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Blue Pearl by Harrison Lesley
Category: Poetry | Series: New Directions Poetry Pamphlets Ser.
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 sense o ...Show more
Dirty Poem by Ferreira Gullar
Category: Poetry | Series: New Directions Poetry Pamphlets
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 literature. Sc ...Show more
Sea, Land, Shadow by Shiraishi, Kazuko, Tsumura, Yumiko
Category: Poetry | Series: New Directions Poetry Pamphlets Ser.
the people, the boats completely gone with the tsunami / tonight you would not be able to sleep --from Sea, Land, Shadow Sea, 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 Don ...Show more
Two American Scenes by Lydia Davis & Eliot Weinberger
Category: Poetry | Series: New Directions Poetry Pamphlets Ser.
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 innumerabl ...Show more
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