New Directions Books
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The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen
$14.95 Add to cartWilfred Owen was twenty-two when he enlisted in the Artists’ Rifle Corps during World War I. By the time Owen was killed at the age of 25 at the Battle of Sambre, he had written what are considered th… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Books
- Author: Owen, Wilfred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 17 1965
- ISBN10: 0811201325
- Language: English
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Helen in Egypt: Poetry
$22.95 Read moreA fifty-line fragment by the poet Stesichorus of Sicily (c. 640-555 B.C.), what survives of his Pallinode, tells us almost all we know of this other Helen, and from it H. D. wove her book-length poem…. [more below]
- Series: New Directions Books
- Author: Doolittle, Hilda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 17 1974
- ISBN10: 0811205444
- Language: English
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Your Face Tomorrow: Fever and Spear
$24.95 Read morePart spy novel, part romance, part Henry James, Your Face Tomorrow is a wholly remarkable display of the immense gifts of Javier Marias. With Fever and Spear, Volume One of his unfolding novel Your Fa… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Books
- Author: Marías, Javier
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 01 2007
- ISBN10: 811217272
- Language: English
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Siddhartha/The Dhammapada/The Buddha
$14.95 Add to cartWritten in a prose of almost biblical simplicity and beauty, Siddhartha is the story of a soul’s long quest for the answer to the enigma of man’s role on earth. As a youth, the young Indian Siddhartha… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Books
- Author: Hesse, Hermann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: September 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0811218503
- Language: English
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Exercises in Style
$16.95 Add to cartOn a crowded bus at midday, Raymond Queneau observes one man accusing another of jostling him deliberately. When a seat is vacated, the first man appropriates it. Later, in another part of town, Quene
- Series: New Directions Books
- Author: Queneau, Raymond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: January 31 2013
- ISBN10: 0811220354
- Language: English
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Turtle Island
$14.95 Add to cartThese Pulitzer Prize-winning poems and essays by the author of No Nature range from the lucid, lyrical, and mystical to the political. All, however, share a common vision: a rediscovery of North Ameri… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Books
- Author: Snyder, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 17 1974
- ISBN10: 0811205460
- Language: English
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The Cantos
$29.95 Add to cartDelmore Schwartz said about The Cantos: “They are one of the touchstones of modern poetry.” William Carlos WIlliams said “[Pound] discloses history by its odor, by the feel of it–in the words; fuses … [more below]
- Series: New Directions Books
- Author: Pound, Ezra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: June 17 1996
- ISBN10: 0811213269
- Language: English
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A Breath of Life: Pulsations
$16.95 Read moreA mystical dialogue between a male author (a thinly disguised Clarice Lispector) and his/her creation, a woman named Angela, this posthumous work has never before been translated. Lispector did not ev
- Series: New Directions Books
- Author: Lispector, Clarice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: June 13 2012
- ISBN10: 0811219623
- Language: English
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The Passion According to G.H.
$15.95 Add to cartThe Passion According to G.H., Clarice Lispector’s mystical novel of 1964, concerns a well-to-do Rio sculptress, G.H., who enters her maid’s room, sees a cockroach crawling out of the wardrobe, and, p… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Books
- Author: Lispector, Clarice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: June 13 2012
- ISBN10: 0811219682
- Language: English
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Água Viva
$14.95 Add to cartA meditation on the nature of life and time, ?gua Viva (1973) shows Lispector discovering a new means of writing about herself, more deeply transforming her individual experience into a universal poet… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Books
- Author: Lispector, Clarice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: June 13 2012
- ISBN10: 0811219909
- Language: English
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The Glass Menagerie
$12.95 Add to cartMenagerie was Williams’s first popular success and launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career of our pre-eminent lyric playwright. Since its premiere in Chicago in 1944, with the legend
- Series: New Directions Books
- Author: Williams, Tennessee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: June 17, 1999
- ISBN10: 0811214044
- Language: English
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The Cantos of Ezra Pound
$48.00 Add to cart- Series: New Directions Books
- Author: Pound, Ezra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 822
- Publish Date: June 19, 2013
- ISBN10: 0811203506
- Language: English
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The Captain’s Verses: Love Poems
$15.95 Add to cartPablo Neruda, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, finished writing The Captain’s Verses in 1952 while in exile on the island of Capri–the paradisal setting for the blockbuster film Il Postino (… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Books
- Author: Neruda, Pablo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 25 2009
- ISBN10: 081121821X
- Language: English
