New Directions 51

Sui generis now among commercial trade publishers, New Directions’ annual roundup is just what this sort of non-textbook anthology ought to be…

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New Directions 51

Fiction

New Directions in Prose and Poetry is an annual anthology featuring new and established writers from around the world. Of unusual interest in ND51 are a previously untranslated story, “A Man Sixty,” by Shusaku Endo (Japan); a group of recently discovered poems by Delmore Schwartz; a comic play, “The Consolations of Matrimony,’ by Ezra Pound, writing as Oge Terrence O’Cullough; and “Two Americans,” a short story by H. D. privately printed in 1930. Short stories: “Beds,” by Martin Bax (Great Britain); “Saving the Boat People,” by Joe David Bellamy; “Don’t Save Your Kisses,” by Macun Bocock; “The Back Way to Fantasyland,” by Alan M. Brown; ’Old Man Finds Is What Was Lost,’ by James B. Hall; and “The Hit,’ by Catherine Petroski, Poetry: “Biology,” by John Allman; “Overhang,” by Philippe Denis (France); Mnemogasoline,” by Andrei Codrescu: “Children of the Monosyllable,” by Clayton Eshleman; “A Patient of Dr. Rycroft’s,” by Gavin Ewart (Great Britain); “Near the Pacific, Earth Dreams,” by Edwin Honig; “L’Abécédrien de la Lubricité,” by J. Laughlin; “Unheard of Poems by Ausonius,” by Thomas Parkinson; selections from the work of Richard M. Bomstein, George Evans, Robert Glück, Vittorio Sereni (Italy), and James L. Weil.

Paperback(published Nov, 01 1987)

ISBN
9780811210348
Price US
11.95

Clothbound(published Nov, 01 1987)

ISBN
9780811210331

Sui generis now among commercial trade publishers, New Directions’ annual roundup is just what this sort of non-textbook anthology ought to be…

Kirkus Reviews