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Glass, Irony and God
$15.95 Add to cartKnown as a remarkable classicist, Anne Carson weaves contemporary and ancient poetic strands with stunning style in Glass, Irony and God. This collection includes: “The Glass Essay,” a powerful poem a… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook
- Author: Carson, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: November 17 1995
- ISBN10: 0811213021
- Language: English
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A Season in Hell & the Drunken Boat
$14.95 Add to cartNew Directions is pleased to announce the relaunch of the long-celebrated bilingual edition of Rimbaud’s A Season In Hell & The Drunken Boat — a personal poem of damnation as well as a plea to be rel… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook #1211
- Author: Rimbaud, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 05 2011
- ISBN10: 0811219488
- Language: English
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The Melancholy of Resistance
$17.95 Add to cartA powerful, surreal novel, in the tradition of Gogol, about the chaotic events surrounding the arrival of a circus in a small Hungarian town. The Melancholy of Resistance, L?szl? Krasznahorkai’s magis… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook
- Author: Krasznahorkai, L?szl?
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 17 2002
- ISBN10: 0811215040
- Language: English
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Confessions of a Mask
$15.95 Add to cartConfessions of a Mask tells the story of Kochan, an adolescent boy tormented by his burgeoning attraction to men: he wants to be “normal.” Kochan is meek-bodied, and unable to participate in the more … [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook
- Author: Mishima, Yukio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 17 1958
- ISBN10: 081120118X
- Language: English
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Visitation
$15.95 Add to cartA forested property on a Brandenburg lake outside Berlin lies at the heart of this darkly sensual, elegiac novel. Encompassing over one hundred years of German history, from the nineteenth century to … [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook
- Author: Erpenbeck, Jenny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 30, 2010
- ISBN10: 081121835X
- Language: English
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Midwinter Day
$15.95 Read more“Midwinter Day,” as Alice Notley noted, “is an epic poem about a daily routine.” A poem in six parts, Midwinter Day takes us from awakening and emerging from dreams through the whole day-morning, afte… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook #876
- Author: Mayer, Bernadette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: May 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0811214060
- Language: English
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Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
$18.95 Read moreIn his great triptych “The Millennium,” Bosch used oranges and other fruits to symbolize the delights of Paradise. Whence Henry Miller’s title for this, one of his most appealing books; first publishe… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook #161
- Author: Miller, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 17 1957
- ISBN10: 0811201074
- Language: English
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Immigrants in Our Own Land and Selected Early Poems
$13.95 Add to cartImmigrants in Our Own Land & Selected Early Poems is a new, expanded edition of Jimmy Santiago Baca’s best-selling first book of poetry (originally published by Louisiana State University Press in 197… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook #0701
- Author: Baca, Jimmy Santiago
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 86
- Publish Date: November 17 1990
- ISBN10: 0811211452
- Language: English
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The Emigrants
$16.95 Add to cartThe four long narratives in The Emigrants appear at first to be the straightforward biographies of four Germans in exile. Sebald reconstructs the lives of a painter, a doctor, an elementary-school tea… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook #853
- Author: Sebald, W. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 08 2016
- ISBN10: 081122614X
- Language: English
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Residence On Earth
$18.95 Add to cartIn celebration of the 100th anniversary of Pablo Neruda’s birth, New Directions is pleased to announce the reissue of a classic work in a timeless translation by Donald D. Walsh and fully bilingual. R… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook #992
- Author: Neruda, Pablo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 366
- Publish Date: July 17 2004
- ISBN10: 0811215814
- Language: English
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Illuminations: Prose Poems
$15.95 Add to cartThe prose poems of the great French Symbolist, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891), have acquired enormous prestige among readers everywhere and have been a revolutionary influence on poetry in the twentieth c… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook, No. 56
- Author: Rimbaud, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: January 17 1957
- ISBN10: 0811201848
- Language: English
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The Colossus of Maroussi
$15.95 Add to cartLike the ancient colossus that stood over the harbor of Rhodes, Henry Miller’s The Colossus of Maroussi stands as a seminal classic in travel literature. It has preceded the footsteps of prominent tra… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook
- Author: Miller, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 18 2010
- ISBN10: 0811218570
- Language: English
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Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness
$12.95 Add to cartKaufman promotes a spontaneous, prophetic verse, mixing street talk and jazz with vision. Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness contains odes to Charles Mingus, Hart Crane, Ray Charles, and Albert Camus a… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook
- Author: Kaufman, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 17 1965
- ISBN10: 811200760
- Language: English
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The Wall: (Intimacy) and Other Stories
$14.95 Add to cart‘The Wall’, the lead story in this collection, introduces three political prisoners on the night prior to their execution. Through the gaze of an impartial doctor–seemingly there for the men’s solace… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook
- Author: Sartre, Jean-Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 17 1969
- ISBN10: 0811201902
- Language: English
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The Sunlight Dialogues
$24.95 Add to cartIn The Sunlight Dialogues, John Gardner’s vision of America in the turbulent 1960s embraces an unconventional cast of conventional citizens in the small rural town of Batavia, New York. Sheriff Fred C
- Series: New Directions Paperbook
- Author: Gardner, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 0811216705
- Language: English
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Where Europe Begins: Stories
$15.95 Read moreChosen as a 2005 Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, Where Europe Begins has been described by the Russian literary phenomenon Victor Pelevin as “a spectacular journey through a world of colli… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook
- Author: Tawada, Yoko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 17 2007
- ISBN10: 0811217027
- Language: English
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In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories
$15.95 Read moreNow with an exciting new preface by Lou Reed (Delmore Schwartz’s student at Syracuse), In Dreams Begin Responsibilities collects eight of Schwartz’s finest delineations of New York’s intellectuals in … [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook; Ndp1233
- Author: Schwartz, Delmore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: June 14 2012
- ISBN10: 0811220036
- Language: English
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Death in Midsummer: And Other Stories
$15.95 Add to cartNine of Yukio Mishima’s finest stories were selected by Mishima himself for translation in this book; they represent his extraordinary ability to depict a wide variety of human beings in moments of si… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook
- Author: Mishima, Yukio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 17 1966
- ISBN10: 0811201171
- Language: English
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Stand Still Like the Hummingbird
$14.95 Add to cartOne 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 h… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook
- Author: Miller, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: June 17 1962
- ISBN10: 0811203220
- Language: English
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A Bernadette Mayer Reader
$16.95 Add to cart“What a clear, insistent health there is here–as if the so-called world were seriously the point, which it is, and we could actually live in it, which we do. Truly this is the best How To book I’ve r… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook #0739
- Author: Mayer, Bernadette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 148
- Publish Date: May 17 1992
- ISBN10: 0811212033
- Language: English
