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Lucas Klein

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Lucas Klein radio DJ, union organizer, writer, translator, and editor graduated Middlebury College (BA) and Yale University (PhD), and is Assistant Professor in the dept. of Chinese, Translation & Linguistics at City University of Hong Kong. Klein recently translated Xi Chuan's Notes On the Mosquito Selected Poems.

 

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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."