Author: Eugénio de Andrade
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811215237
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Award-winning poetry in a bilingual edition, by Portugal's best-known living poet.
Curve Away from Stillness
Author: John Allman
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811210812
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Poems convey the art and science of the world of physics, chemistry, biology, planets and principles.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811210812
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Poems convey the art and science of the world of physics, chemistry, biology, planets and principles.
Forbidden Words
Author: Eugénio de Andrade
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811215237
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Award-winning poetry in a bilingual edition, by Portugal's best-known living poet.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811215237
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Award-winning poetry in a bilingual edition, by Portugal's best-known living poet.
Stand Still Like the Hummingbird
Author: Henry Miller
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811203227
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
One 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 have appeared only in foreign magazines while others were printed in small limited editions which have gone out of print. Miller's genius for comedy is at its best in "Money and How It Gets That Way"--a tongue-in-cheek parody of "economics" provoked by a postcard from Ezra Pound which asked if he "ever thought about money." His deep concern for the role of the artist in society appears in "An Open Letter to All and Sundry," and in "The Angel is My Watermark" he writes of his own passionate love affair with painting. "The Immorality of Morality" is an eloquent discussion of censorship. Some of the stories, such as "First Love," are autobiographical, and there are portraits of friends, such as "Patchen: Man of Anger and Light," and essays on other writers such as Walt Whitman, Thoreau, Sherwood Anderson and Ionesco. Taken together, these highly readable pieces reflect the incredible vitality and variety of interests of the writer who extended the frontiers of modern literature with Tropic of Cancer and other great books.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811203227
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
One 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 have appeared only in foreign magazines while others were printed in small limited editions which have gone out of print. Miller's genius for comedy is at its best in "Money and How It Gets That Way"--a tongue-in-cheek parody of "economics" provoked by a postcard from Ezra Pound which asked if he "ever thought about money." His deep concern for the role of the artist in society appears in "An Open Letter to All and Sundry," and in "The Angel is My Watermark" he writes of his own passionate love affair with painting. "The Immorality of Morality" is an eloquent discussion of censorship. Some of the stories, such as "First Love," are autobiographical, and there are portraits of friends, such as "Patchen: Man of Anger and Light," and essays on other writers such as Walt Whitman, Thoreau, Sherwood Anderson and Ionesco. Taken together, these highly readable pieces reflect the incredible vitality and variety of interests of the writer who extended the frontiers of modern literature with Tropic of Cancer and other great books.
The Crack-Up
Author: Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811218207
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
"A New Directions book." Reissued as NDP1135 in 2009.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811218207
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
"A New Directions book." Reissued as NDP1135 in 2009.
Routines
Author: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811214780
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Routines, first published by New Directions in 1964 and going through four printings, is now reissued with the addition of three more of Ferlinghetti's very short experimental plays
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811214780
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Routines, first published by New Directions in 1964 and going through four printings, is now reissued with the addition of three more of Ferlinghetti's very short experimental plays
In the American Grain
Author: William Carlos Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811202305
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
William Carlos Williams's examination of American history in a series of reflective essays.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811202305
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
William Carlos Williams's examination of American history in a series of reflective essays.
Turtle Island
Author: Gary Snyder
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811205467
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Poems.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811205467
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Poems.
Midnight's Gate
Author: Beidao
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811215848
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Twenty essays about Bei Dao's life in exile since Tiananmen Square."Knowledge of death is the only key that can open midnight's gate."Bei Dao Bei Dao has gained international acclaim over the last decade for his haunting interior poetic landscapes; his poetry is translated and published in some twenty-five languages around the world. Now, in Midnight's Gate, Bei Dao redefines the essay form with the same elliptical precision of his poetry, but with an openness and humor that complements the complexity of his poems. The twenty essays of Midnight's Gate form a travelogue of a poet who has lived in some seven countries since his exile from China in 1989. The work carries us from Palestine to Sacramento. At one point we are led into a basement in Paris for a production of Gorky's Lower Depths, the next moment we are in the mountains of China where Bei Dao worked for eleven years as a concrete mixer and ironworker. The subjective experience deepens and multiplies in these essays, filled with the stories of ordinary Chinese immigrants, as well as those of literary, artistic, and political figures. And it all coheres with a poet's observations, meditations, and memories.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811215848
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Twenty essays about Bei Dao's life in exile since Tiananmen Square."Knowledge of death is the only key that can open midnight's gate."Bei Dao Bei Dao has gained international acclaim over the last decade for his haunting interior poetic landscapes; his poetry is translated and published in some twenty-five languages around the world. Now, in Midnight's Gate, Bei Dao redefines the essay form with the same elliptical precision of his poetry, but with an openness and humor that complements the complexity of his poems. The twenty essays of Midnight's Gate form a travelogue of a poet who has lived in some seven countries since his exile from China in 1989. The work carries us from Palestine to Sacramento. At one point we are led into a basement in Paris for a production of Gorky's Lower Depths, the next moment we are in the mountains of China where Bei Dao worked for eleven years as a concrete mixer and ironworker. The subjective experience deepens and multiplies in these essays, filled with the stories of ordinary Chinese immigrants, as well as those of literary, artistic, and political figures. And it all coheres with a poet's observations, meditations, and memories.
The Air-conditioned Nightmare
Author: Henry Miller
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811201063
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
His stories and essays celebrate those rare individuals (famous and obscure) whose creative resilience and mere existence oppose the mechanization of minds and souls.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811201063
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
His stories and essays celebrate those rare individuals (famous and obscure) whose creative resilience and mere existence oppose the mechanization of minds and souls.
Nightwood
Author: Djuna Barnes
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811216715
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The fiery and enigmatic masterpiece--one of the greatest novels of the Modernist era.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811216715
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The fiery and enigmatic masterpiece--one of the greatest novels of the Modernist era.