New Directions Paperbook
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The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton
$49.95 Add to cartIn 1944, New Directions brought out Thomas Merton’s first book of verse. By the time of his tragic, untimely death in 1968, Father Louis (as he was known at the Trappist monastery where he lived for t… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook
- Author: Merton, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1058
- Publish Date: October 21 2010
- ISBN10: 0811207692
- Language: English
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Henry Miller on Writing
$16.95 Read more“A brilliant selection . . . it is in short a voyage of discovery, an adventure and this the log of that voyage in the life of a probing and powerful writer.” –Robert R. Kirsch, Los Angeles Times
Auth… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook #151
- Author: Miller, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 217
- Publish Date: January 17 1964
- ISBN10: 0811201120
- Language: English
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Selected Poems
$15.95 Add to cartIn 1982 William Bronk won the American Book Award for his book Life Supports: New & Collected Poems. Since then, he has written seven additional books, and Sagetrieb has devoted an entire issue to his… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook #816
- Author: Bronk, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: December 10 2008
- ISBN10: 0811213145
- Language: English
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Collected Poems 1912-1944
$28.95 Add to cartOf special significance are the “Uncollected and Unpublished Poems (1912-1944),” the third section of the book, written mainly in the 1930s, during H. D.’s supposed “fallow” period. As these pages rev… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook #611
- Author: Doolittle, Hilda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: February 17 1986
- ISBN10: 0811209717
- Language: English
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Maldoror: (Les Chants de Maldoror)
$18.95 Read moreThe macabre but beautiful work, Les Chants de Maldoror, has achieved a considerable reputation as one of the earliest and most extraordinary examples of Surrealist writing. It is a long narrative pros
- Series: New Directions Paperbook
- Author: Lautreamont, Conte De
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: January 17 1965
- ISBN10: 0811200825
- Language: English
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The Collected Poems of Williams Carlos Williams: 1939-1962
$26.95 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: 552
- Publish Date: September 17 1991
- ISBN10: 0811211886
- Language: English
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The Books in My Life
$19.95 Add to cartSome writers attempt to conceal the literary influences which have shaped their thinking–but not Henry Miller. In The Books in My Life he shares the thrills of discovery that many kinds of books have… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook
- Author: Miller, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 27 2007
- ISBN10: 0811201082
- Language: English
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A Bernadette Mayer Reader
$16.95 Add to cart“What a clear, insistent health there is here–as if the so-called world were seriously the point, which it is, and we could actually live in it, which we do. Truly this is the best How To book I’ve r… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook #0739
- Author: Mayer, Bernadette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 148
- Publish Date: May 17 1992
- ISBN10: 0811212033
- Language: English
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The Stream and the Sapphire: Selected Poems on Religious Themes
$13.95 Read moreThe poet presents a selection of thirty-four of her own poems culled from previously published volumes, tracing her movement from agnosticism to Christian faith and her oscillation from doubt to affir… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook #844
- Author: Levertov, Denise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: May 17 1997
- ISBN10: 0811213544
- Language: English
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Stand Still Like the Hummingbird
$14.95 Add to cartOne of Henry Miller’s most luminous statements of his personal philosophy of life, Stand Still Like the Hummingbird, provides a symbolic title for this collection of stories and essays. Many of them h… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook
- Author: Miller, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: June 17 1962
- ISBN10: 0811203220
- Language: English
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Death in Midsummer: And Other Stories
$15.95 Add to cartNine of Yukio Mishima’s finest stories were selected by Mishima himself for translation in this book; they represent his extraordinary ability to depict a wide variety of human beings in moments of si… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook
- Author: Mishima, Yukio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 17 1966
- ISBN10: 0811201171
- Language: English
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Where Europe Begins: Stories
$15.95 Add to cartChosen as a 2005 Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, Where Europe Begins has been described by the Russian literary phenomenon Victor Pelevin as “a spectacular journey through a world of colli… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook
- Author: Tawada, Yoko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 17 2007
- ISBN10: 0811217027
- Language: English
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The Sunlight Dialogues
$24.95 Add to cartIn The Sunlight Dialogues, John Gardner’s vision of America in the turbulent 1960s embraces an unconventional cast of conventional citizens in the small rural town of Batavia, New York. Sheriff Fred C
- Series: New Directions Paperbook
- Author: Gardner, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 0811216705
- Language: English
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The Wall: (Intimacy) and Other Stories
$14.95 Add to cart‘The Wall’, the lead story in this collection, introduces three political prisoners on the night prior to their execution. Through the gaze of an impartial doctor–seemingly there for the men’s solace… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook
- Author: Sartre, Jean-Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 17 1969
- ISBN10: 0811201902
- Language: English
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Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness
$12.95 Add to cartKaufman promotes a spontaneous, prophetic verse, mixing street talk and jazz with vision. Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness contains odes to Charles Mingus, Hart Crane, Ray Charles, and Albert Camus a… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook
- Author: Kaufman, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 17 1965
- ISBN10: 0811200760
- Language: English
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The Colossus of Maroussi
$15.95 Add to cartLike the ancient colossus that stood over the harbor of Rhodes, Henry Miller’s The Colossus of Maroussi stands as a seminal classic in travel literature. It has preceded the footsteps of prominent tra… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook
- Author: Miller, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 18 2010
- ISBN10: 0811218570
- Language: English
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Illuminations: Prose Poems
$15.95 Add to cartThe prose poems of the great French Symbolist, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891), have acquired enormous prestige among readers everywhere and have been a revolutionary influence on poetry in the twentieth c… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook, No. 56
- Author: Rimbaud, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: January 17 1957
- ISBN10: 0811201848
- Language: English
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Residence On Earth
$18.95 Add to cartIn celebration of the 100th anniversary of Pablo Neruda’s birth, New Directions is pleased to announce the reissue of a classic work in a timeless translation by Donald D. Walsh and fully bilingual. R… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook #992
- Author: Neruda, Pablo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 366
- Publish Date: July 17 2004
- ISBN10: 0811215814
- Language: English
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The Emigrants
$16.95 Add to cartThe four long narratives in The Emigrants appear at first to be the straightforward biographies of four Germans in exile. Sebald reconstructs the lives of a painter, a doctor, an elementary-school tea… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook #853
- Author: Sebald, W. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 08 2016
- ISBN10: 081122614X
- Language: English
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Immigrants in Our Own Land and Selected Early Poems
$14.95 Add to cartImmigrants in Our Own Land & Selected Early Poems is a new, expanded edition of Jimmy Santiago Baca’s best-selling first book of poetry (originally published by Louisiana State University Press in 197… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook #0701
- Author: Baca, Jimmy Santiago
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 86
- Publish Date: November 17 1990
- ISBN10: 0811211452
- Language: English
