{"product_id":"the-usual-star-and-the-moment-stories-9780813079394","title":"The Usual Star and the Moment: Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eTwo little-known story collections from H.D. that offer\u003cbr\u003enew ways of thinking about the role of the short story genre in the writer's\u003cbr\u003ecareer and the modernist movement\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Imagist poet H.D.\u003cbr\u003eis widely regarded as one of the most innovative writers of free verse in\u003cbr\u003eEnglish. In the last few decades, her poetry and novels have received increasing\u003cbr\u003escholarly attention, but her short prose has rarely been studied. Until now, many\u003cbr\u003eof her short stories have been inaccessible for readers, either long out of\u003cbr\u003eprint or never having been published. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this volume, \u003cbr\u003eLara Vetter introduces two short story cycles by H.D.--\u003ci\u003eThe Usual Star\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003cbr\u003ewhich comprises two stories, \"The Usual Star\" and \"Two Americans\"; and \u003ci\u003eThe\u003cbr\u003eMoment, \u003c\/i\u003e which contains the stories \"Hesperia,\" \"Aegina,\" \"The Moment,\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Jubilee,\" \"The Last Time,\" \"The Death of Martin Presser,\" and \"The Guardians.\"\u003cbr\u003ePresenting these two collections in their entirety alongside a critical\u003cbr\u003eintroduction and explanatory notes that frame the stories in their historic, \u003cbr\u003eliterary, and social context, this volume argues for the serious study of\u003cbr\u003eH.D.'s work in this genre.  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe stories\u003cbr\u003efeatured in these collections were written between the 1920s and 1940s, \u003cbr\u003eoffering an opportunity to study the format as it evolved in H.D.'s thought and\u003cbr\u003epractice. This edition situates the stories, some biographically based, within\u003cbr\u003ethe larger arc of H.D.'s life and career. H.D.'s short stories offer a glimpse\u003cbr\u003einto the art and experiences of a queer woman writer of the modernist era. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVetter, Lara:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Lara Vetter is professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eA Curious Peril: HD's Late Modernist Prose\u003c\/i\u003e and the editor of H.D.'s \u003ci\u003eBy Avon River\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eD. H.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - H.D. (born Hilda Doolittle, 1886-1961) was an American expatriate writer whose work exerted enormous influence on modernist poetry and prose.","brand":"University Press of Florida","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51589863997714,"sku":"9780813079394","price":89.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e36d57b8-c02f-4f5d-8d81-131ee3d41ef3.jpg?v=1756811159","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-usual-star-and-the-moment-stories-9780813079394","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}