Hilda Doolittle Reads From "Helen in Egypt"

Suppose it were true, as an early Greek poet had conjectured, that Helen never was of Troy; that Helen had been spirited away to Egypt and that there, later, that Achilles was never killed at Troy, and that later, he had met her, in Egypt, on a beach. H.D. a very old woman, who not only should be the model for Lady Chatterley, but maybe if God is a woman, God should sound something like this.....

Stan Brakhage

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Poetry
• Feminism
• Modernism
• Greek
• Helen
• Troy
• Egypt

[tedzodd]

My favorite poet. So glad you posted her. I lost my tape of this years ago.

[hergart]

mesmerizing beauty. My heart is racing. Thank you.