Kora & Ka: Novella with Mira-Mare (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780811213172)

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.

Author: Hilda Doolittle
ISBN-10: 081121317X
ISBN-13: 9780811213172
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 04/17/1996
Pages: 118
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.21lbs
Size: 6.95h x 4.76w x 0.33d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/18/1996 pg. 63
Library Journal 05/01/1996 pg. 138