"A woman, an Imagist living and composing in 1920s Europe, H.D. stands as a model for the female expatriate American artist. Additionally, in Asphodel, H.D. provides a revealing roman a clef for her time... The novel presents an unabashed portrait of a woman's life during the tumultuous World War I era." Robert Johnson, The Denver Post "Asphodel is a brilliant experimentalist text important to the history and theory of both modernism and women's writing."--Susan Stanford Friedman, author of Penelope's Web: H.D's Fictions and the Engendering of Modernism "This novel ... is a considerable lyric meditation on femaleness, sexual and maternal choices, and the meanings of war, history, and violence. Its publication adds a striking text to the modernist canon."--Rachel Blau DuPlessis, author of H.D.: The Career of that Struggle