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I don't want to.

>>9808165

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Sea Rose
BY H. D.
Rose, harsh rose,
marred and with stint of petals,
meagre flower, thin,
sparse of leaf,

more precious
than a wet rose
single on a stem—
you are caught in the drift.

Stunted, with small leaf,
you are flung on the sand,
you are lifted
in the crisp sand
that drives in the wind.

Can the spice-rose
drip such acrid fragrance
hardened in a leaf?

>>9808160

I'm a fan of her work but you really need to stop with this forced meme shit. It can only end badly. You know this.

>>9808167
meant to put a frowny face
:(

>>9808171
Well that didn't work as planned..

>>9808172
The more people that read her, the better. I don't care about memes really.

>>9808185

Stop being such a cornball, m8.

>>9808189
No. What's your favorite piece by her?

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>>9808192

>No.

>>9808194
Don't be afraid to engage sincerely. I won't hurt you.

>>9808172
Yeah, I'm feeling the same, especially because OP is only forcing her poetry. Her poetry is good, but her prose is fucking scary. I had to put down one of her sort of autobiographies because she was describing standing in a garden and I felt a bit assaulted. She can do a much more rapidfire stream of consciousness than the rest, so probably Burroughs fans would like her oppressive style more than Joyce and Woolf fans.

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>>9808207

>Don't be afraid to engage sincerely.

Fuck off already you lame.

>>9808209
Prose is oversold on this board. and I've read more of her poetry than her prose, I'm not gonna recommend something I haven't read.

What's your favorite book by her, I planned on getting HERmione next (so far I've read Trilogy and a good chunk of her collected and am reading Helen in Egypt).

Tribute to Freud looks good too.

>>9808223
I prefer her earlier imagist poems. Sea garden is my favorite book of hers.

>>9808175
sorry desu, harry crosby needs me

>>9808223
>Prose is oversold on this board
...how? it makes up the majority of what people will read, and in HD's case, it's not an overselling to say she is a master prose stylist, while her poetry isn't necessarily stronger than Pound's (despite what Pound says) though that still places it in one of the 20th C greats' spots, it doesn't make it outshine her prose. Liking her poetry and ignoring her prose because of your perception of /lit/ makes you like a wanker who loves Notes on Prosody but refuses to read the actual poem. That's the kind of Nabokov fan that only Nabokov is allowed to be and otherwise puts people off.

I think HERmione was the one with the garden. I really didn't expect the inundation her autobiography type novels gave off. It felt a bit like she was trying to kill us both to make us stronger with a verbal onslaught at times. Very scarily good prose.

>>9808269
also, if you like her poetry, I recommend HERmione because a lot of it deals with her trying to find images and her thought process behind the poems.

>>9808269
Your reading a large amount into my statement. I'm not anti-prose (i'm not ignoring her prose), but I disagree with you on her place in poetry. I think she's more in the rank of Eliot and WCW (whereas Pound is not) and I would say you're the backwards HD reader here.

>>9808237
Oread is one of my favorite short work of anyone.
>>9808171
a fan of this one too

>>9808252
I understand

>>9808319
>. I think she's more in the rank of Eliot and WCW (whereas Pound is not) and I would say you're the backwards HD reader here.
Ew, she's definitely better than Eliot and WCW. WCW is better than Eliot too, but your ranking is arsebackwards if you think HD is as good as Eliot and place her lower than Pound. It's more like HD>>Pound>>>>>>>WCW>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Eliot

>>9808346
H.D.>=Eliot >WCW >> Pound

Pound is a great agent, though.

>>9808427
Eliot's a wanker

>>9808434
Yeah, but he's a great poet. Pound was ambitious, but couldn't achieved what he reached for.

>>9808458
but he's not a great poet. he is a wanker in his poetry, and most of the people who love him will also fall for style over substance memes like dfw.

>>9808490
I don't even know what to say to that, especially consider you apparently like Pound (who is the 'wankiest' poet to live)

No. She did little in her life.

>>9808521
ur puns are rude

>>9808510
Pound at least has feeling

I prefer good poetry.

>>9808524
this is just an impasse, Eliot's one of the few that honestly get me emotional

>>9808533
it's referential wankery.

>>9808490
>style over substance
In literature style is substance. Seriously name me a poet or novelist who was a poor stylist but wrote some grand piece of yet unmentioned "substance." If you want to separate these two things, go to phil.

>>9808319
>she's more in the rank of Eliot and WCW

So she's simultaneously really good like Eliot, and a hack like Carlos? That's quite the rank

>>9808537
Unlike the Cantos, I'm sure.

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>>9808171

>>9808539
Dosto?

>>9808539
No, they are separate things, but Eliot squeezes out substance to rely on style alone. That's why he's filled with other people's works because he needs to place allusions to substance in there to hold his style together, and his style without the referent is insubstantial and frankly flat. Pound without knowledge of the referent is often stronger than with knowledge of the referent (see: his "translations")

>>9808557
Confirmed translations reader

Pound is technically great but has no voice of his own.
You don't read a poem and think " that sounds like something pound would write"
For this reason I don't think he gets as much recognition as other poets.
His poetry is all over the map, some great, some good and some not very good at all.