Author: Bob KaufmanPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811200769
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness
Author: Bob KaufmanPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811200769
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Breathing the Water
Author: Denise LevertovPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811210270
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
"Levertov's master--more than mastery, because she is one of the originators--of contemporary poetic form, informed with a fierce, generous intelligence, can be frightening." --Ursula Le Guin, Washington Post
Selected Poems
Author: Kenneth PatchenPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811201469
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Poems of humor, protest, love and wonder, by one of America's most original voices.
The Snake Tree
Author: Uwe TimmPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811211215
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Wagner, a German engineer, takes in hand the job of rescuing a floundering construction project in the South American rain forest. But before he reaches the site, his car runs over an emerald green snake--marking him, according to local beliefs, for death.
The Two-Character Play
Author: Tennessee WilliamsPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811225720
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
A classic play by Tennessee Williams in a definitive, author-approved edition. Reality and fantasy are interwoven with terrifying power as two actors on tour—brother and sister—find themselves deserted by the trope in a decrepit "state theatre in an unknown state." Faced (perhaps) by an audience expecting a performance, they enact "The Two-Character Play"—an illusions within an illusion, and "out cry" from isolation, panic and fear. "I think it is my most beautiful play since Streetcar," Tennessee Williams said, "and I've never stopped working on it....It is a cri de coeur, but then all creative work,all life, in a sense is a cri de coeur." In the course of its evolution, several earlier versions of The Two-Character Play have been produced. The first of them was presented in 1967 in London and Chicago and brought out in 1969 by New Directions in a signed limited edition. The next, staged in 1973 in New York under the title Out Cry, was published by New Directions in 1973 The third version (New York, 1975), again titled The Two-Character Play, is the one Tennessee Williams wished to include in New Directions' The Theatre of Tennessee Williams series. It is this version which is presented in this ND paperback.
The Secret Meaning of Things
Author: Lawrence FerlinghettiPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811200455
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
The Secret Meaning of Things is Lawrence Ferlinghetti's fourth book of poems.
We'll to the Woods No More
Author: Edouard DujardinPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811211130
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
A delightful period piece of Paris in the late 1880's, We'll to the Woods No More (Les lauriers sont coupés) retains its importance as the first use of the monologue intérieur and the inspiration for the stream-of-consciousness technique perfected by James Joyce. Dujardin's charming tale, told with insight and irony, recounts what goes on in the mind of a young man-about-town in love with a Parisian actress. Mallarmé described the poetry of the telling as "the instant seized by the throat." Originally published in France in 1887, the first English translation (by Joyce scholar Stuart Gilbert) was published by New Directions in 1938. In 1957 Leon Edel's perceptive historical essay reintroduced the book as "the rare and beautiful case of a minor work which launched a major movement."
Selected Poems
Author: Kenneth RexrothPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811224015
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
The late Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982) is surely one of the most readable of this century's great American poets. He is also one of the most sophisticated. Like William Carlos Williams, he honed his writing to a controlled and direct language. His intellectual complexity matches Wallace Stevens, his polymath erudition Ezra Pound. He is first among our nature poets. His love poems and erotic lyrics are unsurpassed. Rexroth's Selected Poems brings together in a single volume a representative sampling of sixty years' work. Here are substantial passages from his longer poems: The Homestead Called Damascus(1920-1925), begun while the poet was in his teens; the cubist Prolegomenon to a Theodicy (1925-1927); the philosophical masterpiece The Phoenix and the Tortoise (1940-1944) and The Dragon and the Unicorn (1944-1950); and the meditative The Heart's Garden, The Garden's Heart (1967). The shorter poems were originally gathered in In What Hour (1940), The Art of Wordly Wisdom (1949),The Signature of All Things (1950), In Defense of the Earth (1956), Natural Numbers(1964), New Poems (1974), and The Morning Star (1979).
Love and the Turning Year
Author: Kenneth RexrothPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811201797
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
An assemblage of delicate Chinese verse which delicately explore the worlds of love, nature, and meditation.
The Theatre of Tennessee Williams
Author: Tennessee WilliamsPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811211369
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Theatre of Tennessee Williams Vol. 2. The Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Summer and Smoke, The Rose Tattoo, and Camino Real.