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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: Beat Poetry - (45 titles)

World <span>Beat</span>

World Beat

Let Those Who Appear

Let Those Who Appear

Bending The Bow

Bending The Bow

The Happy Birthday Of Death

The Happy Birthday Of Death

An Accidental Autobiography

An Accidental Autobiography

<span>Poetry</span> As Insurgent Art

Poetry As Insurgent Art

Look Out

Look Out

The Ancient Rain: Poems 1956-1978

The Ancient Rain: Poems 1956-1978

Elegiac Feelings American

Elegiac Feelings American

In the Sierra

In the Sierra

Fragments Of Perseus

Fragments Of Perseus

Rebel Lions

Rebel Lions

A Far Rockaway Of The Heart

A Far Rockaway Of The Heart

Starting From San Francisco

Starting From San Francisco

September Blackberries

September Blackberries

Selected Poems of Michael McClure

Selected Poems of Michael McClure

Simple Eyes

Simple Eyes

Solitudes Crowded With Loneliness

Solitudes Crowded With Loneliness

Wild Dreams Of A New Beginning

Wild Dreams Of A New Beginning

Selected Poems of Kenneth Patchen

Selected Poems of Kenneth Patchen

The Secret Meaning Of Things

The Secret Meaning Of Things

Roots And Branches

Roots And Branches

Herald Of The Autochthonic Spirit

Herald Of The Autochthonic Spirit

World Outside The Window

World Outside The Window

Back Roads To Far Places

Back Roads To Far Places

The Opening Of The Field

The Opening Of The Field

Mysteriosos

Mysteriosos

One Hundred More Poems From The Chinese

One Hundred More Poems From The Chinese

In Quest Of Candlelighters

In Quest Of Candlelighters

How To Paint Sunlight

How To Paint Sunlight

Myths And Texts

Myths And Texts

Over All The Obscene Boundaries

Over All The Obscene Boundaries

More Classics Revisited

More Classics Revisited

Selected Poems of Kenneth Rexroth

Selected Poems of Kenneth Rexroth

An Autobiographical Novel

An Autobiographical Novel

Long Live Man

Long Live Man

Antechamber And Other Poems

Antechamber And Other Poems

Regarding Wave

Regarding Wave

Man - Fate

Man - Fate

Jaguar Skies

Jaguar Skies

Sun Rock Man

Sun Rock Man

Earth House Hold

Earth House Hold

The Collected Poems Of Kenneth Patchen

The Collected Poems Of Kenneth Patchen

A Coney Island of The Mind (Special Edition)

A Coney Island of The Mind (Special Edition)

European Poems And Transitions

European Poems And Transitions

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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