New Directions Poetry Pamphlets – serie
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Musical Hell
Häftad, 2013
142 kr
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"An aura of legendary prestige surrounds the work of Alejandra Pizarnik," writes César Aira. Her last collection to be published before her suicide in 1972, A Musical Hell is the first book of poems by Pizarnik to be published in its entirety in the U.S. Pizarnik writes at the edge of poetic …
Sorting Facts, or Nineteen Ways of Looking at Marker
Av Susan Howe
Häftad, 2013
137 kr
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Part of our revived "Poetry Pamphlet Series", Sorting Facts is Susan Howe’s masterful meditation on the filmmaker Chris Marker, whose film stills are interspersed throughout.An excerpt:Sorting word-facts I only know an apparition. Scribble grammarhas no neighbor. In the name of reason I need to …
Two American Scenes
Av Lydia Davis, Eliot Weinberger
Häftad, 2013
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Part of our revived "Poetry Pamphlet" series, Two American Scenes features two masters of the essay discussing "found material."Excerpts:It was given to me, in the nineteenth century,to spend a lifetime on this earth. Along with a few of the sorrowsthat are appointed unto men, I have had …
Eiko and Koma
Häftad, 2013
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For over thirty years, Eiko & Koma, the Japanese-born choreographers and dancers,have created an influential theatre of movement out of stillness, shape, light, and sound. In tribute and collaboration, the acclaimed American poet Forrest Gander has written a mesmerizing series of poems — hinging …
Vale Ave
Häftad, 2013
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Vale Ave — Latin for “Farewell, Hail” — is a hymn to Eros that unfolds as a gorgeous palimpsest of eternal recurrence and reincarnation, charting the course of two lovers who each seek the other across cultures, myths, and centuries. Vale Ave is alchemical — “mystery and portent, yes, but at the …
Fullblood Arabian
Av Osama Alomar
Häftad, 2014
145 kr
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A prominent practitioner of the Arabic “very short story” (al-qisa al-qasira jiddan), Osama Alomar’s poetic fictions embody the wisdom of Kahlil Gibran filtered through the violent gray absurdity of Assad’s police state. Fullblood Arabian is the first publication of Alomar’s strange, often …
Poems to Read on a Streetcar
Häftad, 2014
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Virtually unknown in the English-speaking world, Girondo is one of the pioneers of Latin American literature. This selection offers a glimpse of a precise and playful writer who insisted that a poem “should be constructed like a watch and sold like a sausage.”
Blasts Cries Laughter
Häftad, 2014
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s Blasts contains blasts, blessings, and curses in the vortex of today, taking its cues from the original little magazine, Blast, published by Wyndham Lewis with Ezra Pound in 1914–15 that helped create the modernist movement in literature and the visual arts. In these …
Dirty Poem
Häftad, 2015
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Written in 1975 in Buenos Aires when Ferreira Gullar was in political exile from the Brazilian dictatorship, Dirty Poem is an epic poem that amid life events traces the author’s political and artistic evolution and is by most accounts the most important long poem of contemporary Brazilian …
Poetry Pamphlets 17-19
Av Robert Lax, Ferreira Gullar m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
294 kr
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A three-pack of our Spring 2015 Poetry Pamphlets, featuring:A Hermit's Guide to Home Economics, by Robert LaxDirt Poem, by Ferreira GullarHospital Series, by Amelia Rosselli
Blue Pearl
Häftad, 2017
127 kr
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What does northness sound like? The music of Iceland, Greenland, the Svalbard archipelago. Songs of birds and ice and wind. In Lesley Harrison’s Blue Pearl, her first collection to appear in the United States, northern landscapes come alive through an intimacy of language that forms a collective …
Sea, Land, Shadow
Häftad, 2017
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the people, the boats completely gone with the tsunami / tonight you would not be able to sleep —from Sea, Land, ShadowSea, Land, Shadow, the fourth collection by Kazuko Shiraishi to be published by New Directions, comprises work written over sixty-years, from 1951 to 2015. Shiraishi, described by …
21 Poems
Av George Oppen
Häftad, 2017
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The Objectivist Press published George Oppen’s first book Discrete Series, a collection of thirty-one short poems with a preface by Ezra Pound, in 1934. Four years earlier, the twenty-one-year-old poet had sent an unbound sheaf of typewritten poems with the title 21 Poems hand-written in pencil on …
Hermit's Guide to Home Economics
Häftad, 2015
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Robert Lax’s Hermit’s Guide to Home Economics combines three long poems the poet composed on the Island of Patmos, where he lived a life separated from the rest of the world in the natural setting of that desert isle. Lax writes humorously about his “hermit” life, as if he were King Solomon doing a …
Pneumatic Antiphonal
Häftad, 2013
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Part of our revived "Poetry Pamphlets" series, Pneumatic Antiphonal is a fun, humming, bio-physiological word-whizzing flight into birdsong penned by young Canadian poet, Sylvia Legris — her first publication in the U.S.An excerpt:The theory of corpuscular flight is the cardinal premiseof red birds …
Poetry Pamphlets 1-4
Av Lydia Davis, Eliot Weinberger m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
388 kr
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The first four collections in our revitalized Poetry Pamphlet series, established to highlight original work from writers around the world as well as forgotten treasures lost in the cracks of literary history.Included are: Two American Scenes: Our Village & A Journey on the Colorado River, by Lydia …
Beautiful Contradictions
Häftad, 2013
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The Beautiful Contradictions is an awe-inspiring vortex of mythology, history, and anthropology that pushes the lyric to its upper limit. A vast ecopoem for a dying Earth,a socially radical poem, a matrilineal drama, a Judeo-Mayan-Buddhist initiation, a transatlantic epic ending as a transamerican …
Fifteen Iraqi Poets
Häftad, 2013
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Fifteen Iraqi Poets compiles fifteen poems, each written by a different, prominent twentieth-century Iraqi poet. Selected, with commentary, by award-winning Iraqi-American poet, Dunya Mikhail, this little anthology is the perfect introduction to a glorious literature that traces its roots back to …
Poetry Pamphlets 9-12
Av Osama Alomar, Lawrence Ferlinghetti m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
388 kr
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This bundle of four Poetry Pamphlets (9-12 in the series) includes:Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Blasts Cries LaughterOsama Alomar's Fullblood ArabianOliverio Girondo's Poems to Read on a StreetcarFifteen Iraqi Poets (edited by Dunya Mikhail)
Hospital Series
Häftad, 2015
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Hospital Series, a bruisingly intimate colloquy with an elusive lover, is Italian poet Amelia Rosselli’s virtuoso, subversive, neo-Petrarchan sequence of poems. Rosselli wrote much of the series in the mid 1960s after being hospitalized for a mental illness she suffered from for most of her life, …
Across the Vapour Gulf
Häftad, 2017
127 kr
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In Will Alexander’s work, “Every poem reads like a subversive, alchemical wonder. It is tempting to label Alexander a surrealist or experimentalist, but he is truly a singular voice” (Jackson Poetry Prize citation).Composed and collected by slow accretion over the span of thirty years, Across the …
