Dan Beachy-Quick

“I think H.D.’s Sea Garden is as fine a first book of poems as the last century produced. . . . I hardly know what to say about it. There is a quality of thought and feeling, of actual vision in the midst of allegorizing itself, a sense that the hour is equally eternity, and eternity equally an hour, that just shatters me. I find in it, poem after poem, an example of what it is to be thrown into the world and have nothing else to teach you how to live in that condition but the world itself.”