End to Torment by Hilda Doolittle

Author:Hilda Doolittle [Pearson, Norman Holmes; King, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-8112-2357-7
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 2013-08-30T16:00:00+00:00

May 10

This is an earlier Canto (IV), it is true, but this theme runs through the Pisan series and the later Rock-Drill, to the end, so far, to 1955. This Canto IV is listed alone as from the Ovid Press, London, 1919. That is the year that Ezra came to St. Faith’s Ealing, London, and stormed into my room. A window looked out on a garden with rows of crocuses and the first flowering trees. There was a Child, there is a Child, implicit somewhere. Its image manifested at the Stadelhofen station, Zürich, that summer day, before I went to America for my 70th birthday. Perhaps Ezra “manifested” too, perhaps he never came to my room and jeered at me. There was no tenderness. Perhaps there was passion and regret “that this is not my Child.”

I did not follow the course of the Cantos, listed in the Eva Hesse Dichtung und Prosa, 1925, 1927, 1930, 1934. I did see Ezra in Paris, once, twice (perhaps three times) in those intermediate years. I did see him and for the last time in London, after Mrs. Shakespear’s death—was it about the time of The Fifth Decad of Cantos, 1937?39 Now, Cantos LII—LXXI, 1940 and we are far apart.

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