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Henry Miller and James Laughlin: Selected Letters by James Laughlin 9780393038644
RRP: $53.54Booksplease Price: $45.41Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Guy Davenport and James Laughlin: Selected Letters by Guy Davenport 9780393059502
RRP: $53.54Booksplease Price: $44.79This volume features selections from the New Directions founder's correspondence with Guy Davenport, the polymath artist and author of The Geography of the Imagination. More than simply detailing an... -
Bearskin: A Novel by James A McLaughlin
Booksplease Price: $16.15WINNER OF THE 2019 EDGAR FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL"Bearskin is visceral, raw, and compelling-filled with sights, smells, and sounds truly observed. It's a powerful debut and an absolute showcase of... -
bury it by Sam Sax
Booksplease Price: $15.29sam sax's bury it, winner of the 2017 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, begins with poems written in response to the spate of highly publicized young gay suicides in the summer... -
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The Distant Dead by Heather Young 9780857308146 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $2.98A body burns in the desert... Does the boy who found it know more than it seems? Sal Prentiss, orphaned and burdened with a terrible secret, just wants a place to belong. Sal lives with his uncles on... -
Cat Poems by Elizabeth Bishop
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55You Know How a Cat will bring a mouse it has caught and lay it at your feet so each morning I bring you a poem that I've written when I woke up in the night as my tribute to your... -
The Distant Dead Heather Young 9780857308146
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55A body burns in the desert... Does the boy who found it know more than it seems? Sal Prentiss, orphaned and burdened with a terrible secret, just wants a place to belong. Sal lives with his uncles on... -
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Cat Poems by Elizabeth Bishop 9781788161732 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $2.54You Know How a Cat will bring a mouse it has caught and lay it at your feet so each morning I bring you a poem that I've written when I woke up in the night as my tribute to your... -
A Commonplace Book of Pentastichs: Poetry by Hayden Carruth 9780811213868
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $19.84James Laughlin (1914-97) was a poet of distinction as well as the founding publisher of New Directions. A Commonplace Book of Pentastichs, the last book of his own that he helped to prepare, is a... -
Christmas Poems by Albert M. Hayes 9780811218085
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $10.89Christmas Poems is a pleasing and diverse selection of classic holiday poems that goes all the way back to an eclogue of Virgil, moves along to a wide range of authors such as Chaucer, Herbert,... -
Whereso by Karen Volkman 9781942683087
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $13.67Known for the transcendent, abstractionist poems of Nomina, Volkman's newest collection returns to tangible experiences of the body-its range of expressivity and physical movement in space. Where is... -
Love Poems of Catullus by Gaius Valerius Catullus 9780811237499
RRP: $14.84Booksplease Price: $11.26Catullus was undoubtedly one of the most intimate, witty, vivid, and tender poets of antiquity. Perhaps his greatest gift was his ability to truthfully reveal the fleeting instants of his bare... -
Rayfish by Mary Hickman 9781632430311
RRP: $23.16Booksplease Price: $17.32Mary Hickman's James Laughlin Award-winning second book, Rayfish, masterfully adopts and synthesizes the genre conventions of lyric poetry, nonfiction, and criticism, and extends the possibilities of... -
Nomina by Karen Volkman 9781934414064
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $13.35Karen Volkman's first book, Crash's Law, was a National Poetry Series selection, published by W.W. Norton in 1996. Her second book, Spar, received the Iowa Poetry Prize and the 2002 James Laughlin... -
Selected Poems by Thomas Merton
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $12.33Poet, Trappist monk, religious philosopher, translator, social critic: the late Thomas Merton was all these things. This classic selection from his great body of poetry affords a comprehensive view... -
That Was Now, This Is Then: Poems by Vijay Seshadri 9781644450741
RRP: $20.64Booksplease Price: $12.76No one blends ironic intelligence, emotional frankness, radical awareness, and intricate humor the way Vijay Seshadri does. His fourth collection takes on the paradoxes of time and space,... -
That Was Now, This Is Then: Poems by Vijay Seshadri
RRP: $30.96Booksplease Price: $19.47No one blends ironic intelligence, emotional frankness, radical self-awareness, and complex humor the way Vijay Seshadri does. In this, his fourth collection, he affirms his place as one of America's... -
Purity of Aim: The Book Jacket Designs of Alvin Lustig Ned Drew 9781933360485
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.92This concise overview of the work of designer Alvin Lustig (1915-55) focuses on his book covers, vehicles for his bold graphic experimentation. Here is a colorful and well-researched... -
The Cantos of Ezra Pound by Ezra Pound 9780811213264
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $22.06Delmore Schwartz said about The Cantos: "They are one of the touchstones of modern poetry." William Carlos WIlliams said "[Pound] discloses history by its odor, by the feel of it-in the words; fuses... -
Brother by Matthew Dickman
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.91A dual-authored volume of poems from the multi-award winning Dickman twins - leading voices in America's outstanding generation of younger poets.Although the brothers extol differing inspirations... -
Selected Poems of Ezra Pound by Ezra Pound 9780811201629
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.88The verse and criticism which he produced during the early years of the twentieth century very largely determined the directions of creative writing in our time; virtually every major poet in England... -
Life Before Us by Romain Gary
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.93Momo has been one of the ever-changing ragbag of whores' children at Madame Rosa's boarding house in Paris ever since he can remember. But when the check that pays for his keep no longer arrives and... -
Shakespeare and Company by Sylvia Beach 9780803260979
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $18.31"Miss Beach's book is intimate, not scholarly, and thus full of interesting information. Her reminiscences are literally an index of everybody in the twenties, and she knew them all."-Janet Flanner,... -
Letter to the Americans Jean Cocteau 9780811231596
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.93In 1949, Jean Cocteau spent twenty days in New York, and began composing on the plane ride home this essay filled with the vivid impressions of his trip. With his unmistakable prose and graceful wit,... -
Rue Kathryn Nuernberger 9781942683971
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.39One of Big Other's "Most Anticipated Small Press Books of 2020" In this fiercely feminist ecopoetic collection, Kathryn Nuernberger reclaims love and resilience in an age of cruelty. As the... -
Look Out: A Selection of Writings by Gary Snyder 9780811215251
RRP: $14.84Booksplease Price: $12.69Beginning with the publication of The Back Country in 1968, Gary Snyder's long-cherished association with New Directions continued through the publication of his poetry books: the Pulitzer... -
Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine 9780811216548
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.89Celine's masterpiece-colloquial, polemic, hyper realistic-boils over with bitter humor and revulsion at society's idiocy and hypocrisy: Journey to the End of the Night is a literary symphony of... -
The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas: The Original Edition by Dylan Thomas 9780811218818
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.88The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas contains poems that Thomas personally decided best represented his work. A year before its publication Thomas died from swelling of the brain triggered by... -
What Narcissism Means to Me Tony Hoagland 9781852246891
RRP: $15.48Booksplease Price: $11.15Tony Hoagland's zany poems poke and provoke at the same time as they entertain and delight. He was American poetry's hilarious 'high priest of irony', a wisecracker and a risktaker whose disarming... -
Vexations by Annelyse Gelman 9780226826110
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $17.12A mother and daughter journey together through a strange speculative world in this experimental book-length poem. Annelyse Gelman's book-length poem Vexations is a surreal, glitchy meditation on...