Research Catalog

Title

Kora and Ka with Mira-Mare / H.D. ; introduction by Robert Spoo.

Author

H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), 1886-1961

Publication

• New York : New Directions, [1996]
• © 1996

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Details

Additional Authors

• Spoo, Robert E.
• Laughlin, James, 1914-1997
• New Directions Publishing, publisher
• James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints

Description

xv, 9-101 pages; 18 cm.

Summary

Written by H.D. in 1930 and only published in a 100-copy edition for friends in 1934, Kora and Ka marked a new level of intensity in the poet's experiments with prose fiction. The two long stories contained in this volume, "Kora and Ka" and "Mira-Mare," are at once profoundly autobiographical yet, through H.D.'s unusual brand of modernist story-telling, pushed beyond personality. The men and women who haunt these tales are wraiths in spiritual exile, wanderers in a Europe still recovering from the devastations of World War I. Her descriptions of the beaches at Monte Carlo are triumphs of vivid detail - bright watercolors set against brooding psychological portraits. In its exploration of the "broken dualities" of self and civilization, Kora and Ka looks forward to H.D.'s masterpieces, Tribute to Freud and Trilogy.

Series Statement

New Directions Bibelot ; ND

Subject

• Manners and customs > Fiction
• Manners and customs

Genre/Form

• Psychological fiction.
• Fiction.
• Dust jackets (Binding) – New York (State) – New York – 1996.

Note

• "First printed privately in 1934 for the author's friends by Imprimerie Darantiere at Dijon, France"--Title page verso.
• "A New Directions Bibelot" -- title page.
• "Celebrating 60 years of publishing for James Laughlin by New Directions Publishing Corporation" -- title page verso.

Indexed In (note)

• Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin

Audience (note)

• 970L

Binding (note)

• bound in publishers' paperback binding..

Contents

Kora and Ka -- Mira-Mare.

Call Number

Berg Coll 22-980

ISBN

• 081121317X
• 9780811213172

LCCN

96001426

OCLC

34151494

Author

H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), 1886-1961, author.

Title

Kora and Ka with Mira-Mare / H.D. ; introduction by Robert Spoo.

Publisher

New York : New Directions, [1996]

Copyright Date

© 1996

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

New Directions Bibelot ; ND

Indexed In:

Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin, page 145

Audience

970L Lexile

Binding

Copy in Berg Coll 22-980 bound in publishers' paperback binding.. NN

Local Note

Copy in Berg Coll 22-980 acquired from Leila and Daniel Javitch, 2021.

Added Author

H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), 1886-1961. Mira-Mare.

Spoo, Robert E., writer of introduction.

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, publisher.

New Directions Publishing, publisher.

Javitch, Leila Laughlin, donor.

Javitch, Daniel, donor.

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, former owner.

James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.

Research Call Number

Berg Coll 22-980