New directions in ceramics

Voices in the Evening

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Glass Menagerie

Abandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield comforts herself with recollections of her earlier, life in Blue Mountain when she was pursued by 'gentleman callers'. Her son Tom, a poet with a job in a warehouse, longs for adventure and escape from his mother's suffocating embrace, while Laura, her daughter, has her glass menagerie and her memories.

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Jean-Paul Sartre,Richard Howard,James Wood - Nausea

Sartre's greatest novel ― and existentialism's key text ― now introduced by James Wood.Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogs his every feeling and sensation. His thoughts culminate in a pervasive, overpowering feeling of nausea which “spreads at the bottom of t...

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Three Streets - Yoko Tawada

<p>The always astonishing Yoko Tawada here takes a walk on the supernatural side of the street. In Kollwitzstrasse, as the narrator muses on former East Berlin's new bourgeois health food stores, so popular with wealthy young people, a ghost boy begs her to buy him the old-fashioned sweets he craves. She worries that sugar's still sugar--but why lecture him, since h...

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Adventures In Immediate Irreality

Often called “the Kafka of Romania,” Max Blecher died young but not before creating this incandescent novel.

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Laziness in the Fertile Valley

A portrait of a family of proud layabouts who avoid work and sleep all day by the Egyptian writer often referred to as "the Voltaire of the Nile"

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Season in Hell a The Drunken Boat

A reissue of RimbaudÂ’s highly influential work, with a new preface by Patti Smith and the original 1945 New Directions cover design by Alvin lustig.

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New Directions

A collection of the best art quilt info, including the cream of the crop in terms of beautiful artwork and informative articles. This is not only ins

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Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season

A ravishing new translation of IranÂ’s trailblazing, feminist poet in an indispensable collection

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New Directions in Flanerie

This book distinguishes itself from previous scholarship by offering an inclusive and comprehensive treatment of urban walking from 1800 to the presen

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Flowers of Buffoonery New Directions Publishing Corporation

For the first time in English, Osamu Dazai's hilariously comic and deeply moving prequel to No Longer Human...

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Setting Sun

This powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis was first published by New Directions in 1956.

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Empathy

The groundbreaking poetic work by our “Mondrian in verse” (Susan Barba, Boston Review), now back in print in a newly revised edition with a new pref

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Way of Chuang Tzu

Classic writings from the great Zen master in exquisite versions by Thomas Merton, in a new edition with a preface by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

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Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei

A new expanded edition of the classic study of translation, finally back in print

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Musical Hell

The first book of poems by Pizarnik to be published in its entirety in the U.S., poetry at the edge of impossibility.

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Walks with Walser

A unique and personal portrait of the beloved, legendary Swiss writer, finally in English

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Two-Character Play

A classic play by Tennessee Williams in a definitive, author-approved edition.

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Houseguest

The first collection in English of an endlessly surprising, master storyteller

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Setting Sun

Now in a beautiful gift cloth edition, a masterpiece of postwar Japanese literature

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No Longer Human

Now in a gift cloth edition, No Longer Human ponders profound alienation

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One Hundred Poems from the Chinese

The lyrical world of Chinese poetry in faithful translations by Kenneth Rexroth.

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Night Train

Brevity is the soul of beauty in these tiny masterworks of short short fiction

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Poems from the Book of Hours

One of the most powerful poetry collections of the twentieth century, now in a beautiful new edition.

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Henry Miller on Writing

“A brilliant selection . . . it is in short a voyage of discovery, an adventure and this the log of that voyage in the life of a probing and powerful

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Nox

Anne Carson’s haunting and beautiful Nox is her first book of poetry in five years—a unique, illustrated, accordion-fold-out “book in a box.”

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Selected Writings

A bilingual, illustrated edition of The Selected Writings of Apollinaire, the only representative collection in English translation, with a comprehens

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Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch

In his great triptych "The Millennium," Bosch used oranges and other fruits to symbolize the delights of Paradise.

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These Possible Lives

Brief in the way a razorÂ’s slice is brief, remarkable essays by a peerless stylist

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Spadework for a Palace

A joyful ode—in a single soaring, crazy sentence—to the interconnectedness of great (and mad) minds

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Flowers of Buffoonery

For the first time in English, Osamu Dazai’s hilariously comic and deeply moving prequel to No Longer Human

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Splay Anthem

In a stunning new collection of poems of transport and transcendence, African-American poet Nathaniel Mackey's "asthmatic song of aspiration" scuttles

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Three Streets

Yoko Tawada—winner of the National Book Award—presents three terrific new ghost stories, each named after a street in Berlin

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Microscripts

Now in a gorgeous new paperback edition with full-color illustrations by Maira Kalman, Microscripts is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece.

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Lost Writings

A windfall for every reader: a trove of marvelous impossible-to-find Kafka stories in a masterful new translation by Michael Hofmann

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The Setting Sun, 1. vydání - Osamu Dazai

<p>Now in a beautiful gift cloth edition, a masterpiece of post-war Japanese literature This powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis was first published by New Directions in 1956. Set in the early postwar years, The Setting Sun probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society. The influence of Osamu ...

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His Name was Death

Never before in English, this legendary precursor to eco-fiction turns the coming insect apocalypse on its head A Wall Street Journal Best Science Fi

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Poems of St. John of the Cross

Saint JohnÂ’s poetry of love and joy describes the soulÂ’s passage through dark night to final illumination in mystical union with Absolute Being. The

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On Haiku

Everything you want to know about haiku written by one of the foremost experts in the field and the “finest translator of contemporary Japanese poetr

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Kornel Esti

A great masterpiece never before available in English, Kornél Esti is the wild final book by a Hungarian genius.

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Fierce Green Place

A fearless collection by a trailblazing writer whose poems “represent the people, culture, and topography of the Caribbean in multidimensional, compl

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Francisco

A lost masterpiece of American literature about the creative evolution of a young Black woman in California and her intense relationship with an indie

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For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut

Winner of a PEN Translation Fund Award: A lyrical, supercharged, dizzying collection in a unique bilingual format: like two halves of the walnut, the

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Zen and the Birds of Appetite

Merton, one of the rare Western thinkers able to feel at home in the philosophies of the East, made the wisdom of Asia available to Westerners.

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Three Tragedies

Here in the authorized translation by James Graham-Luján and Richard L. O’Connell, with an illuminating biographical introduction by the poet’s bro

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That Smell and Notes from Prison

That Smell is Sonallah IbrahimÂ’s modernist masterpiece and one of the most influential Arabic novels. Composed in the wake of a five-year prison sent

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Gorgeous Nothings

The Gorgeous Nothings is a pivotal book: the first full-color publication of Emily DickinsonÂ’s complete envelope writings in facsimile from her visua

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Self-Portraits

Bringing together novelist Osamu Dazai's best autobiographical shorts in a single, slim volume, Self-Portraits shows the legendary writer at his best

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Curves to the Apple

Three pivotal works conceived by the avant-garde poet as a trilogy and now together in one volume at last.

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Some Trick

Hailed a “Best Book of the Year” by NPR, Publishers Weekly, Vulture, and the New York Public Library, Some Trick is now in paperback Finalist for th

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Bernadette Mayer Reader

“She writes as if Everything were still possible in the work of a lifetime at the coincidence of all the turvy moments. Better that she’s read witho

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100 Poems from the Japanese

It is remarkable that any Westerner—even so fine a poet as Kenneth Rexroth—could have captured in translation so much of the subtle essence of class

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The Setting Sun, 1. vydání - Osamu Dazai

<p>Set in the early postwar years, it probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society. Ozamu Dazai died, a suicide, in 1948. But the influence of his book has made people of the setting sun a permanent part of the Japanese language, and his heroine, Kazuko, a young aristocrat who deliberately abandons her class, ...

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Early Light - Osamu Dazai

<p>Early Light offers three very different aspects of Osamu Dazai's genius: the title story relates his misadventures as a drinker and a family man in the terrible fire bombings of Tokyo at the end of WWII. Having lost their own home, he and his wife flee with a new baby boy and their little girl to relatives in Kofu, only to be bombed out anew. "Everything's g...

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No Longer Human, 1. vydání - Osamu Dazai

<p>The poignant and fascinating story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and the impact of Western ideas.</p> <p>Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understandin...

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No Longer Human, 1. vydání - Osamu Dazai

<p>Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being. Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. His attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in e...

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New Directions in Sock Knitting

New Directions in Sock Knitting is a smorgasbord of 18 knitted sock patterns from top designers that's a feast for sock knitters. With 18 patterns tha

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New Directions in Genocide Research

This edited book seeks to capture the range of new approaches, theories and case studies in the field of genocide studies.

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New Directions in Sustainable Design

This book brings together new and emerging perspectives on sustainability. Combining a series of well know authors in contemporary philosophy with est

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New Directions in Garden Tourism

Following on from the success of Garden Tourism, this new book provides an update on the statistics and growth of the global phenomenon of garden visi

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