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brookexwest's review against another edition
4.0
too little: I know, I feel / the meaning that words hide; / they are anagrams, cryptograms, / little boxes, conditioned / to hatch butterflies...
Gorgeous collection of poems. The Walls definitely resonated more with me, but I feel like these are all poems that I can keep going back to and picking up and finding different nuggets in them.
Gorgeous collection of poems. The Walls definitely resonated more with me, but I feel like these are all poems that I can keep going back to and picking up and finding different nuggets in them.
jenna0010's review against another edition
4.0
H.D. is sharp, soft, in this trilogy that spans tumults of history and desert to sea scapes to lushinterior worlds. A protective spirally shell, an angry female hunger, a magical wavering, wandering foot.
kenningjp's review against another edition
5.0
Incomparable. An absolutely essential read. Imagism taken to another level. Vorticism at its best on display in an utterly distinctive voice.
braaais's review
5.0
H. D. consigue crear un universo poético realmente denso a través de su conocimiento de la mitología griega y egipcia bañado en Freud, pero también gracias a su conocimiento de la tradición poética en lengua inglesa.
veethorn's review against another edition
5.0
I need to think about this more, but stunning and epic are poor adjectives to describe what is unquestionably one of our more important modernist works.
morgankailackerman's review against another edition
2.0
Not the biggest fan of poetry. Had to read for a literature class. It was interesting but not as interesting as other poems or poetry books.
masterovcrabs's review against another edition
5.0
Read, in the sense that I began on the first page and followed the bread crumb trail of beautiful words to the last. And yet I know this, like Rilke's elegies or Gass' tunnel, will be a work I revisit and dig through for the rest of my life. There's an entire world in this book; an entire way of being. Doolittle, with the chaos of war still fresh in her mind, created this gorgeous tribute to hope and renewal despite the task of repair ahead appearing nigh impossible. Whatever your opinion her work may be, there's a lesson situated within this woman's refusal to capitulate, to abandon her work, to lessen the scope and ambition of her vision.
This book should cost you about $17 or less. I would consider that a bargain.
This book should cost you about $17 or less. I would consider that a bargain.