В книгу входят произведения поэтов США, начиная о XVII века, времени зарождения американской нации, и до настоящего времени.

“My bat-like thought-wings would beat painfully in that sudden searchlight,” H.D. writes in Tribute to Freud, her moving memoir. Compelled by historical as well as personal crises, H.D. underwent therapy with Freud during 1933–34, as the streets of Vienna were littered with tokens dropped like confetti on the city stating “Hitler gives work,” “Hitler gives bread.” Having endured World War I, she was now gathering her resources to face the cataclysm she knew was approaching. The first part of the book, “Writing on the Wall,” was composed some ten years after H.D.’s stay in Vienna; the second part, “Advent,” is a journal she kept during her analysis. Revealed here in the poet’s crystal...

The connections and interconnections of past and present the realization that life is a whole continuously echoing back to the past and unfolding toward the future were sources of the strength, renewal, and joy celebrated in H.D.'s Trilogy and, in a differing, but no less real way, in The Gift her novelistic memoir of childhood."

"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 Although the manuscript survived, it has remained unpublished since its completion in the 1920s.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 Asphodel 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. A sequel to the author's HERmione, Asphodel takes the reader into the bohemian drawing rooms of...

End to Torment: A Memoir of Ezra Pound is the deeply personal journal kept by the poet H. D. (Hilda Doolittle. 1886–1961) in 1958, the year Ezra Pound was released from St. Elizabeth's in Washington, D.C., and returned to Italy. H. D., hospitalized in Switzerland from a fall, was urged to put down on paper, once and for all, her memories of Pound, which reached back to 1905, when she was a freshman at Bryn Mawr and he a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania.

Свой единственный, но широко известный во всём мире роман «Вели мне жить», знаменитая американская поэтесса Хильда Дулитл (1886–1961) писала на протяжении всей своей жизни. Однако русский читатель, впервые открыв перевод «мадригала» (таково авторское определение жанра), с удивлением узнает героев, знакомых ему по много раз издававшейся у нас книге Ричарда Олдингтона «Смерть героя». То же время, те же события, судьба молодого поколения, получившего название «потерянного», но только — с иной, женской точки зрения. О романе: Мне посчастливилось видеть прекрасное вместе с X. Д. — это совершенно уникальный опыт. Человек бескомпромиссный и притом совершенно непредвзятый в вопросах...