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“It seems clear that Williams is the twentieth-century poet who has done most to influence our very conception of what poetry should do, and how much it does not need to.”

— Adam Kirsch, The New York Review of Books on William Carlos Williams's By Word of Mouth

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Filter: Anthology - (19 titles)

The New Directions <span>Anthology</span> Of Classical Chinese Poetry

The New Directions Anthology Of Classical Chinese Poetry

Once Again

Once Again

The Henry Miller Reader

The Henry Miller Reader

Thoughts On The East

Thoughts On The East

Confucius To Cummings

Confucius To Cummings

Selected Writings of Jules Supervielle

Selected Writings of Jules Supervielle

The Infinite Moment

The Infinite Moment

Forbidden Words

Forbidden Words

The William Carlos Williams Reader

The William Carlos Williams Reader

Primal Vision

Primal Vision

World Beat

World Beat

From Snow and Rock, From Chaos

From Snow and Rock, From Chaos

The Collected Poems Of Tennessee Williams

The Collected Poems Of Tennessee Williams

Modern Scottish Gaelic Poems

Modern Scottish Gaelic Poems

The Theatre Of Tennessee Williams, Vol. III

The Theatre Of Tennessee Williams, Vol. III

Birds, Beasts, and Seas

Birds, Beasts, and Seas

The Theatre Of Tennessee Williams, Vol. II

The Theatre Of Tennessee Williams, Vol. II

The Theatre Of Tennessee Williams, Vol. I

The Theatre Of Tennessee Williams, Vol. I

The Theatre Of Tennessee Williams, Vol. IV

The Theatre Of Tennessee Williams, Vol. IV

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."

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