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Tom Clark

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Contemporary American poet, reviewer and biographer

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Robert Creeley and the Genius of the American Common Place

Robert Creeley and the Genius of the American Common Place

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“Evening Train, Denise Levertov's twenty-first collection, carries the extended pilgrimage of her poetry into stirring new territory... Luminous, epiphanic... Evening Train leaves us floating on the mysterious lightness...of Levertov's ecstatic faith...”

— Tom Clark, San Francisco Chronicle on Denise Levertov's Evening Train

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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."