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Published by Brand: New Directions Publishing, 1983
ISBN 10: 0811208826ISBN 13: 9780811208826
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. This New Directions Paperbook brings back into print the 1975 Oxford University Press edition of Stevie Smiths Collected Poems, her complete poetic works edited by her long-time friend James MacGibbon. On gray days when most modern poetry seems one dull colorless voice speaking through a hundred rival styles, one turns to Stevie Smith and enjoys her unique and cheerfully gruesome voice. She is a charming and original poet, commented Robert Lowell about the book that introduced Stevie to American readers, her Selected Poems (New Directions, 1964). The Selected won her many enthusiasts, but it was not until the release of Hugh Whitemores film Stevie in 1981 that her poetry found a wider audience and sent that little book repeatedly back to press. The title of Miss Smiths first published collection (London, 1937) was A Good Time Was Had By All, and indeed that is what her poetry, embroidered by her delightful, apposite doodles, provides. It brings us too into the company of wit, irony, and, as Brendan Gill remarked, images of joy and terror. A Newsweek reviewer wrote, Even in the lightest of her verse, the briefest epigram, there is a resonance, the reverberation of a triangle, if not a gong.
Published by Brand: New Directions, 1972
ISBN 10: 081120099XISBN 13: 9780811200998
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Revised. Compiles the trappist monk's meditations and reflections on Christ, self, love, and life.
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Published by Brand: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1963
ISBN 10: 0811200701ISBN 13: 9780811200707
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Softcover. Condition: Good. SAME COVER AS STOCK PHOTO SHOWN. MINOR EDGEWEAR AND CHAFING ON COVERS & PAGES. NO MARKING OR WRITING NOTED IN BOOK.
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Published by Brand: New Directions Publishing, 1996
ISBN 10: 0811208575ISBN 13: 9780811208574
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Discusses the poetry of Ezra Pound in the context of his life and explains the literary allusions in his major poems.
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Published by Brand: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1985
ISBN 10: 0811209415ISBN 13: 9780811209410
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940) required the dramatic and fictional forms as the pianist needs both his left and his right hands. While he is best known here for his novels, in the U.S.S.R. he is also famous for his plays. Neither of the plays in this volume, Flight (1926-28) and Bliss (1934), was published until long after the authors death. By 1929, his persistent refusal to conform to the demands of the Communist government and critics had led to a ban on all his work. Flight was not produced until 1957 and Bliss has never yet been produced. Flight incensed the critics because Bulgakov treated some of the Civil Wars Whites as suffering, doomed human beings rather than stock images of the class enemy. This tragicomedy is dominated by the nightmare figure of General Khludov, both executioner and victim, disintegrating as his world disintegrates. Charnota, on the other hand, is the hyperbolic image of a man hellbent for destruction, descending from White Major General to penniless gambler in Constantinoples cockroach races. In Bliss, for the first time in English translation, the engineer Rein travels to the past in his time machine and returns with Ivan the Terrible accidentally in tow. Four centuries ahead of his time, the Tsar is stranded in Reins attic, bellowing imprecations. The bureaucrat Bunsha (a former prince who, for security in a proletarian state, insists he is the illegitimate son of his fathers coachman) is foiled in efforts to report this tumultuous housing violation by an involuntary trip with Rein to the year 2222. A pickpocket, Miloslavsky, also transported to this serene, policeless future, weeps nostalgically before the museum effigy of a policeman.
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Published by Brand: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1971
ISBN 10: 0811203557ISBN 13: 9780811203555
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Book by Pound, Ezra.
Published by Brand: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2001
ISBN 10: 081121463XISBN 13: 9780811214636
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. How to Paint Sunlight, a new collection of poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, is graced with a short introduction by the poet in which he says, "All I ever wanted to do was paint light on the walls of life." For more than fifty years Ferlinghetti has been doing just thatilluminating both the everyday and the unusual, all the while keeping true to his original dictum of speaking in a way accessible to everyone. He has been, and remains "one of our ageless radicals and true bards" (Booklist).
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Published by Brand: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1983
ISBN 10: 0811208478ISBN 13: 9780811208475
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Softcover. Condition: Good. The celebrated French author's first autobiographical novel takes Ferdinand Bardamu on a search for fulfillment and meaning through Flemish battlefields, Parisian alleys, American slums and factories, and back to the suburbs of Paris.
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Published by Brand: New Directions Publishing, 1986
ISBN 10: 0811210111ISBN 13: 9780811210119
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Describes the historical background of the poem and poses questions about Chinese mythology and the nature of the universe.
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Published by Brand: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1978
ISBN 10: 0811206521ISBN 13: 9780811206525
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Book by Rothenberg, Jerome.
Published by Brand: New Directions, 1978
ISBN 10: 0811206807ISBN 13: 9780811206808
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. 3rd prt. Eight stories portray the world of the New York intellectual during the 1930's and 1940's, probing the conflict between ambitious, educated youths and their immigrant parents.
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Published by Brand: New Directions, 1993
ISBN 10: 0811212521ISBN 13: 9780811212526
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition (1st printing). Book by Ferlinghetti, Lawrence.
Published by Brand: New Directions, 1993
ISBN 10: 0811212343ISBN 13: 9780811212342
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. In 1938 Henry Green, then thirty-three, dreaded the coming war and decided to "put down what comes to mind before one is killed." Published in England in 1940, Pack My Bag has heretofore not appeared in the U.S. When he wrote it, Green had already published three of his nine novels and his style - "a gathering web of insinuations" - was fully developed.Pack My Bag is a marvelously quirky, clear-eyed memoir; a mother who shot at mangle wurzels on the lawn; the stately home packed with wounded soldiers of World War I; the miseries of Eton, oddities of Oxford, and work in the family factory - the making of a brilliantly original novelist. "We have inherited the greatest orchestra, the English language, to conduct," Green once wrote. "The means are there; things are going on in life all the time around us." His use of language and his account of things that went on in his life inform this delightful and idiosyncratic autobiography.
Published by Brand: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2000
ISBN 10: 0811213935ISBN 13: 9780811213936
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. When a gypsy finds a headless body, young tabloid journalist Firmino is eager to report the story and discovers that the dead man was an employee at an import-export company where he stumbled upon a heroin smuggling ring.
Published by Brand: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1989
ISBN 10: 0811210928ISBN 13: 9780811210928
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Letters written to his childhood friend and chief mentor, commercial artist Emil Schnellock, from 1922 through 1934 demonstrate Miller's growth as a writer and the development of his earthy yet philosophical style.
Published by Brand: New Directions, 1988
ISBN 10: 0811210782ISBN 13: 9780811210782
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Paperback Edition. Spanning four generations and chiefly set in the darkening universe of New Delhi during Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's Emergency (1976-77), "Rich Like Us" runs on the oddly parallel life tracks of two very different women. A time promising wealth for the corrupt, but terrifying with sterilization for the poor and jail for the critical, the Emergency changes forever the lives of both women. Sonali and Rose, one Indian, the other cockney English, are deeply devoted friends. Because of her outmoded honesty, Sonalis successful civil service career is terminated, waking her from her dream of a new India. For Rose, second wife of a Hindu businessman, the corruption of society sets the scene for the last episode of her long adjustment to her adopted home.
Published by Brand: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1998
ISBN 10: 0811213889ISBN 13: 9780811213882
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Once Again for Thucydides is a collection of seventeen micro-epics written by Peter Handke on trips around the world, from the Balkans to the Pyrenees, from Salzburg to the sea of Hokkaido in Japan. In each journal, Handke concentrates on small things he observes, trying to capture their essence, their simple, unadorned validity. What results is a work of remarkable precision, in which he uncovers the general appearance of random objects--an ash tree, a shoeshine man, hats in a crowd, a boat loading on a pier--and discovers their inner workings and mystery. Always, his writing hints at the unknown. Describing the snow melting in a garden or falling during a train ride through inland Japan, the glowworms illuminating the plains in Friuli, the tidal waters flowing and receding off the Atlantic coast of Spain, these amazing little epics reveal a narrator obsessed with the wonders of detail and marveling, as are we, at the scope and variety of the natural world.
Published by Brand: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1975
ISBN 10: 0811205894ISBN 13: 9780811205894
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Reprinted. Book by Rachewiltz, Mary De.
Published by Brand: New Directions, 1986
ISBN 10: 0811209911ISBN 13: 9780811209915
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Reissue. It is superb in its swift illuminations and its wit. [Michaux has] a way of leading you to the unpredictable margins of his sensibility, as when he notes, apropos of the generality of psychic gifts in India, that it makes the distinction between imbeciles and non-imbeciles ' so unsatisfactory' -Alfred Kazin, New Yorker Henri Michaux (1889-1984), the great French poet and painter, set out as a young man to see the Far East. His strange insights and ironic impressions comprise A Barbarian in Asia, presented here in its original version in the classic translation by Sylvia Beach, the famous Paris bookseller.
Published by Brand: New Directions, 2000
ISBN 10: 0811214303ISBN 13: 9780811214308
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. The beguiling first novel by W. G. Sebald, one of the most enormously acclaimed European writers of our time. Vertigo, W. G. Sebald's first novel, never before translated into English, is perhaps his most amazing and certainly his most alarming. Sebald-the acknowledged master of memory's uncanniness-takes the painful pleasures of unknowability to new intensities in Vertigo. Here in their first flowering are the signature elements of Sebald's hugely acclaimed novels The Emigrants and The Rings of Saturn. An unnamed narrator, beset by nervous ailments, is again our guide on a hair-raising journey through the past and across Europe, amid restless literary ghosts-Kafka, Stendhal, Casanova. In four dizzying sections, the narrator plunges the reader into vertigo, into that "swimming of the head," as Webster's defines it: in other words, into that state so unsettling, so fascinating, and so "stunning and strange," as The New York Times Book Review declared about The Emigrants, that it is "like a dream you want to last forever."
Published by Brand: New Directions Publishing, 1987
ISBN 10: 0811210251ISBN 13: 9780811210256
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Essays on poetry and society from the 1930's to the 1970's covering a wide variety of artists and issues from alchemy to jazz to Eastern influences on Western literature.
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Published by Brand: New Directions, 1983
ISBN 10: 0811208508ISBN 13: 9780811208505
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. A portrait of the life of the distinguished Italian author, Cesare Pavese, includes critical analyses of his major fiction and poetry.
Published by Brand: New Directions, 1976
ISBN 10: 0811206157ISBN 13: 9780811206150
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. from DISCRETE SERIES to 1975 (excluding PRIMITIVE).
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Published by Brand: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1996
ISBN 10: 0811213242ISBN 13: 9780811213240
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Set during the advent of perestroika, a surreal, satirical novella by a critically acclaimed young Russian writer traces the fate of the passengers on The Yellow Arrow, a long-distance Russian train headed for a ruined bridge.
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Published by Brand: New Directions Pub. Corp, 1985
ISBN 10: 0811209520ISBN 13: 9780811209526
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Introduction by Gore Vidal. Included contents of his four previously published short story books combined with unpublished or uncollected stories. Hardcover. Original jacket. Blue cloth. Light toning. Very Good/Very Good.
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Published by Brand: New Directions, 1992
ISBN 10: 081121219XISBN 13: 9780811212199
Seller: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, U.S.A.
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Condition: very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
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Published by Brand: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1994
ISBN 10: 0811212726ISBN 13: 9780811212724
Seller: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, U.S.A.
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Condition: very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
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Published by Brand: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1984
ISBN 10: 0811208729ISBN 13: 9780811208727
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Gathers letters written by the Spanish poet to his friends, other poets, artists, and family members.
Published by Brand: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1996
ISBN 10: 0811213161ISBN 13: 9780811213165
Seller: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, U.S.A.
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Condition: very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
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Published by Brand: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1999
ISBN 10: 0811214184ISBN 13: 9780811214186
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Traces four souls through four Indian epochs, the classical, the medieval, the colonial, and the modern post-national.
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