Translating Air
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Translating Air

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Translating Air

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The hunt over; the kill complete / limping towards perfection, padding / about the room, thorns in her thumbs / Hermes crawling on all fours – / That was the last I saw of Hilda. What is it to remember a life, to relive it, to mythologize it? Things that were said or not said haunt us for a lifetime. In Translating Air Kath MacLean imagines conversations between the modernist poet H.D. and Sigmund Freud during the poet's sessions with him in 1933 to 1934 and the dialogues that continued long afterwards in H.D.'s own mind. Shadowed by uncertainty and memory lapses or blinded by flashes of profound truth, readers are transported to a world of myth, continuity, and human connection. H.D.'s palimpsest account of herself as girl and woman, writer and Imagist, and psychic and spiritualist is engaging and elastic as it pulls readers into a space where time is both endless and sure. Questioning her sanity and a world gone mad with war, H.D.'s personal accounts help us understand what it means to love deeply, to feel passionately, and to think beyond the limits of our individual consciousness. MacLean demystifies and humanizes one of the most misunderstood modernist writers in this stunning collection. Translating Air takes us on a remarkable journey into the known and unknown and allows readers to experience one remarkable woman's struggle to get it right, to live life with dignity, hope, wisdom, and the courage to have no regrets.

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Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Year
2018
ISBN
9780773555242
Topic
Literatura
Subtopic
Poesía canadiense

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. CONTENTS
  4. I Fiery Moments
  5. LAST TRAIN TO WYNCOTE
  6. YES, THEY MUST HAVE BEEN BLOSSOMING APPLE-TREES
  7. RIGOR MORTIS
  8. A VERY BIG FISH
  9. THESE ROSES, THOSE THORNS
  10. YOU SPOKE OF GRAPES
  11. II Resisting Analysis
  12. SMUDGED; I AM LOVE
  13. OF FIRE, OF ASH
  14. MAGNOLIA
  15. WHO BUT THE DEAD?
  16. III What Slender Birds
  17. REFUSING PERSEPHONE’S BOWL OF FRUIT
  18. INS RECHTE LICHT
  19. GIVEN TO UNNATURAL LUST
  20. THE AIR THICK WITH GADFLIES
  21. SIPPING A GLASS OF CHIANTI
  22. SO MANY FISHES, SO MANY LOAVES OF BREAD
  23. ITS OWN TROUBADOUR
  24. IV un-UNKing the UNK
  25. NOT IN HER LOVELY
  26. I HELD OUT MY HANDS
  27. AMONG THE RUINS
  28. ANGELS HAVE FEASTED
  29. BEAUTY MADE ME STRONGER
  30. V Newsreels
  31. HILDA IN THE ORCHARD
  32. WOLF IS A WOLF
  33. HIS HEAD, A POMEGRANATE
  34. RICHARD MANSFIELD’S LAST PERFORMANCE
  35. INSANE, ALWAYS –
  36. THE MYTH CAN NOT BE LOCALIZED
  37. VI Conversing with the Dead
  38. CONVERSING WITH THE DEAD
  39. THE MYTH TURNED
  40. NOTES
  41. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS