Author: Tennessee William
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporatio
Keywords: play, ghost, hotel, summer, clothes
Number of Pages: 77
Published: 1983-02-01
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 0811208710
ISBN-13: 9780811208710

Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporatio
Keywords: american, version, new, part, faust, goethe
Number of Pages: 188
Published: 1957-06-01
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0811200566
ISBN-13: 9780811200561

Randall Jarrell’s translation of Goethe’s classic, illustrated with extraordinary new drawings by Peter SisRandall Jarrell’s translation of Faust is one of his most important achievements. In 1957 he inscribed Goethe’s motto on the first page of his notebook: "Ohne Hast aber ohne Rast" ("Without haste but without rest"), and from then until his death in 1965 he worked on the masterpiece of his "own favorite daemon, dear good great Goethe." His intent was to make the German poetry free, unrhymed poetry in English. He all but finished the job before he died, and the few l

Author: Allen Grossma
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporatio
Keywords: selected, new, poems, dome, ether
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 1991-10-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0811211843
ISBN-13: 9780811211840

Author: Allen Grossma
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporatio
Keywords: poems, book, tears, things
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2001-05-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0811214648
ISBN-13: 9780811214643

The award-winning poet’s newest book of poems is heroic and of mythic proportions, showing the compassionate side of men. How to Do Things with Tears is a book of poems brought forth by the Sighted Singer, the poet who holds the central place in Allen Grossman’s newest poetic work. "This is a how-to book," Grossman explains. "The heroic singer of tradition is blind. A new singer in this present must be sighted. In this book the poet intends to say something, insofar as a poet can, about the common sadness of living and dying in the world." Like the blind bard of old, Grossman’

Author: Allen Grossma
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporatio
Keywords: man, old, new, poems, youth, sweet
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2002-09-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0811215229
ISBN-13: 9780811215220

A comprehensive lifetime selection of poetry—from the Sweet Youth to the Old Man. Of the early work of Allen Grossman, the late Robert Fitzgerald once wrote: "At times they seem poems of great age, poems at the world’s verge, at the verge of time." Of the later work, Jorie Graham observed: "In [his] marriage of means—part almanac, part allegory, part advice column, obituary page, hymnal, epic drama—from the bottom reaches of the underworld, to the elevations from which one need cry out to be heard—Grossman invents such peace as Poetry can invent." In Sweet Youth, the

Authors:Yoko Tawada, Susan Bernofsky, Yumi Selde,
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporatio
Keywords: begins, europe
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2002-10-01
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0811215156
ISBN-13: 9780811215152

A gorgeous collection of fantastic and dreamlike tales by one of the world’s most innovative contemporary writers. Where Europe Begins presents a collection of startling new stories by Japanese writer Yoko Tawada. Moving through landscapes of fairy tales, family history, strange words and letters, dreams, and every-day reality, Tawada’s work blurs divisions between fact and fiction, prose and poetry. Often set in physical spaces as disparate as Japan, Siberia, Russia, and Germany, these tales describe a fragmented world where even a city or the human body can become a sort of text.

Authors:Roberto Bolano,  Chris Andrew,
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporatio
Keywords: star, distant
Number of Pages: 149
Published: 2004-12-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0811215865
ISBN-13: 9780811215862

A chilling novel about the nightmare of a corrupt and brutal dictatorship. The star of Roberto Bolaño’s hair-raising novel Distant Star is Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an air force pilot who exploits the 1973 coup to launch his own version of the New Chilean Poetry, a multi-media enterprise involving sky-writing, poetry, torture, and photo exhibitions. For our unnamed narrator, who first encounters this "star" in a college poetry workshop, Ruiz-Tagle becomes the silent hand behind every evil act in the darkness of Pinochet’s regime. The narrator, unable to stop himself, tries to track Ruiz