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                            Phoenix

The phoenix renews her youth
only when she is burnt, burnt alive, burnt down
to hot and flocculent ash.
Then the small stirring of a new small bub in the nest
with strands of down like floating ash
shows that she is renewing her youth like the eagle,
immortal bird.

D. H. Lawrence

 

 

The photograph above shows the D. H. Lawrence Memorial at the Kiowa Ranch near Taos, New Mexico. He first saw the ranch in 1922 and he and Frieda lived there in 1924 and 1925.  Frieda lived there for a number of years after his death.  It was the only property the Lawrences ever owned. Today it is owned by the University of New Mexico. In the essay "New Mexico" Lawrence wrote:

I think New Mexico was the greatest experience from the outside world that I have ever had. It certainly changed me for ever. . . . In the magnificent fierce morning of New Mexico one sprang awake, a new part of the soul woke up suddenly, and the old world gave way to a new . . . .

The DHLSNA is interested in D. H. Lawrence and all his works--poetry, fiction, drama, essays, travel writing, literary criticism, painting, and letters; in scholarship on Lawrence; and in creative works inspired by Lawrence.

 Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture
 Feb. 18-20 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS

D. H. Lawrence and Questions of Race and Empire

 
This panel aims to engage the ways in which D. H. Lawrence and his texts relate to issues of colonialism, empire and, perhaps more largely, those of race and alterity. Topics for the panel might include—but would certainly not be limited to—the author's reaction to and depiction of Imperial Britain or his rendering of locations, persons, or cultural elements that are particularly foreign to his own cultural identity.
 
Please contact:
Robert Volpicelli

 

MLA CONFERENCE

Philadelphia 2009

Dec. 27 - 30

D. H. Lawrence Sessions

1. D. H. Lawrence's Short Stories

2. D. H. Lawrence's Circle        


Kiowa Ranch Narrative
National Register of Historic Places
Successful Nomination 2004
(starting on page 4)

History of the Society

Officers, Executive Committee, and Honorary Members

Past Presidents and Harry T. Moore Awards

Études lawrenciennes

D. H. Lawrence Review

DHLSNA Newsletter

D H Lawrence Resources at The University of Nottingham

Women and Lawrence

Lawrence Around the World

 

If you would like to join the DHLSNA contact

Theresa Mae Thompson
Valdosta State University
1500 N. Patterson St.
Valdosta, GA 31698
tthompson@valdosta.edu