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Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 73
Publisher
New Directions Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c1954
Language
English
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 66
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
1957
Language
English
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 272
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
1969, c1948
Language
English
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume NDP648
Publisher
New Directions Books
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
Fiercely moving, the two long narrative poems of Martin & Meditations on the South Valley revolve around the semi-autobiographical figure of Martin, a mestizo or 'detribalized Apache.' Abandoned as a child and a long time on the hard path to building his own family, Martin at last finds his home in the stubborn and beautiful world of the barrio. Jimmy Santiago Baca 'writes with unconcealed passion, ' Denise Levertov states in her introduction, 'but...
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 829
Publisher
New Directions Pub
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
7) Nod house
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1216
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1287
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
9) Oreo
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1309
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Oreo, a biracial black girl from Philadelphia, searches for her Jewish father in New York City, navigating the labyrinth of sound studios, brothels, and subway tunnels of Manhattan in a journey of self-discovery.
10) Be with
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1408
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2018]
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...
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1423
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
This collection of thirteen doctor stories, six poems on medical matters, and a selection from The Autobiography "can help many others take a knowing look at the medical profession"
12) Dog symphony
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1415
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Boris Leonidovich, a North American professor who specializes in the history of prison architecture, has been invited to Buenos Aires for an academic conference. He's planning to present a paper on Moscow's feared Butyrka prison, but most of all he's looking forward to seeing his enigmatic, fiercely intelligent colleague (and sometime lover) Ana again. As soon as Boris arrives, however, he encounters obstacle after unlikely obstacle: he can't get...
13) The dry heart
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume NDP1448
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Finally back in print, a frighteningly lucid feminist horror story about marriage The Dry Heart begins and ends with the matter-of-fact pronouncement, 'I shot him between the eyes.' Everything in between is a plunge into the chilly waters of loneliness, desperation, and bitterness, and as the tale proceeds, the narrator's murder of her flighty husband takes on a certain logical inevitability. In this powerful novella, Natalia Ginzburg's writing is...
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1411
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Is me--Bob. Bob Marley." Reincarnated as homeless Fall-down man, Bob Marley sleeps in a clock tower built on the site of a lynching in Half Way Tree, Kingston. The ghosts of Marcus Garvey and King Edward VII are there too, drinking whiskey and playing solitaire. No one sees that Fall-down is Bob Marley, no one but his long-ago love, the deaf woman, Leenah, and, in the way of this otherworldly book, when Bob steps into the street each day, five years...
16) The factory
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1460
Publisher
New York
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In an unnamed Japanese city, three seemingly normal and unrelated characters find work at a sprawling industrial factory. They each focus intently on their specific jobs: one studies moss, one shreds paper, and the other proofreads incomprehensible documents. Life in the factory has its own logic and momentum, and, eventually, the factory slowly expands and begins to take over everything, enveloping these poor workers. The very margins of reality...
Author
Series
Publisher
New Directions Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Fairy-tale atmospheres and complex narratives are a hallmark of the fiction of Anne Serre, represented here by three radically heterodox novellas. The Fool "may have stepped out of a tarot pack: I came across this little figure rather late in life. Not being familiar with playing cards, still less with the tarot, I was a bit uncomfortable when I first set eyes on him. I believe in magic figures and distrust them-a figure observing you can turn the...
18) Malina
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1140
Publisher
New Directions Book
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Now a New Directions book, the legendary novel that is 'equal to the best of Virginia Woolf and Samuel Beckett' (New York Times Book Review) Malina invites the reader on a linguistic journey, into a world that stretches the very limits of language with Wittgensteinian zeal and Joycean inventiveness, where Ingeborg Bachmann ventriloquizes, and in the process demolishes Proust, Musil, and Balzac, and yet filters everything through her own utterly singular...
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1467
Publisher
New Directions Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Norma Jeane Baker of Troy is a meditation on the destabilizing and destructive power of beauty, drawing together Helen of Troy and Marilyn Monroe, twin avatars of female fascination separated by millennia but united in mythopoeic force. Norma Jeane Baker was staged in the spring of 2019 at The Shed's Griffin Theater in New York, starring actor Ben Whishaw and soprano Renée Fleming and directed by Katie Mitchell." --
20) The hole
Author
Series
Publisher
New Directions Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Asa's husband is transferring jobs, and his new office is located near his family's home in the countryside. During an exceptionally hot summer, the young married couple move in, and Asa does her best to quickly adjust to their new rural lives, to their remoteness, to the constant presence of her in-laws and the incessant buzz of cicadas. While her husband is consumed with his job, Asa is left to explore her surroundings on her own: she makes trips...
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