Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 186
New Directions paperbook volume 1066
New Directions paperbook volume NDP186
New Directions paperbook volume 1066
New Directions paperbook volume NDP186
Language
English
Formats
Description
Forty short stories and essays have been selected as representative of the Argentine writer's metaphysical narratives.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal, which in successive editions contained all of his published poems, has for over a hundred years now opened new vistas for man's imagination and quickened the sensibilities of poets everywhere. The greatest French Poet of the 19th century, Baudelaire was also the first truly modern poet, and his direct and indirect influence on the literature of our time has been immeasurable."
"Selected Flowers of Evil contains 53 poems...
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 276
Language
English
Description
Free renderings of selections from the works of Chuang-tzŭ, taken from various translations.
9) Night train
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1513
Language
English
Description
"Gorgeously translated by Lydia Davis, the miniature stories of A. L. Snijders might concern a lost shoe, a visit with a bat, fears of travel, a dream of a man who has lost a glass eye: uniting them is their concision and their vivacity. Lydia Davis in her introduction delves into her fascination with the pleasures and challenges of translating from a language relatively new to her. She also extolls Snijders's "straightforward approach to storytelling,...
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1400
Language
English
Description
The Poems of Octavio Paz is the first retrospective collection of Paz's poetry to span his entire writing career, from his first published poem at age seventeen to his magnificent last poem. This landmark bilingual edition contains many poems that have never been translated into English before, plus new translations based on Paz's final revisions. Assiduously edited by Eliot Weinberger--who has been translating Paz for over forty years--The Poems...
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume no. 74
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twenty-nine poems from the 1950's.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Although The Book of Hours is the work of Rilke?s youth, it contains the germ of his mature convictions. Written as spontaneously received prayers, these poems celebrate a God who is not the Creator of the Universe but rather humanity itself and, above all, that most intensely conscious part of humanity, the artist. Babette Deutsch?s classic translations--born from ?the pure desire to sing what the poet sang (Ursula K. Le Guin)--capture the rich...
14) On haiku
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume NDP1426
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Who doesn't love haiku? It is not only America's most popular cultural import from Japan but also our most popular poetic form: instantly recognizable, more mobile than a sonnet, and loved for its simplicity and compression, as well as for its ease of composition. Haiku is an ancient literary form seemingly made for the Twittersphere--Jack Kerouac and Langston Hughes wrote them, Ezra Pound and the Imagists were inspired by them, first-grade students...
17) Be with
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1408
Language
English
Description
"Drawing from his experience as a translator, Forrest Gander includes in the first, powerfully elegiac section a version of a poem by the Spanish mystical poet St. John of the Cross. He continues with a long multilingual poem examining the syncretic geological and cultural history of the U.S. border with Mexico. The poems of the third section--a moving transcription of Gander's efforts to address his mother dying of Alzheimer's--rise from the page...
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume NDP1474
Language
English
Description
"A traffic jam outside Paris lasts for weeks. Che Guevara and Fidel Castro meet on a mountaintop during the Cuban Revolution. A flight attendant becomes obsessed with a small Greek island, resulting in a surreal encounter with death. In All Fires the Fire, Julio Cortázar (author of Hopscotch and the short story "Blow-Up") creates his own mindscapes beyond space and time, where lives intersect for brief moments and situations break and refract. All...
20) Blue Fasa
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1304
Language
English
Description
Nathaniel Mackey's sixth collection of poems, Blue Fasa, carries forward what the New Yorker has described as the "mythological conception" and "descriptive daring" of his two intertwined serial poems. A long song that's one and more than one, this collection takes its title from two related black musical traditions, a West African griot epic as told by the Fasa, a clan in ancient Ghana, and trumpeter Kenny Dorham's hard bop classic "Blue Bossa,"...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Suggest a purchase. Submit Request