New Directions Paperbook
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Three Tragedies: Blood Wedding, Yerma, Bernarda Alba
$17.95 Read moreBlood Wedding. Concerned with love that cannot become marriage among the primitive hill people of Castile, this is a play of the workings of tremendous passions and tribal ritual toward an inescapable… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook #52
- Author: Garcia Lorca, Federico
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: January 17 1955
- ISBN10: 0811200922
- Language: English
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Selected Cronicas
$16.95 Add to cart“In 1967, Brazil’s leading newspaper asked the avant-garde writer Lispector to write a weekly column on any topic she wished. For almost seven years, Lispector showed Brazilian readers just how vast a… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook #834
- Author: Lispector, Clarice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: November 17 1996
- ISBN10: 811213404
- Language: English
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Annotations
$12.95 Read moreAn experimental first novel of poem-like compression, Annotations has a great deal to say about growing up Black in St. Louis. Reminiscent of Jean Toomer’s Cane, the book is in part a meditation on Af… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook #0809
- Author: Keene, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 17 1995
- ISBN10: 0811213048
- Language: English
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The Rose of Time: New & Selected Poems
$19.95 Read morein the mirror there is always this moment
this moment leads to the door of rebirth
the door opens to the sea
the rose of time
–Bei DaoThe Rose of Time: New & Selected Poems presents a glowing selecti… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook #1160
- Author: Dao, Bei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0811218481
- Language: English
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Myths and Texts
$12.95 Read moreThe three sequences in the book–“Logging,” “Hunting,” “Burning”–show the remarkable cohesiveness in Snyder’s writings over the years, for we find the poet absorbed, then as now, with Buddhist and Am… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook
- Author: Snyder, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 54
- Publish Date: April 01 1978
- ISBN10: 0811206866
- Language: English
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ABC of Reading
$15.95 Read moreThis important work, first published in 1934, is a concise statement of Pound’s aesthetic theory. It is a primer for the reader who wants to maintain an active, critical mind and become increasingly s… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook #1186
- Author: Pound, Ezra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 28 2010
- ISBN10: 0811218937
- Language: English
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Trilogy
$15.95 Add to cartAs civilian war poetry (written under the shattering impact of World War II). Trilogy‘s three long poems rank with T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets” and Ezra Pound’s “Pisan Cantos.” The first book of the T… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook
- Author: Doolittle, Hilda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: September 17 1998
- ISBN10: 0811213994
- Language: English
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The Lime Twig
$16.95 Read moreBut it would be unfair to the reader to reveal what happens when a gang of professional crooks gets wind of the scheme and moves to muscle in on this bettors’ dream of a long-odds situation. Worked ou… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook
- Author: Hawkes, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 17 1961
- ISBN10: 0811200655
- Language: English
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The Skating Rink
$14.95 Read moreWith a murder at its heart, Roberto Bolano’s The Skating Rink is, among other things, a crime novel. Murder seems to have exerted a fascination for the endlessly talented Bolano, who in his last inter… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook #1193
- Author: Bolaño, Roberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 28 2011
- ISBN10: 0811218686
- Language: English
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The Pisan Cantos
$18.95 Read moreEzra Pound’s The Pisan Cantos was written in 1945, while the poet was being held in an American military detention center near Pisa, Italy, as a result of his pro-Fascist wartime broadcasts to America… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook #977
- Author: Pound, Ezra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 17 2003
- ISBN10: 081121558X
- Language: English
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New Selected Poems and Translations
$19.95 Read moreThis newly revised and greatly expanded edition of Ezra Pound’s Selected Poems is intended to articulate Pound for the twenty-first century. Gone are many of the “stale creampuffs” (as Pound called th… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook #1185
- Author: Pound, Ezra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 29 2010
- ISBN10: 0811217337
- Language: English
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Selected Poems of Ezra Pound
$15.95 Read moreThe verse and criticism which he produced during the early years of the twentieth century very largely determined the directions of creative writing in our time; virtually every major poet in England … [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook #66
- Author: Pound, Ezra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: January 17 1957
- ISBN10: 0811201627
- Language: English
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The Assistant
$18.95 Read moreRobert Walser is an overwhelmingly original author with many ardent fans: J.M. Coetzee (“dazzling”), Guy Davenport (“a very special kind of whimsical-serious-deep writer”), and Hermann Hesse (“If he h… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook #1071
- Author: Walser, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0811215903
- Language: English
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The Selected Poems of Po Chu-I
$17.95 Read moreThe quintessential Chinese poet, translated by David Hinton, recipient of the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award.
- Series: New Directions Paperbook
- Author: Chu-I, Po
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: June 17 1999
- ISBN10: 0811214125
- Language: English
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Poems from the Book of Hours
$12.95 Read moreAlthough The Book of Hours is the work of Rilke’s youth, it contains the germ of his mature convictions. Written as spontaneously received prayers, these poems celebrate a God who is not the Creator o… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook #408
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: January 23 2018
- ISBN10: 0811227588
- Language: English
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The Flowers of Evil
$21.95 Add to cartBanned and slighted in his lifetime, the book that contains all of Baudelaire’s verses has opened up vistas to the imagination and quickened sensibilities of poets everywhere. Yet it is questionable w… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook #0688
- Author: Baudelaire, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 17 1989
- ISBN10: 0811211177
- Language: English
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The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1909-1939
$27.95 Add to cartSo that readers could more fully understand the extent of Williams’ radical simplicity, all of his published poetry, excluding Paterson, was reissued in two definite volumes, of which this is the firs… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook #730-
- Author: Williams, William Carlos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 604
- Publish Date: September 17 1991
- ISBN10: 0811211878
- Language: English
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Zen and the Birds of Appetite
$14.95 Add to cart“Zen enriches no one,” Thomas Merton provocatively writes in his opening statement to Zen and the Birds of Appetite–one of the last books to be published before his death in 1968. “There is no body t… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook
- Author: Merton, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 17 1968
- ISBN10: 081120104X
- Language: English
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Ghosts
$14.95 Read more“On a building site of a new, luxury apartment building, visitors looked up at the strange, irregular form of the water tank that crowned the edifice, and the big parabolic dish that would supply tele… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook
- Author: Aira, César
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0811217426
- Language: English
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Paris Spleen: 1869
$14.95 Add to cartSet in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of the terrain Baudelaire had covered in his verse masterpiece, The Flowers of Evil: the city and its squ… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook #294
- Author: Baudelaire, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 118
- Publish Date: January 17 1970
- ISBN10: 0811200078
- Language: English
