ABSTRACT
Hotels occupy an intriguing and neglected space in H.D.’s writing. Tracing a palimpsestic patterning of hotel spaces and visionary experiences within H.D.’s work, I draw connections between two autobiographical visions that occurred during hotel stays—recorded in Notes on Thought and Vision (1982) and Tribute to Freud (1956)—and a third hotel vision depicted in the semi-autobiographical short story “Mira-Mare” (1934), to track how H.D.’s liminal hotel spaces operate. This essay argues that the poetic site of the hotel acts as a conduit for H.D.’s visions. They open access to alternate temporal planes and forms of knowledge, occupying a crucial space in her literary and spiritual registers.
