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New Directions paperbook volume 147
Pub. Date
1964.
Physical Desc
xix, 1 unnumbered page, 140 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents 100 Japanese poems drawn chiefly from the traditional "Manyoshu," "Kokinshu," and "Hyakunin Isshu" collections as well as haiku and other forms. Contains the English and Japanese version on the same page.
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Series
New Directions paperbook volume 724
Pub. Date
1991.
Physical Desc
148 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume NDP1233
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
xix, 232 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A new edition of the definitive book on the depression-era immigrant experience in New York City.
5) The wall
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"While vacationing in a hunting lodge in the Austrian mountains, a middle-aged woman awakens one morning to find herself separated from the rest of the world by an invisible wall. With a cat, a dog, and a cow as her sole companions, she learns how to survive and cope with her loneliness. Allegorical yet deeply personal and absorbing, The Wall is at once a critique of modern civilization, a nuanced and loving portrait of a relationship between a woman...
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Series
New Directions paperbook volume NDP 1375
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
250 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume NDP1382
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
209 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Told in short, cinematic bursts, Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash is gloriously pulpy. Ajo Kawir, a lower-class Javanese teenage boy excited about sex, likes to spy on fellow villagers in flagrante. But one night he ends up witnessing the savage rape of a beautiful crazy woman by two policemen. Deeply traumatized, he becomes impotent. His efforts to get his virility back all fail, and Ajo Kawir turns to fighting as a way to vent his frustrations....
8) Be with
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1408
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
92 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Drawing from his experience as a translator, Forrest Gander includes in the first, powerfully elegiac section a version of a poem by the Spanish mystical poet St. John of the Cross. He continues with a long multilingual poem examining the syncretic geological and cultural history of the U.S. border with Mexico. The poems of the third section--a moving transcription of Gander's efforts to address his mother dying of Alzheimer's-- rise from the page...
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Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1416
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 21 cm.
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.
10) Our riches
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Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1466
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
148 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Our Riches celebrates quixotic devotion and the love of books in the person of Edmond Charlot, who at the age of twenty founded Les Vraies Richesses (Our True Wealth), the famous Algerian bookstore/publishing house/lending library. He more than fulfilled its motto 'by the young, for the young', discovering the twenty-four-year-old Albert Camus in 1937. His entire archive was twice destroyed by the French colonial forces, but despite financial difficulties...
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Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1469
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
101 pages ; 20 x 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Mei-mei Berssenbrugge's A Treatise on Stars extends the intensely phenomenological poetics of 'The Star Field' in Empathy, which appeared over thirty years ago. The book is structured as a continuous enfolding of poems, each made up of numbered serial parts, their presiding poetic consciousness moving from the desert arroyo of New Mexico to the white-tailed deer of Maine and between conversations with daughter, husband, friends, pets (corn snake...
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New Directions paperbook volume 1498
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
83 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the searing ecological and love poems of his new collection, Twice Alive, Pulitzer Prize winner Forrest Gander addresses the exigencies of our historical moment and the intimacies, personal and environmental, that bind us to others and to the world. Drawing from his training in geology and on the tradition of Sangam literature, Gander invests these poems with an emotional intensity that illumines our deep-tangled interrelations. While conducting...
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