Not just, or even primarily, as a poet, but as a thinker as well. I find much about his world view, to the extent that I understand it, bizarre; but I feel I have something to learn from it. I suspect most of you won't be familiar with him, but I think that some of his aesthetic musings would fit in well with ILX concerns, in unexpected ways.
It's difficult for me not to be vague about this, since I haven't actually read him much for a while now, but I am still anxiously awaiting the publication of his H.D. Book, which contains much, if not most, of his more important theoretical writings.
As for the poetry, I don't like most modern/contemporary poetry anymore, and most of his is no exception, though I do find that particularly lines from his poems have stuck with me over the years and grown more meaningful. "Hell is the realm of God's self-loathing," or something like that.
― Rockist Scientist, Friday, 4 October 2002 14:07 (twenty-three years ago)
dont know his stuff, but it is now added to my list of 'books/authors to get'.
so, neither classic nor dud yet.
― donna (donna), Friday, 4 October 2002 21:34 (twenty-three years ago)
two months pass...
Here's a link to a pdf file of an earlier edition of the HD Book, something that is supposed to be published in an updated version, eventually. I didn't even know this file existed online, until now.
Robert Duncan's H.D. Book, from an 1984 edition
― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 11 December 2002 19:56 (twenty-two years ago)
seven years pass...
When I was in high school, I was buying old issues of literary journals like Caterpillar and Io because of the H.D. Book content they contained.
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 21 October 2010 01:49 (fourteen years ago)
two months pass...