Posts Tagged: Robert McAlmon

Circles: H.D./Bryher
When you’re mapping the relations of H.D. and Bryher, complication is a given. Their relationship lasted from 1918 to H.D.’s death in 1961 but as the diagram indicates, this was a far from exclusive arrangement.

Circles: H.D./Bryher
When you’re mapping the relations of H.D. and Bryher, complication is a given. Their relationship lasted from 1918 to H.D.’s death in 1961 but as the diagram indicates, this was a far from exclusive arrangement.

Strange Flowers guide to Berlin: part 3
The retro-revellers at Bohème Sauvage are responding to a particular idea of Weimar Berlin, a fragile, frantic golden age of sexual license and social mobility, lewd and doomed. The undying allure of the Weimar Berlin evoked by Isherwood’s books ensures that the reality of the city in that era can never be divorced from its fictional echoes.

Strange Flowers guide to Berlin: part 3
The retro-revellers at Bohème Sauvage are responding to a particular idea of Weimar Berlin, a fragile, frantic golden age of sexual license and social mobility, lewd and doomed. The undying allure of the Weimar Berlin evoked by Isherwood’s books ensures that the reality of the city in that era can never be divorced from its fictional echoes.

Borderline madness
Despite their messy romantic entanglement, the trio formed a progressive creative unit which they dubbed The Pool Group. In 1930 they made the film Borderline, which featured singer Paul Robeson and his wife Eslanda as well as H.D. and Bryher.

Borderline madness
Despite their messy romantic entanglement, the trio formed a progressive creative unit which they dubbed The Pool Group. In 1930 they made the film Borderline, which featured singer Paul Robeson and his wife Eslanda as well as H.D. and Bryher.