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Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[1979]
Language
English
Description
Now available. Here are the early poems which first brought Denise Levertov's work to prominence -- from early uncollected poems, selections from The Double Image (London, 1946), and her three books Here and Now (1957), Overland to the Islands (1958) and With Eyes at the Back of Our Heads (1960), which established her as one of the more lyrical and most influential poets of the "New American" poetry.
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook ; 496
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[1980]
Language
English
Description
Josephine, a mouse, takes a vow of celibacy in order to devote all her time to her art, singing.
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook ; NDP497
Publisher
New Directions Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
Description
It is a warm June morning in the West End of St. Louis in the mid-thirties -- a lovely Sunday for a picnic at Creve Coeur Lake. But Dorothea, one of the author's most engaging "marginally youthful," forever hopeful Southern belles, is home waiting for a phone call from the principal of the high school where she teaches civics -- the man she expects to fulfill her deferred dreams of romance and matrimony.
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook ; 525
Publisher
Published for James Laughlin by New Directions
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In the 17th Century, a Japanese trade delegation travels to Mexico accompanied by Father Velasco, a Franciscan missionary acting as interpreter. On the way he converts them, using the argument that this will assure the success of their mission. It doesn't and on their return to Japan they are persecuted for their new faith.
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook ; 544
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
English
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook ; 558
Publisher
Published for James Laughlin by New Directions Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
English
Description
In William Herrick's Kill Memory, erasing the past is just what seventy-one-year-old Elizabeth cannot do. A woman who has had many lovers, a ruthless revolutionary, a courageous underground courier during World War II, and now a disengaged exile waiting out a solitary existence in Paris, Boishke (as Elizabeth has always been called) gives her primary attention the the rituals of living-- eating, dressing, walking, realistically facing up to old age,...
90) Mirrors
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook ; NDP559
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[1983]
Language
English
Description
Love and loss, birth and death, the passage of time are recurrent themes in Mirrors, Robert Creeley's first major collection of new work since 1979. Seizing on the particulars of his own life and others', the poems gathered here are not so much meditations as reflections, the "mirrors" of the title, of the poet's world then and now. The British critic James Campbell, writing in the Times Literary Supplement, has said that "behind Creeley's best work...
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook ; 551
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
[1983]
Language
English
Description
A visiting professor of Swedish named Lars Gustafsson finds himself involved in "a sudden series of bizarre events" in Austin, Texas, in 1974.
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook ; 585
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
English
Description
This collection of thirteen "doctor stories," six poems on medical matters, and a selection from The Autobiography "can help many others take a knowing look at the medical profession."--Back cover.
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook ; 577
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
English
Description
" ... Hawkes's own selection from his novels, stories, and his current novel-in-progress, Adventures in the Alaskan Skin Trade. In autobiographical commentaries, Hawkes provides a context for each of the selections and discusses the genesis and the writing of his work. As a novelist whose creative life has depended largely on travel, he evokes the actual places that have inspired his imaginary worlds: the Alaska of his boyhood; the Caribbean island...
94) Selected poems
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook ; 581
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
English
Description
Poems deal with love, sensuality, nature, the seasons, death, justice, music, war, and travel.
95) The blue flowers
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook ; 595
Publisher
New Directions Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook ; 643
Publisher
New Directions Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
97) Not honour more
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook ; 608
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
98) 3 more novels
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook ; 614
Publisher
New Directions Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
99) Memory gardens
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook ; NDP613
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook ; 616
Publisher
New Directions Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
'Stories of Happy People' is a collection of ten short fictions that maps the range of contentment, from inner joy to the edges of despair.
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