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Selected Poems (New Directions Paperbook, Ndp816)
William Bronk, Henry Weinfield

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1995

Groundwork: Before the War/In the Dark (New Directions Paperbook)
Robert Duncan

New Directions, 2006

Robert Duncan's Groundwork , the American poet's unparalleled final masterpiece, is now available in a single volume. I am speaking now of the Dream in which America sleeps, the New World, moaning, floundering, in three hundred years of invasions, our own history out of Europe and enslaved Africa. —Robert Duncan, from Groundwork Robert Duncan has been widely venerated as one of America's most essential poets: Allen Ginsberg described ...

Selected Poems of Thomas Merton (New Directions Paperbooks)

1 review
Thomas Merton

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1967

..the curving grasses and their daughters..
I've loved this book for more than 30 years. It's not that Merton's an extraordinary poet-- he isn't. He makes beautiful poems, not extraordinary ones; but even a rascal can admire the fortifying intelligence that makes everything Merton writes important. It's not even the customary New Directions production-- immaculate and free, sure and devoted, as always. An American treasure this ...

World Beat: International Poetry Now from New Directions (New Directions Paperbook)

New Directions, 2006

A celebration of contemporary poetry from around the world, World Beat: International Poetry Now from New Directions is a treasure trove that will satisfy and fascinate poetry lovers. A mosaic of twenty-eight foreign and American poets, World Beat is an extraordinary compilation, unlike any other anthology, of the poetry being written today. For some seventy years, New Directions Publishing has brought literary America the world, ...

The Club of Angels (New Directions Paperbook)

3 reviews
Luis Fernando Verissimo

New Directions, 2008

"Hunger is the only recurring desire...sight, sound, sex, and power all come to an end."
The first of Brazilian author Verissimo's novels to be translated into English, The Club of Angels is a fascinating, carefully detailed, and darkly humorous study of ten deaths, the deaths of ten gourmands following their favorite meals. The men have been friends for more than twenty years, meeting once a month for sumptuous feasts together. They represent all levels of society and have ...

Science & Steepleflower (New Directions Paperbook)

2 reviews
Forrest Gander

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1998

"The audacious originality of the ordinary..."
I've thought and thought (in a sort of diffuse, even off-handed way) about what it means to have epiphany and/or transformation occur in a poem. This morning, reading Forrest Gander's "Science & Steepleflower," I realized that I was "reading" along a rocky, bouldered watercourse. It was like experiencing manifestations of "other" inside the confining condition of being "other," or ...

Facing the Bridge (New Directions Paperbook)

1 review
Yoko Tawada

New Directions, 2007

"Fiction should feel like a borrowed coat softened by many wearings."
Though the characters of these three mesmerizing novellas are all looking for "bridges," they face personal voids instead, gaps between their perceptions of past and present, and dislocations in time and place. Each of the characters has traveled to a new place from the "homeland" where s/he was born, and each now lives in a new culture into which s/he does not quite fit. As each deals with the ...

Prisoner of Grace (New Directions Paperbook)

3 reviews
Joyce Cary

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1985

Compelling account of a triangular relationship
Told through the voice of the main character, Nina Woodville recounts her life spent in love with her cousin Jim while being married to Chester Nimmo. When Nina finds herself pregnant by Jim, who appears unwilling to marry her, her aunt arranges a marriage with the young politician Nimmo. But Nina continues to see Jim, in fact has another child by him (Chester is never told the truth). Later, ...

Immigrants in Our Own Land and Selected Early Poems (New Directions Paperbook)
Jimmy Santiago Baca

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1990

Way of Chuang Tzu (New Directions Paperbook)

18 reviews
Thomas Merton

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1969

Like a fine wine ...
Like a fine wine, this collection is best consumed slowly. As it is clearly stated in the foreward, this is not a faithful reproduction of Chuang Tzu but a collection of personal and spiritual interpretations of his work. Readers that expected otherwise might consider reading the description of the book before purchasing it. It would seem embarassing to write a negative review of a product ...

Tribute to Freud (New Directions Paperbook)
Hilda Doolittle, H

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1984

Final Exam (New Directions Paperbook)

3 reviews
Julio Cortazar

New Directions, 2008

Foggy notions
Final exam is a hazy book . What the eyes of Andres Favas shows us is not only a foggy Buenos Aires but a journey into the labyrinths of the late 50's intelectuality. Where does it take him? nowhere of course... inertia is the result of extenuating thinking , so Andre and his friends talk , read , define and redifine life but go nowhere while a surreal city burns. Cortazar always enjoyed ...

Judgment at Nuremberg: A Play (New Directions Paperbook, 951)
Abby Mann

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2002

The Nuremberg trials brought to public attention the worst of the Nazi atrocities. Judgment at Nuremberg brings those trials to life. Abby Mann's riveting drama Judgment at Nuremberg not only brought some of the worst Nazi atrocities to public attention, but has become, along with Elie Wiesel's Night and Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl , one of the twentieth century's most important records of the Holocaust. Originally written as a ...

The Traveling Companion & Other Plays (New Directions Paperbook)
Tennessee Williams

New Directions, 2008

12 previously uncollected experimental shorter plays: The Chalky White Substance • The Day on Which a Man Dies (An Occidental Noh Play) • A Cavalier for Milady • The Pronoun "I" • The Remarkable Rooming House of Mme. LeMonde • Kirche, Küche, Kinder (An Outrage for the Stage) • Green Eyes • The Parade • The One Exception • Sunburst • Will Mr. Merriwether Return from Memphis? • The Traveling ...

Annotations (New Directions Paperbook, 809)

4 reviews
John Keene

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1995

wow
Have you ever been reading a book and wanted to know what was going on somewhere else in the story? Or earlier? Or later? Or in the author's head? *Annotations* gives you the sense that you are looking out over the story and deep within the characters at the same time. Such a patient, delicate, tight weave. Tight, so there's a firmness to this writing, too. On the one hand, we get to see what's ...

The Member of the Wedding: The Play (New Directions Paperbook)
Carson McCullers

New Directions, 2006

Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award: At the suggestion of her friend Tennessee Williams, Southern writer Carson McCullers adapted her novella The Member of the Wedding into a touching and poignant play that was an enormous success when it opened on Broadway in 1950, and has long since become a classic of the American theater. With compassion, veracity and wit, in The Member of the Wedding Carson McCullers depicts the ...

Firefly Under The Tongue: Selected Poems (New Directions Paperbook)
Coral Bracho

New Directions, 2008

A brilliantly translated bilingual edition of poems by one of Mexico's foremost woman poets. Born in 1951 in Mexico City, Coral Bracho has published half a dozen books of poems including the groundbreaking El ser que va a morir (1982) which changed the course of Mexican poetry. Her exquisite long-lined poems evoke the sensual realm where logic is disbanded, wonder evoked. In the words of her translator Forrest Gander, "Her diction spills out ...

Except the Lord (New Directions Paperbook)

1 review
Joyce Cary

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1985

Defining one man's political being
This novel was a sequel to PRISONER OF GRACE and is the second volume in a trilogy. The earlier book concerned Nina Woodville and her relationship with two men, Chester Nimmo and Jim Latter. Cary was dismayed somewhat that many critics saw Nimmo as "an exceptional blackguard," and wrote EXCEPT THE LORD as a means of detailing his early life to explain how he became who he was. Nimmo relates his ...

Foreign Legion: Stories and Chronicles (New Directions Paperbook, Ndp732)

4 reviews
Clarice Lispector

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1992

Plenty of food for throught in style and content.
Lispector applies her "stream of consciousness" style in an unusual two part writing. The two parts, stories and chronicles, offer observations on life within the unstable framework of her society. The stories subjects are worked over by the raw cats tongue of power. From a simple invitation to lunch to a series of dreamlike cockroach executions we are drawn in and held captive and helpless. ...

Where Europe Begins (New Directions Paperbook)

4 reviews
Yoko Tawada

New Directions, 2007

FANTASTIC!!!
Don't listen to the Jerseyite who wrote the two-star review. Pick up this book and you'll want to carry it around forever. Very unusual, Tawada is at the forefront of experimenting with the short story form. Like the paintings of Leonora Carrington, these stories offer us a fresh way of thinking about the world. I won't ruin with plot details, but the title story that takes place on a train is ...

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