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Series
New Directions paperbook volume 975
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
As through a crack in the wall, By Night in Chile's single night-long rant provides a terrifying, clandestine view of the strange bedfellows of church and state in Chile. This wild, eerily compact novel-Roberto Bolaño's first work available in English-recounts the tale of a poor boy who wanted to be a poet, but ends up a half-hearted Jesuit priest and conservative literary critic, a sort of lapdog to the rich and powerful cultural elite, in whose...
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume NDP988
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"In the seventy-three poems collected here Muriel Spark works in open forms as well as villanelles, rondels, epigrams, and even the tour de force of a twenty-one page ballad."--Jacket
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1127
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First American paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
"Pluriverse: New and Selected Poems is the most extensive compilation of poems in English by Ernesto Cardenal. Follow Cardenal's poetic development across six decades, from the early exterioristno poems and romantic epigrams of the early 1950s, to the increasingly spiritually and politically engaged verse he wrote as priest and activist - including his classic revolutionary documentary poem "Zero Hour" - to the shorter victory and ecology poems and...
50) The rose tattoo
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1172
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume NDP1251
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"On a train to Berlin in late 1930, William Bradshaw locks eyes with Arthur Norris, an irresistibly comical fellow Englishman wearing a rather obvious wig and nervous about producing his passport at the frontier. So begins a friendship conducted in the seedier quarters of the city, where Norris runs a dubious import-export business and lives in excited fear of his bullying secretary, his creditors, and his dominatrix girlfriend, Anni. As the worldwide...
54) Blue Fasa
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1304
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Nathaniel Mackey's sixth collection of poems, Blue Fasa, carries forward what the New Yorker has described as the "mythological conception" and "descriptive daring" of his two intertwined serial poems. A long song that's one and more than one, this collection takes its title from two related black musical traditions, a West African griot epic as told by the Fasa, a clan in ancient Ghana, and trumpeter Kenny Dorham's hard bop classic "Blue Bossa,"...
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1301
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A high-octane paranoia deranges a writer and fuels a dangerous plan to return home to El Salvador.
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume NDP1384
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Fleur Jaeggy is often noted for her terse and telegraphic style, which somehow brews up a profound paradox that seems bent on haunting the reader: despite a sort of zero-at-the-bone baseline, her fiction is weirdly also incredibly moving. How does she do it? No one knows. But here, in her newest collection, I Am the Brother of XX, she does it again. Like a magician or a master criminal, who can say how she gets away with it, but whether the stories...
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume NDP1382
Pub. Date
2017.
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....
60) Be with
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1408
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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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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