The Book of Elaborations


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The art of the informal essay finds elegant voice in Oscar Mandel's The Book of Elaborations.










New Directions 53


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The fifty-third number of New Directions, an annual literary magazine in book form, presents writing from around the world.




New Directions 24


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Thomas Merton and James Laughlin


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Cloistered in a remote Kentucky monastery, Thomas Merton struggled as a young man to reconcile his preferred contemplative life and his public passion for writing. Here is the remarkable development of Thomas Merton monk, poet, and social critic as documented in nearly 30 years' of correspondence with his mentor and publisher, James Laughlin.




The Course of English Surrealist Poetry Since the 1930s


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This study proposes that there has been a revival of surrealist poetry, and traces an uninterrupted thread of development in surrealism throughout 20th-century English poetry.




The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton


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"With the [publication of this book], an ever-wider audience may more fully appreciate the ... range of the poet's technique, the scope of his concerns, and the humaneness of his vision"--Back cover.




New Directions in Philosophy and Literature


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This forward-thinking volume draws on new developments in philosophy including speculative realism, object-oriented ontology, the new materialisms, posthumanism, analytic philosophy of language and metaphysics, and ecophilosophy alongside close readings of a range of texts from the literary canon.