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Will Alexander

Will Alexander
Martin Brady

Martin Brady
John Carswell

John Carswell
Inger Christensen

Inger Christensen
Alain Danielou

Alain Danielou
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Peter France

Peter France
Nikolai Gogol

Nikolai Gogol
Irving Howe

Irving Howe
Susan Howe

Susan Howe
B.S. Johnson

B.S. Johnson
John Keene

John Keene
Lincoln Kirstein

Lincoln Kirstein
Nicole Krauss

Nicole Krauss
Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton
Mu Xin

Mu Xin
James Munves

James Munves
Tim Parks

Tim Parks
Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound
Arthur Rimbaud

Arthur Rimbaud
Marian Schwartz

Marian Schwartz
Nathaniel Tarn

Nathaniel Tarn
Tu Fu

Tu Fu
Enrique Vila-Matas

Enrique Vila-Matas
Robert Penn Warren

Robert Penn Warren
Alyson Waters

Alyson Waters
Edmund Wilson

Edmund Wilson
Louis Zukofsky

Louis Zukofsky

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."