New Directions in Prose and Poetry 17 (v. 17)

1961 softcover; 350 pages. Presumed First. Like new, with no marks or writing in book. Some wrinkling to spine appears more a binder's error than a condition issue. Full of heavy hitters, with lots of Beat contributors (Kerouac, Bob Kaufman, Thomas Merton, Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, etc.) Contents:Leoun / Jean Cocteau ; translated by Alan Neame -- Gogol's wife / Tommaso Landolfi ; translated by Wayland Young -- A sequence [poem] ; A note on the work of the imagination / Denise Levertov -- The grandmother / John Hawkes -- Wisdom in emptiness : a dialogue / by Daisetz T. Suzuki and Thomas Merton -- Knowledge and innocence / by Daisetz T. Suzuki -- The recovery of paradise / by Thomas Merton -- Final remarks / by Daisetz T. Suzuki -- Drake in the southern sea / Ernesto Cardenal ; translated by Thomas Merton -- The jaguar myth & other poems. The jaguar myth ; Cup with a jaguar for the drinkng of health ; The birth of the sun ; The despairing man draws a serpent ; The secret of the burning stars ; Faces of girls looking at themselves in the river ; Meditation before an ancient poem ; Pain is an eagle clinging to your name ; The eye is a dog howling in the distance ; Nahoa urn, for a woman ; Urn with a political profile ; The world is a round earthenware plate ; Lament of a maiden for the warrior's death ; Written next to a blue flower / Pablo Antonio Cuadra ; translated, with a note on the poet, by Thomas Merton -- Six poems. Cocoa tree ; The weathercock on the cathedral of Quito ; A man from Ecuador beneath the Eiffel Tower ; Radicals ; The mirror's mission ; Notes of a parachute jumper / Jorge Carrera Andrade ; translated, with a note on the poet, by Thomas Merton -- An airplane over the house / Martin Walser ; translated by Elisabeth Mann Borgese -- Backyard / by Evans C. Chigounis -- Three poems. Euphoria ; Hairy man ; Cro-magnons / Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- Seven prose poems. Snails ; Rain ; Berries ; The quart box ; The orange ; The turning of the seasons ; Notes for a shell / Francis Ponge ; translated, with a note on the poet, by Richard R. Strawn -- The lion for real / Allen Ginsberg -- The sins of men / Edward Dahlberg -- To a lawn mower / Robert Lowry -- An interview with Ezra Pound / D.G. Bridson -- Autumn / Charles Tomlinson -- Sermon ; Home by dark / James Purdy -- Poems. Ten jargonelles from the herbalist's notebook ; The gastronaut ; Six sit-ins agin out 'n out s-its / Jonathan Williams -- Some stories of cronopios and famas. Normal behaviour of the famas ; Gaiety of the cronopio ; Business ; Philanthropy ; The song of the cronopios ; Improprieties in the public services / Julio Cortazar ; translated, with a note on the author, by Paul Blackburn -- Another day another dollar / H. Shelby, Jr. -- In the event of / by James Purdy -- Hawk Lawler : chorus / Bob Kaufman -- Three poems. Session tongues ; Benediction ; Camus, I want to know / Bob Kaufman -- Clin slot wipe and more tomorrow / Peter Olwyler -- Poems. More old angel midnight ; Four poems from San Francisco blues / Jack Kerouac -- The American idiom / William Carlos Williams -- William Carlos Williams' "Paterson" : the search for the redeeming language : a personal epic in five parts / John C. Thirlwall -- The peacock beyond garden walls / by James Purdy -- Non-survivability plus / George G. Kirstein -- The decline of the humanities, or, Where's the bloody horse / Georg Mann -- Greece / Gregory Corso -- Are these our children / J.F. Powers -- Kore ; The rain / by Robert Creeley -- End of the cat as a man / by Evans C. Chigounis.

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Publisher: New Directions

Year: 1961

Type: New

Binding: Softcover

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