H.D., Duncan, Corbin

I am delighted to be able to make available an important unpublished paper by Michael Boughn that will be of considerable interest to those wanting to understand the significance of Corbin for modern poetry. Boughn is co-editor (with Victor Coleman) of Robert Duncan's The H.D. Book. The Introduction to that volume has seemed to me a must-read for students of Corbin and literature. Boughn has also edited and written an Afterword to the collection Narthex and Other Stories by HD where he argues that H.D.'s fiction can be seen to work as "recitals" in the sense Corbin proposes in Avicenna - that there is an actual spiritual passage, an exegesis, in the prose. In the paper we make available here, "H.D., Robert Duncan and the question of the occult," Boughn helps clarify all at once several issues central to these subjects which I hope many readers will find as useful as I do. I am grateful to him for letting me make this document public.
H.D., Robert Duncan, And the Question of the Occult