Reviews
A superb edition of H.D.’s little-known collection of 14 short stories, Within the Walls, and set of three long poems, What do I Love?. . . .Gives insights into H.D.’s personal life, the difficulties and anxieties of a city at war and under attack, and the broader international stage that informed both the times and H.D.’s cultural and literary production. . . .Highly recommended.
--Choice
Recovers two largely forgotten texts that implicitly provide insight into how the poet refashioned her visionary syncretism, particularly as a blending of dream and waking...during the London Blitz and the later events of the Second World War....and can help us valuably recast how H.D. regarded her wartime projects as a social derivation and exertion of her transformative Alchemical Will, in a time of crisis.
--Journal of Modern Literature
This book allows us to see H.D. from within the walls of her study as well as from within the walls of the precarious body, and the figurative walls trapping the residents of London. . . . Debo reveals a poet who cannot help but become a "war poet" during the crisis, a woman who puts her body and mind at risk to survive and to create against all odds.
--Resources for American Literary Study