New directions 1980 (32 risultati)

Paper Back. Condizione: Good.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: USED Good.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Used Good. Front and back covers have light wear to edges and corners. Spine intact, some wear. Binding is intact. Pages are generally clean with minor edge or corner wear. Firefly sells new and used books through our store front. We try to add a detailed description to as many titles as possible. If you have questions regarding this title, please contact us. Photos available on request.…

paperback. Condizione: Very Good. New Directions, NY, c.1980, trade paperbk., 90pp., VG $.

Paperback or Softback. Condizione: New. Zero Hour and Other Documentary Poems. Book.

Paperback or Softback. Condizione: New. Deep Song and Other Prose. Book.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. This book shows some minor signs of wear, but no tears, on either the binding or the paper.

Paperback or Softback. Condizione: New. How German Is It. Book.

Paperback or Softback. Condizione: New. Louis-Ferdinand Celine. Book.

Paperback or Softback. Condizione: New. Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Sound binding; Clean, sturdy boards; Pages free of markings; Un-clipped dust jacket gently edge-worn/rubbed; Jacket housed in protective mylar to ensure further preservation; An excellent copy.

First edition, first printing Fine bright pictorial stiff wraps with strong spine and clean text. Gift quality.

First edition Includes work by Walter Abish, Lawrence Ferlinghetti on Nicanor Parra, John Taggard and others. Near fine bright softcover with strong square spine and clean text. Another poet's neat signature to opening flyleaf which bothers none of the text.

First edition Fine and bright blue boards with gilt lettering in near fine dustjacket with crisp bright text throughout. Another poet's signature to opening flyleaf which bothers none of the text.

Octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Zero Hour and Other Documentary Poemsbrings together in English translation eight of the longer poems by Nicaragua's impassioned Marxist priest, Ernesto Cardenal, described in theTimes Literary Supplementas 'the outstanding socially committed poet of his generation in Spanish America.' His work, like Pablo Neruda's, is unabashedly political; like Ezra Pound's, his poems demonstrate history on an epic scale--but the voice is all his own and speaks from the heart of a land sunk for generations in poverty, oppression, and turmoil. As both activist and contemplative, Cardenal maintained strong ties with the Sandinist guerillas while at the same time living a form of primitive Christianity at his religious settlement of Our Lady of Solentiname on an island in Lake Nicaragua. In late 1977, amid increasing civil violence, the Nicaraguan National Guard utterly destroyed the Solentiname community, and Cardenal fled to neighboring Costa Rica, where he continued his efforts on behalf of the revolutionary movement. With the final collapse of the Somoza dictatorship in 1979, he returned to Nicaragua as his country's new Minister of Culture. Spanning a quarter century, the poems inZero Hourconstitute a vivid record of continuous struggle against flagrant exploitation and brutal indifference to common humanity.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In Chinese, Tao means simply way or path, and the mysticism of the early Taoists grew out of the longing and search for union with an eternal 'Way.' To attune oneself to the rhythms of nature rather than to conform to the artificialities of man-made institutions (embodied in the rigid hierarchies of orthodox Confucianism) became the goal of Taoist masters such as Chuang-tzü, who refused high office so that he could, like the turtle, 'drag his tail in the mud.' As the British authority on early Chinese religion, D. Howard Smith, expresses it in his lucid introduction toThe Wisdom of the Taoists: 'To seek and find that mysterious principle, to discover it within one's inmost being, to observe its workings in the great universe outside, and to become utterly engulfed in its serenity and quietude came to be the supreme goal of the Taoist mystics.' In presenting the wide spectrum of Taoist thought and experience, Professor Smith has newly translated excerpts from a variety of mystical writings. He concentrates, however, on the two basic sources of Taoism, the humorous and satirical stories of Chuang-tzu (who lived in the fourth century B. C. in Honan) and the Tao-Tê-Ching, a classic of mysticism attributed to Lao-tzü. Eventually, Taoism broadened into a magical folk religion, but the dedication to the inward path, the emptying of self, and the search for the nameless principle that could be apprehended only in quiet periods of ecstatic vision contributed to the Chinese form of Buddhism known as Ch'an--which we in the West know better by its Japanese name of Zen.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A collection of prose writing and lectures from the great Spanish poet.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - It is a warm June morning in the West End of St. Louis in the mid-thirties--a lovely Sunday for a picnic at Creve Coeur Lake. But Dorothea, one of Tennessee Williams's most engaging 'marginally youthful,' forever hopeful Southern belles, is home waiting for a phone call from the principal of the high school where she teaches civics--the man she expects to fulfill her deferred dreams of romance and matrimony. Williams's unerring dialogue reveals each of the four characters ofA Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeurwith precision and clarity: Dorothea, who does even her 'setting-up exercises' with poignant flutters; Bodey, her German roommate, who wants to pair Dotty with her beer-drinking twin, Buddy, thereby assuring nieces, nephews, and a family for both herself and Dotty; Helena, a fellow teacher, with the 'eyes of a predatory bird,' who would like to 'rescue' Dotty from her vulgar, common surroundings and substitute an elegant but sterile spinster life; and Miss Gluck, a newly orphaned and distraught neighbor, whom Bodey comforts with coffee and crullers while Helena mocks them both. Focusing on one morning and one encounter of four women, Williams once again skillfully explores, with comic irony and great tenderness, the meaning of loneliness, the need for human connection, as well as the inevitable compromises one must make to get through 'the long run of life.'.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Michael McClure'sJosephine: The Mouse Singer, a play in verse, is based on a story of Franz Kafka's, 'Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk.' Kafka and McClure And yet the combination is bound to work, for in essence both writers in their different ways ponder the trials of the artist in an arbitrary universe. McClure's exuberant, inspired adaptation, in fact, reminds us of the bizarre whimseys Kafka's tales were originally intended to be. The first New York production ofJosephine: The Mouse Singer, in November 1978 at the WPA Theatre, receivedThe Village Voice's prestigious Obie award for the Best Play of the Year. 'As so often happens Off-Off-Broadway,' theVoice's citation reads. 'it is a play that was performed for only three weekends, but it is a play of extraordinary wit and grace and wisdom, at once utterly charming and almost unbearably painful, a play which tells us that the relationship between artists and their society is often intolerable, but which also tells us that for a society to endure without its artists is impossible.'.…

hardcover. Condizione: Good. Includes dust jacket. Signed. First Edition. Signed on title page. Dj with mild wear, subtle yellowing that's more apparent inside and on edges, sticker shadow on back. Pages clean and binding sound.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Nearly a half-century after his death, Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894-1961) remains tremendously respected for the innovative artistry of his fiction yet despised for his supposed collaborationist activities during the Second World War. Merlin Thomas's critical biography of the late French novelist seeks neither to apologize nor to defend but rather to understand the complex life and writings of the great French writer. Included are extensive passages from Céline's work with Thomas's own translations, a special chapter devoted to a discussion of Céline's use of language, and a brief biographical sketch with a discussion of the relationship between the subject's life and fictional works. 'All sorts of labels have been attached to Céline,' Thomas remarks. 'What he was in the broadest sense, was a poet. He was also a witness of our century.'.…

hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Signed / Inscribed by author on title page: "To Mollie." Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good Minus Mylar protected dust jacket. Besides signature . inscription, free of any markings and no writings inside. Clear text. Minor shelf-wear. Rip on bottom and top of front cover. Mild age tanning. For any additional information or pictures, please inquire.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A gathering of Ezra Pound's writing, criticism, and reviews on art.

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Fifth printing SIGNED: Fine bright stiff wraps with excellent spine and crisp text throughout. Inscribed by the poet on the full title page to the owner whose small attractive book label is on the inside cover.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In 1944, New Directions brought out Thomas Merton's first book of verse. By the time of his tragic, untimely death in 1968, Father Louis (as he was known at the Trappist monastery where he lived for twenty-seven years) had published upwards of fifty books and pamphlets, including several more collections of poetry. All of these poems have been assembled in a single, definitive volume (first published by New Directions in 1977) which includes much additional unpublished or uncollected material drawn from the archive of the Merton Studies Center at Bellarmine College in Louisville, Kentucky, or supplied by the poet's friends and associates. Brought together inThe Collected Poems of Thomas Mertonare:Early Poems(1940-42, published posthumously in 1971),Thirty Poems(1944),A Man in the Divided Sea(1946),Figures for an Apocalypse(1947),The Tear of the Blind Lions(1949),The Strange Islands(1957),Original Child Bomb(1962),Emblems of a Season of Fun(1963),Cables to Ace(1968), andThe Geography of Lograire(completed in 1968 and published posthumously). These are followed bySensation Time at the Home and Other New Poems, a book which Merton completed shortly before his death. There are also sections of uncollected poems, humorous verse, poems written in French, with some English translations, Merton's translations of poetry from various languages, drafts and fragments, and a selection of concrete poems. With the availability ofThe Collected Poems of Thomas Mertonas a New Directions paperbook, an ever wider audience may more fully appreciate the impressive range of the poet's technique, the scope of his concerns, and the humaneness of his vision.…

Condizione: Good. Dust Jacket. Very Good. Minor wear. Text plate laid in. Price unclipped. (Dust Jacket only. Book not included).

Cloth. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First edition. Two smart first US editions of these collections of poetry from Italian writer Eugenio Montale. Two volumes. First US edition. Written by Eugenio Montale, an Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator, who was the recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature and is considered one of the finest literary figures of the twentieth century. This set contains: New Poems, 1976. A selection of English translations of poetry from Satura (1971) and Diario del '71 e del '72, the author's most recent collections of verse. It Depends: A Poet's Notebook, 1980. Appearing in Italy during the writer's eighty-second year, this work provides shrewd observations of the contemporary literary scene as well as the everyday. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor wear and light fading to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrappers are very smart with minor wear and the odd small mark. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine. None (illustratore). book.…

Cloth. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good Indeed. First edition. An excellent set of novels and short-story collections by James Purdy, including a signed new edition of 'Color of Darkness'. Including one novel and six short-story/novella collections by American novelist and poet, James Purdy. With two editions of 'Children is All'.Author's signature to the title page of 'Color of Darkness & Malcolm'.From his debut in 1956, Purdy published over a dozen novels, and many collections of poetry, short stories, and plays, earning praise from writers such as Edith Sitwell, Lillian Hellman and Dorothy Parker.The entirety of this set comprises the following of his works:Color of Darkness: Eleven Stories and a Novella (1956) - First edition, first printing Children is All (1961) - First editing, first printing Cabot Wright Begins (1964) - First edition, first printing Eustace Chisholm and the Works (1967) - First edition, first printing Children is All (1971) - First ND Paperbook edition Color of Darkness & Malcolm (1974) - Signed by the author to the title page. First thus of 'Color of Darkness' together with Purdy's work 'Malcolm'. Dream Palace: Three Novels (1980) - Uncorrected proof copy of this new edition, containing 'Malcolm', 'The Nephew' and '63: Dream Palace'. 'Colour of Darkness' (1974), 'Children Is All' (1971) and 'Dream Palace' bound in the publisher's wraps. Remaining volumes bound in the original quarter cloth, with the original unclipped dust wrappers. Externally, very smart. With light shelf to the cloth-bound volumes and mild edge wear to the wraps of 'Color of Darkness'. Dust wrappers are also very smart, with mild edge wear and sunning to the spines to 'Cabot Wright Begins' and 'Children Is All'. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Near Fine. None (illustratore). book.…