@richardr I'll have to look for the Hollenberg book - Gillian Hanscombe & Virginia Smyers' work "Writing for their Lives" (1987) did a good job of highlighting the interconnectedness of H.D., Marianne Moore, Djuna Barnes, Amy Lowell, Mina Loy, Sylvia Beach, etc. But their lives definitely could be adapted onto film of some sort (plenty of DRAMA!)

#WritingForTheirLives #GillianHanscombe #VirginiaSmyers #MinaLoy #DjunaBarnes #AmyLowell #SylviaBeach #MarianneMoore #HD #HildaDoolittle

The Mysteries Remain by H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)

The mysteries remain,
I keep the same
cycle of seed-time
and of sun and rain;
Demeter in the grass,
I multiply,
renew and bless
Bacchus in the vine;
I hold the law,
I keep the mysteries true,
the first of these
to name the living, dead;
I am the wine and bread.
I keep the law,
I hold the mysteries true,
I am the vine,
the branches, you
and you.

More about her, and links to her #poetry
#HildaDoolittle #MysteriesRemain

https://supersededotcom.wordpress.com/2017/08/24/hilda-doolittle-h-d-poet-1886-1961-the-mysteries-remain/

Trying to find out more about H.D.'s use of the #tarot lately. The featured image of this blog post, though, is from a chance encounter among the Beinecke's digital materials: Bea Nettles' 1975 "Mountain Dream Tarot." It's an amazing deck. https://lesleywheeler.org/2022/12/18/h-d-tarot-occluded-vistas/ #HildaDoolittle #HD

#hildadoolittle aka #HD ponders Egypt, or was it Troy or both though sometimes she can see the hearth of Sparta or twinned Mycenae. Maybe Bethlehem or Bryn Mawr. (I so wish I could hang out with her with a whiteboard).