Curve Away from Stillness : Science Poems
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Author : Beidao
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 30,25 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811211345
In Waves, the poet Bei Dao turns to fiction, recording the painful years of the Cultural Revolution and its aftermath. Avoiding polemics, his attention is on individuals swept up in the turbulent political tides of contemporary China.
Author : Eugénio de Andrade
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 24,72 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780811215237
Award-winning poetry in a bilingual edition, by Portugal's best-known living poet.
Author : Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 28,44 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780811214780
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
Author : Djuna Barnes
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 19,16 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811216715
The fiery and enigmatic masterpiece--one of the greatest novels of the Modernist era.
Author : Pablo Neruda
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 12,83 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780811215817
New Directions celebrates the Pablo Neruda Centennial.
Author : Enrique Lihn
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 14,63 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780811206778
"Ease is everything in poetry. It separates genius from the merely masterful, marks the spot where art leaves off and reality begins and the poet speaks not for the poets but for humankind. Enrique Lihn, a Chilean, is a foremost inheritor in [this] Latin American tradition." --Publishers Weekly
Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 19,22 MB
Release : 2009-02-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811219712
A self-portrait of a great writer 's rise and fall, intensely personal and etched with Fitzgerald's signature blend of romance and realism. The Crack-Up tells the story of Fitzgerald's sudden descent at the age of thirty-nine from glamorous success to empty despair, and his determined recovery. Compiled and edited by Edmund Wilson shortly after F. Scott Fitzgerald's death, this revealing collection of his essays—as well as letters to and from Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, T.S. Eliot, John Dos Passos—tells of a man with charm and talent to burn, whose gaiety and genius made him a living symbol of the Jazz Age, and whose recklessness brought him grief and loss. "Fitzgerald's physical and spiritual exhaustion is described brilliantly," noted The New York Review of Books: "the essays are amazing for the candor."
Author : Octavio Paz
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 22,7 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811210713
A Tree Within (Arbol Adentro), the first collection of new poems by the great Mexican author Octavio Paz since his Return (Vuelta) of 1975, was originally published as the final section of The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957-1987. Among these later poems is a series of works dedicated to such artists as Miró, Balthus, Duchamp, Rauschenberg, Tapies, Alechinsky, Monet, and Matta, as well as a number of epigrammatic and Chinese-like lyrics. Two remarkable long poems --"I Speak of the City," a Whitmanesque apocalyptic evocation of the contemporary urban nightmare, and "Letter of Testimony," a meditation on love and death--are emblematic of the mature poet in a prophetic voice.
Author : Henry Miller
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 25,34 MB
Release : 1962-06-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811224031
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.