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Apocalypse and Other PoemsApocalypse and Other Poems by Nicaragua's revolutionist poet-priest, Ernesto Cardenal, is the author's second book, the first of poetry, to be published by New Directions. The editors of this volume, Robert Pring-Mill and Donald D. Walsh, have chosen a representative selection of Cardenal's shorter...
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Selected Poetry and ProseSelected Poetry and Prose of St phane Mallarm presents what can be considered the essential work of the renowned "father of the Symbolists." Mallarm 's major elegies, sonnets, and other verse, including excerpts from the dialogue "H riodiade," are all assembled here with the...
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The Real Work: Interviews and Talks, 1964-79The Real Work is the second volume of Gary Snyder's prose to be published by New Directions. Where his earlier Earth House Hold(1969) heralded the tribalism of the coming revolution, the interviews in The Real Work focus on the living out of that process...
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Freeing of the DustSixty poems reflect the contemporary writer's personal sentiments on the tragedy of war, the need to be free, and the meaning of family relationships and friendships.Author: Denise LevertovPublisher: New Directions Publishing CorporationPublished: 01/17/1975Pages: 124Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.36lbsSize: 7.94h x 5.21w x 0.36dISBN: 9780811205825
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From Snow and Rock, from Chaos: Poems, 1965-1972Once again, the setting for many of the pieces is the Green Mountains of Vermont, where the poet and his family have lived for several years. A member of the editorial board of The Hudson Review and a regular contributor to numerous periodicals, he...
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Confucius to Cummings: Poetry AnthologyThis anthology is Ezra Pound's own choice of the poetry of various ages and cultures--ranging from his translations of the Confucian Odes up to E. E. Cummings--which he considered the finest of its type. It is a statement by example of the Pound critical...
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In Quest of CandlelightersA collection of abstracted prose stories with illustrations.Author: Kenneth PatchenPublisher: New Directions Publishing CorporationPublished: 12/01/1972Pages: 142Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.33lbsSize: 7.98h x 5.23w x 0.37dISBN: 9780811201414This title is not returnable
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The World Is RoundThe World Is Round, Nikky Finney's third volume of poetry, collects the wisps of memory we carry with us throughout our earthly lives and weaves them into deft and nuanced poems that emphasize understanding the cycles of life. The settings offer a view into...
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Neckbone: Visual VersesThe "blk alter" of Avery R. Young's poetic vision makes its stunning debut in a multidisciplinary arsenal entitled, neckbone: visual verses. Young's years of supernatural fieldwork within the black experience and the gospel of his transitions between poetry, art and music, become the stitch,...
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Anagnorisis: PoemsWinner of the 2019 Academy of American Poets Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize In Anagnorisis: Poems, the award-winning poet Kyle Dargan ignites a reckoning. From the depths of his rapidly changing home of Washington, D.C., the poet is both enthralled and provoked, having witnessed-on a...
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Dulce: PoemsThe poems in Dulce are at once confession and elegy that admit the speaker's attempt and possible failure to reconcile intimacy toward another and toward the self. The collection asks: what's the point in any of this?--meaning, what's the use of longing beyond pleasure;...
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Letters on God and Letters to a Young WomanRainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) was an avid letter writer, and more than seven thousand of his letters have survived. The best-known collection today is Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, first published in 1929. Two other letter collections appeared around the same time and...
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ApocryphaApocrypha: Catherynne M. Valente's first full-length poetry collection, where freaks, emperors, bodhisattvas, beasts, witches, wicked stepmothers, Greek heroes, told seductively and wickedly in poem and prose, jostle and vie for supremacy . . .Author: Catherynne M. ValentePublisher: Prime BooksPublished: 07/01/2005Pages: 132Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.39lbsSize:...
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Nostalgia for a World Where We Can LiveMonica Berlin's Nostalgia for a World Where We Can Live resides at the turbulent confluence of relentless news cycles and the repeated rending of our interior lives. In Berlin's poetry sorrow makes its own landscape--solitary, intimate, forward-looking. Whether we attempt to traverse it or...
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Idanre and Other PoemsOne long poem and an eclectic mix of short poems from the Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian playwright, novelist, poet, and polemical essayist Wole Soyinka.Wole Soyinka is one of Africa's outstanding writers. He is already well known in the United States as a playwright; two of...
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Georg Buchner: Complete Plays and ProseThe life of Georg Buchner was short, intense, and tragic--and extremely significant for the development of modern drama. His three plays, Danton's Death, Leonce and Lena, and Woyzeck, were greatly ahead of their time in their penetrating dramatic and psychological treatment. They served as...
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Traditionalism in the Works of Francisco de Quevedo Y VillegasThis study offers an investigation of the various facets of Spanish Traditionalism--political, religious, literary, cultural, and stylistic--through the works of Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas, one of the most complex authors of the Spanish Golden Age. Each chapter in the volume opens with a...
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Black Bard of North CarolinaFor his humanistic religious verse, his poignant and deeply personal antislavery poems, and, above all, his lifelong enthusiasm for liberty, nature, and the art of poetry, George Moses Horton merits a place of distinction among nineteenth-century African American poets. Enslaved from birth until the...
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The Collected Poems of Jean ToomerThis volume is the only collected edition of poems by Jean Toomer, the enigmatic American writer, Gurdjieffian guru, and Quaker convert who is perhaps best known for his 1923 lyrical narrative Cane. The fifty-five poems here -- most of them previously unpublished -- chart...
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My Surly Heart: PoemsIn My Surly Heart, the prolific poet and novelist David Huddle reflects on turning seventy-six years of age and records his aghast reactions to changes brought about by the current president of the United States. Huddle avoids the pitfalls of speechifying, pseudo-philosophizing, or indulging...
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