“Through his condensed, translucent images, Tranströmer gives us fresh access to reality.”
— The Nobel Prize Committee on Tomas Tranströmer
“Through his condensed, translucent images, Tranströmer gives us fresh access to reality.”
— The Nobel Prize Committee on Tomas Tranströmer
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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."
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