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New Directions was founded in 1936, when James Laughlin (1914–1997), then a twenty-two-year-old Harvard sophomore, issued the first of the New Directions anthologies. "I asked Ezra Pound for 'career advice,'" James Laughlin recalled. "He had been seeing my poems for months and had ruled them hopeless. He urged me to finish Harvard and then do 'something' useful." In their 80 years of publishing they have put out some fantastic literature. Here is their essential backlist.
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Selected Poetry and Prose (Stéphane Mallarmé)
Selected Poetry and Prose
81
Stéphane Mallarmé
A Bernadette Mayer Reader (Bernadette Mayer)
A Bernadette Mayer Reader
82
Bernadette Mayer
Selected Poems (Eugenio Montale)
Selected Poems
83
Eugenio Montale
Love Poems by Pablo Neruda
Love Poems by Pablo Neruda
84
The Captain's Verses (Pablo Neruda)
The Captain's Verses
85
Pablo Neruda
Selected Writings (Charles Olson)
Selected Writings
86
Charles Olson
Selected Poems (George Oppen)
Selected Poems
87
George Oppen
The Collected Poems (Wilfred Owen)
The Collected Poems
88
Wilfred Owen
Company of Moths (Michael Palmer)
Company of Moths
89
Michael Palmer
Poems and Antipoems (Nicanor Parra)
Poems and Antipoems
90
Nicanor Parra
Selected Poems (Octavio Paz)
Selected Poems
91
Octavio Paz
New Selected Poems and Translations (Ezra Pound)
New Selected Poems and Translations
92
Ezra Pound
Selected Poems (Kenneth Rexroth)
Selected Poems
93
Kenneth Rexroth
Poems From the Book of Hours (Rainer Marie Rilke)
Poems From the Book of Hours
94
Rainer Marie Rilke
A Season in Hell
A Season in Hell
95
Turtle Island (Gary Snyder)
Turtle Island
96
Gary Snyder
Best Poems (Stevie Smith)
Best Poems
97
Stevie Smith
Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas (Dylan Thomas)
Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
98
Dylan Thomas
The Great Enigma (Tomas Tranströmer)
The Great Enigma
99
Tomas Tranströmer
Selected Poems of William Carlos Williams (William Carlos Williams)
Selected Poems of William Carlos Williams
100
William Carlos Williams
Spring and All
Spring and All
101
The Selected Poems of Tu Fu (Tu Fu)
The Selected Poems of Tu Fu
102
Tu Fu
"A" (Louis Zukofsky)
"A"
103
Louis Zukofsky
Seven Nights (Jorge Luis Borges)
Seven Nights
104
Jorge Luis Borges
The Dhammapada (Buddha)
The Dhammapada
105
Buddha
Tribute to Freud (Hilda Doolittle (H.D.))
Tribute to Freud
106
Hilda Doolittle (H.D.)
Poetry as Insurgent Art (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
Poetry as Insurgent Art
107
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
On Booze (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
On Booze
108
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Crack-Up
The Crack-Up
109
My Emily Dickinson (Susan Howe)
My Emily Dickinson
110
Susan Howe
Selected Cronicas (Clarice Lispector)
Selected Cronicas
111
Clarice Lispector
New Seeds of Contemplation
New Seeds of Contemplation
112
The Way of Chuang Tzu
The Way of Chuang Tzu
113
Colossus of Maroussi
Colossus of Maroussi
114
Nikolai Gogol (Vladimir Nabokov)
Nikolai Gogol
115
Vladimir Nabokov
ABC of Reading (Ezra Pound)
ABC of Reading
116
Ezra Pound
George Steiner at the New Yorker (George Steiner)
George Steiner at the New Yorker
117
George Steiner
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog (Dylan Thomas)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog
118
Dylan Thomas
An Elemental Thing (Eliot Weinberger)
An Elemental Thing
119
Eliot Weinberger
Memoirs (Tennessee Willams)
Memoirs
120
Tennessee Willams
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