9.21 x 6.06 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 13, 1992\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47429306712313,"sku":"9780822312420","price":51.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/MVTwC2ArYQ9780822312420_487aa041-70ca-4657-8f86-d8170c04b89f.webp?v=1771445024","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/asphodel-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}