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Will Alexander

Will Alexander
Guillaume Apollinaire

Guillaume Apollinaire
Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac
Giuseppe Berto

Giuseppe Berto
Wolfgang Borchert

Wolfgang Borchert
Mikhail Bulgakov

Mikhail Bulgakov
Michal Choromanski

Michal Choromanski
Inger Christensen

Inger Christensen
Jean Cocteau

Jean Cocteau
Edouard Dujardin

Edouard Dujardin
Caradoc Evans

Caradoc Evans
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
William Gerhardie

William Gerhardie
Yvan Goll

Yvan Goll
John Guare

John Guare
Peter Handke

Peter Handke
Edwin Honig

Edwin Honig
Tony Kushner

Tony Kushner
D. H.  Lawrence

D. H.  Lawrence
Enrique Lihn

Enrique Lihn
Michael McClure

Michael McClure
Carson McCullers

Carson McCullers
Terrence McNally

Terrence McNally
Henry Miller

Henry Miller
Yukio Mishima

Yukio Mishima
Raymond Queneau

Raymond Queneau
Lou Reed

Lou Reed
István Örkény

István Örkény
William Saroyan

William Saroyan
Delmore Schwartz

Delmore Schwartz
John Patrick Shanley

John Patrick Shanley
Italo Svevo

Italo Svevo
Federigo Tozzi

Federigo Tozzi
Nathanael West

Nathanael West
Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams
Lanford Wilson

Lanford Wilson

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."