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Ahmed Ali

Ahmed Ali
Esther Allen

Esther Allen
Wayne Andrews

Wayne Andrews
Homero Aridjis

Homero Aridjis
Willis Barnstone

Willis Barnstone

Lee Bartlett
Jacques Barzun

Jacques Barzun
Bei Dao

Bei Dao
Robert Boyers

Robert Boyers
Kamau Brathwaite

Kamau Brathwaite
Christine Brooke-Rose

Christine Brooke-Rose
Frederick Busch

Frederick Busch
Anne Carson

Anne Carson
Mircea Cartarescu

Mircea Cartarescu
Tom Clark

Tom Clark
Robert Coles

Robert Coles
Robert Creeley

Robert Creeley
Robyn Creswell

Robyn Creswell
Alain Danielou

Alain Danielou
Guy Davenport

Guy Davenport
Hilda Doolittle (H.D.)

Hilda Doolittle (H.D.)
Richard Eberhart

Richard Eberhart
William Empson

William Empson
Thalia Field

Thalia Field
Peter France

Peter France
Christine Froula

Christine Froula
Forrest Gander

Forrest Gander

Tom Geddes

Van C. Gessel
Nikolai Gogol

Nikolai Gogol
Allen Grossman

Allen Grossman
Lars Gustafsson

Lars Gustafsson

Albert Hayes
Samuel Hazo

Samuel Hazo
Takashi Hiraide

Takashi Hiraide
Paul Hoover

Paul Hoover
Michael Hulse

Michael Hulse

Bill Johnston
Francis R. Jones

Francis R. Jones
Gabriel Josipovici

Gabriel Josipovici

Toming Jun Liu
Thomas Keith

Thomas Keith
Lucas Klein

Lucas Klein
P. Lal

P. Lal

Harry Levin
Alfred MacAdam

Alfred MacAdam
Bonnie S. MacDougall

Bonnie S. MacDougall
Nathaniel Mackey

Nathaniel Mackey
Oscar Mandel

Oscar Mandel
David Markson

David Markson
Carole Maso

Carole Maso
Christopher Middleton

Christopher Middleton
Breon Mitchell

Breon Mitchell
Gregory Mosher

Gregory Mosher
Denise Newman

Denise Newman
Marjorie Perloff

Marjorie Perloff
Gregory Rabassa

Gregory Rabassa

Philip Rahv
Raja Rao

Raja Rao
Delmore Schwartz

Delmore Schwartz
John Scott

John Scott
Peter Scott

Peter Scott
W.G. Sebald

W.G. Sebald
Richard Sieburth

Richard Sieburth
Andrew Sinclair

Andrew Sinclair
Theodore Spencer

Theodore Spencer
George Steiner

George Steiner
Walter Sutton

Walter Sutton
George Szirtes

George Szirtes
Nathaniel Tarn

Nathaniel Tarn
Colm Tóibín

Colm Tóibín
Charles Tomlinson

Charles Tomlinson
William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams
James Wood

James Wood

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."